Education Portal: Bring the Campus Home

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Education Portal Bring the Campus Home
Just like Im writing this article from home,
there are a huge number of students who have to
study from home. Studying and teaching even
inside a school infrastructure can be
challenging. Previously, we have written about
how the l ogistics of teaching and learning can
be overcome with an e ducation portal. But now
the challenges we face are even more challenging.
Schools used to rely on class participation,
infrastructural facilities like lab, projectors,
library, etc. There used to be a structure to a
typical school or college day that would go
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about. COVID-19 has pronounced school as public
places, therefore shutting them down and sending
kids home. The greatest thing about learning at a
school is that everyone gets equal facilities.
The computers are all the same, the lunch hours
are the same, the library is accessible by all,
and there is internet access. Moving this entire
system home is of course difficult. The first
challenge will come in the form of internet
access, and the second in the form of a
computer. Even if we assume and these are
available, we have to assume they might not be
consistent. So what are the changes you can make
as an educational institution to make it possible
for your students to keep learning and your
faculty to keep teaching? Get a portal. If you
have a portal, modify it to do more than what it
is doing right now. It is no longer limited to
marking attendance and getting homework
assignments. This will mean getting the best of
the best. Lets do a deep dive into what the
portal can do for your institution during this
pandemic
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Video classes Classes have to be online. But not
all classes can take place at a single time for
everyone because your students may be in
different time zones. So professors also have to
have an interface where they can easily record
classes, live or otherwise, which can then be
stored. The class interface should also have a
chat option where students can ask questions and
teachers can answer them. This will bring
everyones experience a little closer to what
they used to have in the classrooms. Assignment
interface All assignments are now online. That
means it will require an interface that makes it
easy for students and professors to interact
with or collaborate on assignments. Simply
uploading a bunch of questions on a document and
getting answers to those is not going to be
enough. So this interface needs to be more
interactive. It should allow more formats, like
multiple choice questions, longer essays, pop
quizzes that are only available for certain hours
to ensure participation, etc.
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Office hours A number of professors have
dedicated office hours. This is where they have
one on one interaction with students. Here they
discuss their assignments, clear doubts that the
students have, and guide them in all their
academics. So the education portal needs to have
an interface specially designed for this. The
professor can feed in their office hours, and
the students can see those hours, and request an
appointment. The meeting can then be over a video
call or a phone call, which can be logged in to
the portal. Exams Since in person exams cannot
be held, there needs to be a digital interface
for it. This includes pop quizzes, open book
exams, and more. Certain measures can be put into
it like time limits for each question, only one
attempt, etc. can help ensure a smoother anti
cheating exam while maintaining the workflow of
the school at the same time. The education
portals strengths while in use on campus are
different than in remote use. While on campus, if
there was a flaw, it would be less
disadvantageous than if it happened while
everyone is accessing it remotely.
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As far as the administration of the school is
concerned, the portal handles all the things
remotely like it did on campus, minus things
like classroom allocation, etc. Professors and
admin staff should also have a special interface
built in that allows them to have meetings, to
keep things running smoothly. Apart from that,
this education portal needs to be lightweight
since everyone will not have the kind of internet
access that a school does. At CRMJetty, our team
can cater to academic institutions needs. You
can browse our previous blog, and even read the
whitepaper. Your custom online education portal
will thrive in our hands.
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