Abstract:
COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease of 2019) was slowly realised by the
whole World during February/March 2020. As soon as the cases started
increasing in India, the government circulated the order that all the
schools and colleges should stop their physical classes till the situation is
under control. At first, it was closed for a very few days but when the
situation worsen and India realised that it is not going to end soon, then
some schools and colleges started thinking about some alternative for
education, and there it all started - The Online Teaching for all.
It was very difficult to handle a big population of learners and teachers
to make them deal with the online education. The factors involved in
Online Education were - devices, internet and contacts (email
ids/numbers of each other). Various schools and colleges started
collecting the email-ids from all the learners and teachers. Also they
tried to find out the best Tools/Applications that can be used by the
teachers for teaching online, so that the tools/applications are easy to use
for each and every subject teacher, as well as the best tool/application for
learners, so that every student is able to access that particular
tool/application. Many schools and colleges started taking classes online
on Zoom/Cisco Webex initially as these were providing a lot of features
which were very useful for online class, e.g. mute button (the host can
mute the participants), chat box (for asking doubts), whiteboard facility
(participants can also annotate along with the host with due permission),
etc., then Microsoft Teams and Google Meet became popular, and then
there were many more applications. All these applications have Video
conferencing ability and white boards to doodle and many more features.
And for other features like assessment, they were using many different
tools/applications.
