COVID-19 Lockdown: Assam board to provide classes through Youtube

The Board of Secondary Assam has announced that it has started online classes through Youtube for class 10 students in wake of ongoing nationwide coronavirus lockdown.

With the uncertainty looming around the re-opening of the schools, the Board of Secondary Assam (SEBA) has started streaming classroom lessons through Youtube for class 10 students. 

The SEBA Examination Controller, Nayan Jyoti Sarmah, said that the board has taken this initiative in support with the SIQUES EDUAID LLP Data center and this will help students from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as well as the curriculum in both boards are the same apart from the literature and social science subjects.

To get the Youtube link, students need to send a WhatsApp message typing SEBA to the following number 9477994779. The board has also uploaded the course content on Youtube, to help students preparing for class 10 examination boards for the next academic year, Sarmah said.

He also said that the students can learn lessons in phases and the course content, lessons for class 12 are available in both Assamese and English on Youtube. The curriculum will be available in the Bodo medium and will be prepared by using 3D technology to make the lessons enjoyable for the students. 

The board has reviewed all the course content uploaded on Youtube to ensure all the lessons given are as per the prescribed syllabus.

Although the school heads have created WhatsApp groups in order to teach the students during the lockdown period it has not covered the larger set of students who have not used the instant messaging App. 

The Assam Board had conducted its term-end exams in December 2019 and had begun the new session for students, before the COVID-19 had struck and schools were shut. 

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