There is some great news for lecturers and college students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologies (KNUST) as the establishment goes digital with all tutorial get the job done.
College students can now access the e-studying system, recognized as Digital Academic Place for totally free.
Originally used only by the Institute of Distant Learning, it is been upgraded from 1 performing attribute to nine, with potential for over 65,000 learners.
JoyNews’ KNUST correspondent, Barkisu Mohammed experiences.
At an Academic Board Conference on May possibly 4, 2020, there was a conclusion for finish-of-semester evaluation to be based on university student regular score of three to five composed assignments for every program.
It, consequently, became incumbent on the college administration to make on the net learning quickly accessible.
The virtual classroom aspect now has, in addition, On the web Examinations, Video Chat and Conferencing as nicely as Webroom convention.
Other individuals are Electronic Information Methods, Prempeh the Next Library Catalogue Institutional Repository, and Switch It In.
Deputy Director at the Institute of Distance Finding out, Dr Ahmed Agyapong in KNUST states new servers and functions have been mounted to facilitate the transition to the virtual class.
“Because of the corona virus outbreak main to the subsequent closure of the universities we resolved to digitise our system and then also convey our pupils to our virtual classroom to find out, in advance of then it was applied by only the distant discovering pupils but it grew to become needed that we migrate all the typical learners to also have their scientific tests or total the semester on the net,’’ he mentioned.
“So we experienced to set up new servers mainly because the previous servers have been not big adequate to accommodate about sixty-five thousand students of KNUST. Now you are going to understand that we have introduced the whole university to our virtual place and we have now 9 functions just before then we had only the digital classroom. As soon as you are a university student and you have your username and password you just log on, anything is there for learners for cost-free,” Dr Agyapong included.
The addition of Prempeh II Library to the facilities on campus will come, most likely, with even bigger pleasure.
Dr Henry Kofi Mensah is Head of KNUST Department of Human Useful resource and Organisational Progress.
“We also have the digitised library of the university, we selected to digitise it since in the corona time period we do not require to cramp ourselves and evaluate different textbooks in the library so we assumed that we will digitise this area wherever pupils anywhere they find on their own will be able to evaluate it with their qualifications,” he described.
“We also have the transform-it-in, it’s a plagiarism software package due to the fact college student will be publishing assignments and mainly because we want to ensure that our learners are ethical and they respect all tutorial necessity we have spot this so that learners can textual content the extent of similarities in between their function and other peoples get the job done,” Dr. Mensah stressed.
Meanwhile, lecturers who are unfamiliar with the digital class system are undergoing training to allow them accessibility it with ease.
“Those lecturers who were being not on the length finding out method were being not acquainted with the method so when all others joined there was the want to organise training, so much we have been equipped to educate about two hundred lecturers so that they will be capable interact with their students. Additional lecturers will be trained at their ease, even all those who have previously been familiar with the virtual course can be part of the education so that they can up their skills,” stated Dr Ahmed.
Prof. Samuel Sackey is a lecturer at the Mechanical Engineering Department and also Director at the Technology Consultancy Centre.
He lauded the new system though he is concerned about community troubles pupils confront.
“The devices we have right here are consumer helpful, the only problems we experience sometimes is when you have to generate anything then there are issues. Often the students cannot see really plainly what you’re producing.
Other instances, they really don’t see anything at all at all. Often the composing becomes blurred so these days I do compose them and include things like them in the slides.”
“The difficulties that the learners face have to do with their have network at their end. Not prolonged in the past one pupils identified as me and instructed me his slides have gotten stuck they have been not moving alongside with mine but other college students were being not getting that problems their slides were being going similar with mine so we experienced to notify that particular person to examine his network,” he recalled.
Senior Lecturer at the Division of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Emmanuel Anto, could not concur far more.
The only problem experienced to do with the world-wide-web connectivity but other than that there is no challenge from my end,” he pointed out.
The Guardian newspaper in the Uk previously this calendar year described The London College of Economics experienced announced an ambitious prepare to have all undergraduate and postgraduate classes “delivered online” by March for the relaxation of the tutorial yr.
