LAHORE: The Government College University (GCU) on Sunday held a digital seminar on online teaching, which is going to resume at the university from Monday (today).

University’s senior club members interacted with Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asghar Zaidi and members of the newly formed Directorate of Information Technology to seek information about various aspects of online teaching. The seminar was broadcasted on the varsity’s social media accounts.

Prof Zaidi mentioned the four-dimension strategy comprising teachers’ training, preparation of approved online-ready courses, adoption of the Learning Management System (LMS) and developing procedures for online classes to be ready and accessible for students.

The GCU has established its LMS where lectures, assignments, grades and students’ attendance would be uploaded and under the policy, students would also have to submit and upload their assignments to this system.

Prof Zaidi said that more than 10,000 students and teachers were currently being registered with the LMS while new courses, class schedules and other academic calendar dates also updated. If students faced any issue related to the LMS, they could contact their relevant teachers who were in touch with the department’s IT coordinator.

He also briefed students about the minimum attendance requirement, and assessment policy to be based on assignments and open-book examinations. The students who did not have access to the internet would be required to get in touch with their teachers.

He said teachers could mark the attendance of students having connectivity issues by giving them different lecture-related assignments.

Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2020