Govt school kids can study online while staying at home
   Date :07-Apr-2020

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By Partha Sarathi Behera :
 
RAIPUR,
 
AMID COVID-19 lockdown, the Chhattisgarh Government has come up with the online education provision. For online studies, the students will have to log in the school education department portal cgschool.in and click the links to get started. Through this portal, solving of doubts or queries besides homework task assessment will be done interactively through mobile, video conferencing etc. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel will launch the online method of teaching within couple of days, Education Department Secretary Dr Alok Shukla told ‘The Hitavada’ on Monday.
 
“Though portal cgschool.in is already in the functioning we are adding some more features to the portal to make it more user-friendly so that student and teachers find it more convenient. The sole objective of the modification in the portal is to facilitate government school students with teachers’ guidance,” said Dr Shukla.
 
The government education portal will have all features like a commercial education portals but it would be free of cost for all unlike commercial education portal, emphasised Dr Shukla. Looking at uncertainty over reopening of schools in the near future, school education department has come up with this idea so that students studying in government schools across the state utilise their free time in study and cover their syllabus with the help of expert teachers, said Dr Shukla. Students can use mobile phone for online study, said Dr Shukla. If schools are reopen after lockdown on April 14 then also they would get only 10-15 days before summer vacation.
 
And it is again doubtful whether students would turn up for their classes amid threat of COVID-19, said Dr Shukla. Dr Shukla said that teachers would decide the timing that suits to them. There would be maximum 80 students in the class of one teacher, he said. Teachers would upload videos related to various topics and images to make the online teaching easy. Teachers would also give homework task to students and in turn students can upload the image of solved questions on the portal for correction by the teachers. Besides, teachers will have interactive essions with students, said Dr Shukla. Initially, the online teaching would be held in Hindi medium as it would take two-three months to introduce English medium.
 
Asked about students residing in remote areas of Chhattisgarh especial in naxal-hit Bastar region where mobile network is weak, Dr Shukla said, “This issue is also in our mind. We would sort-out the issue in the coming days. Let the teaching begin.” So far 200 teachers and 150 students were registered for online study, said Dr Shukla. DIET principals asked to prepare practice books: State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has issued circular to the principals of District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) to prepare practice books for students of Class III, V, VIII and X, based on the pattern of questions asked in the National Talent Examination. The principals have been asked to link all academic staff through Telegram Group and ask them to get ready for work.