Due to this COVID-19 situation, most of the things that we do will be change into the online platform. And surprisingly most of us can handle meetings, talk, and classes through online platforms. To quote our Prime Minister in his speech on 10 April 2020, he did mention about the “new normal”. Everything will be new to us and we must do our best to cope with this new normal situation. Hence, one of the new normal that I as an educator need to face is the online internship supervision. One of my internship students has presented about her supervision last Thursday (16 April 2020). The presentation was conducted through Google Meet along with her company supervisors.   Although the presentation was conducted on an online platform, I feel that she has done good enough at the company and I got enough information regarding her internship. The company’s supervisors were very satisfied with the student and asked the university to send many more students to their company. haha. It is actually really good to have online supervision like this since it can save costs as well as save time to travel to the students’ internship company. I think this kind of supervision can be continued even after this COVID-19 situation. If we need to check on the site of students’ workplaces, we can ask the students to make a proper video to be presented to us, the University supervisor. Here I are some photos during the online internship supervision 🙂

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Kesinambungan dari post saya yang lepas, banyak institusi pengajaran telah mula mengendalikan sesi pengajaran dan pembelajaran dalam talian dengan menggunakan pelbagai platform. Bagi pelajar yang tidak mempunyai masalah dengan talian internet mereka, para pengajar kebanyakkannya akan menggunakan platform yang membenarkan pengajaran secara segerak (synchronous) seperti Google Meet, Webex, Zoom dan BigBlueButton. Manakala bagi pelajar-pelajar yang mempunyai masalah talian internet, ramai pengajar yang mengambil inisiatif untuk menggunakan aplikasi media sosial yang telah biasa digunakan oleh para pelajar seperti FB live, Instagram live, Whatsapp dan Telegram. Dalam keadaan ini, para pengajar perlu menjadi kreatif untuk menggunakan kesemua platform ini demi menyampaikan ilmu kepada para pelajar. Akan tetapi, para pengajar akan ada masalah untuk memastikan pelajar betul-betul mendapat ilmu yang ingin disampaikan. Salah satu cara yang boleh digunakan adalah dengan memberikan kuiz untuk menguji ilmu yang telah dipelajari. Jadi, bagi para pengajar yang menggunakan Telegram sebagai medium pengajaran, disini saya ingin kongsikan tutorial untuk membuat ‘polling’ atau kuiz dalam telegram.

Klik disini untuk menonton tutorial tersebut.

Selamat mencuba dan semoga membantu!

Since the spreading of Novel Coronavirus, all lecturers in the public university were mostly encouraged to conduct the class through an online platform. However, current facilities that we have still cannot afford to handle too many online classes at the same time. In regard to this matter, many online classes face difficulties through online learning sessions such as lagging in the video and audio. It is quite disturbing for both lecturers and students thus it makes teaching and learning sessions become less effective and might lead to frustration. Hence, here are some tips for lecturers and students in order to have smooth online learning sessions :

1. The lecturer might want to ask students not to share their webcam during the lecture. Only ask the students to share their webcam during the presentation or question and answer sessions.
2. The lecturer can also ask the students to mute themselves during the lecture sessions. Only turn them on when they need to speak or present during the session.
3. The lecturer might want to segment the class into several sections. Lecturers might want to take a break for 10 to 15 minutes before continue to the next sessions so that the online learning session will not be too long and lagged towards the end.
4. The host might turn off the recording during the online class and just focus on the live session.
5. If the online platform you used allowed you to upload the slide presentation to the platform, it is suggested to separate your slides into several small parts and upload it one by one.
6. The lecturer can also pre-record the lectures and upload it to Youtube then share the link at the online platform during the online learning session. Therefore, lecturers just need to facilitate the learning process during the session while replying to students’ questions, chat, and discussion.

That’s all from me. All the best in conducting teaching and learning sessions using online learning platforms. I hope it does not make you become stress and frustrated 😀

Here some pictures of me conducting online class with my students 🙂
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