APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University releases guidelines for conducting online classes

Online sessions should start at 8:30 am and shouldn’t go beyond five hours. “However, the extra one-hour session is permitted daily for ‘honours’ and ‘minors’.

The APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University has released a set of academic and general guidelines to be followed by all the colleges affiliated with it while conducting online classes. As per the guidelines, the classes should be a mix of live, pre-recorded and discussion sessions. Pre-recorded videos should be short, preferably of a 15-minute duration.

Online sessions should start at 8:30 am and shouldn’t go beyond five hours. “However, the extra one-hour session is permitted daily for ‘honours’ and ‘minors’. There should be a break of 10minutes between sessions.

KTU has also asked all the affiliated institutions to make sure all the relevant COVID-19 protocols are strictly followed. It said the institutions should arrange professional counselling to ensure mental health, psychological support and well-being of students and staff.
KTU also urged colleges to encourage developments and innovations to address Covid-19 related medical, material and logistic problems, with the support from professional bodies, innovation centers, etc.
The weekly schedule for online classes should be published on the college website. Classes for the final semester shall be continued as per the published academic calendar. Classes for other semesters shall be conducted from Monday to Friday.
Faculty shall promote ‘flip-classroom’ method by conducting live discussions/interactions based on the pre-recorded videos or learning materials already provided.
Students should be given simple class tasks, which can be completed in a short duration, based on the already engaged class sessions. This may help improve the attainment of the expected course outcomes. However, this work shall not be treated as assignment.

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