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Sanjay Kumar Mallick, Principal, SNSVM Ghatsila, Jharkhand : Started new technological journey

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During the first week of March 2020, in the National Capital, schools were closed as a precautionary measure to prevent the possibility of the spread of COVID-19 amongst school children. The total numbers of COVID- 19 cases in the country were 30 at that time. Since then spread of cases, awareness, precautions, and measures to stop the COVID-19 started accelerating.  It’s been two months now, COVID-19 became a pandemic and has impacted the lives of people around the world. Transportation, traveling, ways of doing business and, new rules on public gatherings has changed the daily routines of millions across the globe.

We closed our school on 21 March, 2020 following the guidelines of the Government of Jharkhand. Fortunately, we were over with annual examinations, corrections works, results, and parent-teacher meetings (PTM) before the lockdown started. When we sensed that it is going to be long before we open our school for normal and formal teaching in the traditional classroom setup, we need to do something different. We at Sant Nandlal Smriti Vidya Mandir (SNSVM) strongly felt that children cannot be left at home without guidance and significant learning during this lockdown.

Discontinuity in education and learning can deeply impact students’ life. The very thought of this made us think to look for alternate ways and means, knowing that remote learning cannot create the same effect as in the school environment. But now it is becoming a necessity for the best interest of schools, teachers, students, and parents.

We started our new technological journey just after a week of school’s closure.  The whole process we adopted for online classes can be shown as below:

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In this article my focus will be on – Online Examination, because entire processes detailing of online classes is voluminous and beyond the scope of this article. After three weeks of teaching online, we decided to interact with parents using the same online video platform to know their views on the effectiveness of our efforts. We sent the request messages to parents for PTM and reminded them 2-3 times.  Parents’ attendance (94-96%) and responses were overwhelming.

In the very PTM we apprised parents that we will seek your feedback through Google Form and similar technology will be used for conducting online examinations.  They have happily accepted the idea and encouraged us that examination through on-line mode will make students more serious about their studies, online classes, and assignments. We were in great eustress. More than 1000+ students, classes IV-XII, 06 subjects up to the secondary section and 07 subjects in senior secondary section, was a voluminous task.

The challenges:

1. Preparation of the question papers MCQ type having single correct option, multiple correct options from lessons so far taught.
2. All teachers are not technological sound to create Question papers using Google Form.
3. Making Question papers in Standardized format.
4. Examination Time Table.
5. Invigilation duties to ensure fair examination.
6. Evaluation work.
7. Who will do what?

Firstly, we created a well-defined structure and a core team for this online examination, which is entirely different from the existing examination system we have in our school.

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Core team: Members of the core team were technologically sound, having laptop, good internet connection, and young, energetic and willing to walk extra-miles. Team consisted of-

1. Principal
2. Observers-09
3. Technical Assistant-02
4. Coordinator-02

Flow of work:

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Processes we followed:

  • We created a new email only for online examination and used the drive for easy access and storage. Mail-id was shared with the paper setter to submit the question papers after HOD’s approval. Only the Principal and observers were authorized to check the mails and its contents.
  • Conducted several meetings with teachers and core team to clarifications, progresses and feedbacks.
  • Observers were given the training to prepare Question papers using Google form
  • Observers received the QPs from the teachers in the mail created for the purpose and prepared the question papers using Google form.
  • Technical assistants ensured that QPs are complete in all respect and released the link to observers for verifications and onward transmission to Class teachers on the given exam date just 05 minutes before.
  • Parents were requested to act as an invigilator to ensure no unfair means by their wards.
  • Coordinators numbers were shared with the parents to contact incase of any difficulties, clarification and suggestions during examinations.
  • After all examinations, observers prepared the result sheets and technical assistant uploaded the result in the school webpage and SMS sent to the parents about the results

Messages to parents:

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Instructions to students:

• Fill up your personal details carefully.
• All questions are compulsory.
• Try to submit the paper in 40-45 minutes.
• You are allowed to submit only once, make sure that you have correctly attempted all the questions before  submission.
• Make sure you clicked on submit button to successfully complete the test.
• New students must contact their class teacher for the admission number.
• Form will be active for two hours only. For session-I 10.05AM to 12.05PM and for session-II 12.05PM to 2PM.
• For any difficulties while appearing the test please contact Mr. SR Dutta and Mr. Anup Kumar Patnaik.

Duties and responsibilities of Observer

1. Ensure that every class teacher is having a Question Paper link for paper-I by 09.45 AM for session-1.
2. Ensure every class teachers release the Question Paper link to their respective class group with necessary instructions by 10.05 AM
3. Students can take test from 10.05 AM. Students must submit the form to make it a valid test.
4. Inform Class teachers that Question Paper link will be active for 02 hours only.
5. Ensure through class teachers that all students are appearing in the test.
6. At 10.35 AM check the response sheet and apprise Class teachers about the attendance of the class. Inform the names who appeared the test to the class teachers.
7. At 11.35 AM check the response sheet once again and apprise Class teachers about the attendance of the class. Inform the names who appeared the test to the class teachers.
8. Ensure that every class teacher is having Question Paper link for paper-II by 11.45 AM for session-3.
9. Students can take tests from 12.05 PM. Students must submit the form to make it a valid test.
10. At 12.35 PM check the response sheet and apprise Class teachers about the attendance of the class. Inform the names who appeared the test to the class teachers.
11. At 1.35 PM check the response sheet once again and apprise Class teachers about the attendance of the class. Inform the names who appeared the test to the class teachers.
12. At 2 PM, prepare the report in Google Form with help of Class teachers in the given format and mail to Principal

Conclusions: “We don’t grow when things are easy and we are in a comfortable state, we grow when we face challenges”

We are so happy and satisfied with our efforts and outcomes that we have decided to continue online examinations for our Periodic/Half-yearly/Annual examination in our school.

Sanjay Kumar Mallick, an accomplished educationist with a career span of thirty years. He brims with creative exuberance and an industrious zeal. A Research Scholar, Master in Computer Applications, Master in Psychology, Post Graduate Diploma in Management (HR), and B. Ed.  Mallick envisions education as the right blend of academic acumen and creative effervescence. He is a Psychologist, Motivator, CBSE City Coordinator (Training), CBSE Master Trainer, CBSE Resource Person, Author, Certified Career Counselor, and a Special Need Educator.

MCC begins NEET PG 2020 second counselling

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NEET PG 2020 counselling

In a major move, NEET PG 2020 second counselling registration process begins from today. Students who qualified in the NEET PG exam and wish to participate in the second round of counselling can register for the process between June 3 and June 9, 2020.

Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) will process seat allotment from June 10 to June 11, 2020 and will announce result for second round seat allotment on June 12, 2020.

The payment facility for counselling registration will be available till 12 pm on June 9, 2020.

Candidates registering for the second counselling will have time lock their choices from June 4 to June 9, 2020.

Students who are allotted a seat in the second round of counselling will be allowed to report at the allotted college between June 12 and June 18, 2020.

Seats which remain vacant due to non-reporting and non-joining of seats by 6 pm on June 18 will be transferred to State Quota and will be available for NEET PG counselling being held by respective state authorities.

For the first round of counselling, MCC introduced the provision of online reporting for students who could not do it in person due to the covid-19 lockdown announced nation-wide.

Renowned academician Dr Pritam Singh passes away

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Dr Pritam Singh

Dr Pritam Singh a renowned academician and institutional builder passed away due to cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Gurugram. Dr Singh was 78 and is survived by his two sons Dr Vikas Singh , Dr Vipul Singh , his daughter , wife and many grandchildren.

Dr Singh was conferred with prestigious Padma Shi award. He is credited with turning around the fortunes of the Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurugram and also IIM Lucknow. In his 45 years of the career, he mentored around 200 CEOs and organized 50 board level workshops. He stamped his perspectives on policy and government issues that surround both management education and corporate.

Dr Singh was also a member of the PMs empowered panel for selection of eminence institutions of India. He authored several reputed books. He was a globally sought after speaker and has addressed various Indian and global audiences including Chambers of Commerce in various countries.

CBSE issues guidelines for Class 10 and 12 Exams

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CBSE issues guidelines

Providing relief to students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released notification for the conduct of class 10th only for northeast district Delhi and class 12th examinations, which are scheduled to be held from 1 July to 15 July 2020.

Earlier, the CBSE datesheet for both class 10 and 12 were already released. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said it will let class 10 and 12 students who travelled to their homes during lockdown to write pending board examinations from their home states or districts.

The development came amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown, which was imposed by the government on 25 Macrh, 2020 in order to combat Coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The pending class 10 and 12 board exams will be conducted at 15,000 centres across the country instead of 3,000 centres planned earlier.

CBSE has now released a scheme to conduct the examinations and has pointed out that examinations will be conducted in the respective schools of the candidates. It also added that, “In each district, where CBSE is having affiliated schools, one school will be fixed as nodal examination centre for those candidates who shifted from their earlier district.”

The education board also mentioned that no examination centre will be permitted inside a containment zone and those whose schools fall into the zone will be allotted a centre outside it.

Melvano provides free coaching for JEE & NEET aspirants

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In the wake of COVID-19 lockdown, the govt has imposed a lockdown across the country. The nationwide lockdown has put India’s education system in uncertainty. Students in India are facing multiple issues including incomplete syllabus, delay in exams, unavailability of study materials, lack of guidance and many more. Due to social distancing, learning through a classroom setup will be hugely affected. The crisis has led to a communication gap between the students and the professors. The only potential option left to overcome this hurdle is through E-learning platforms.

An IIT Madras startup, Melvano is helping students pursue their preparations for competitive entrance exams like JEE Main, JEE Advanced and NEET. Melvano is an artificial intelligence-based learning app that is radically transforming the face of learning by providing adaptive practice interface for millions of aspirants in this lockdown.

This app has student-centred approach that guides students, based on their individual learning needs. It uses artificial intelligence to identify the candidates’ strengths and weaknesses, based on which learners are given a set of important questions, solved examples and the study material for effective learning and thorough practice. Users can appear for a mock test or the ‘daily live test’ to gain experience of the examination environment and can keep a track of their progress with the help of the performance report available on the app.

Taran Singh

Melvano’s CEO, Taran Singh, an IIT Madras alumnus said “India has an enormous lower to middle- class student population. It pains me to see parents taking burdensome loans with heavy interest rates, just to provide coaching to their children. Melvano was curated to tackle this very problem and help students achieve their dreams. The app is completely free for all students so parents need not worry about financial issues.”

“This year, a large number of students have opted for E-learning as the JEE Main & JEE Advanced exams are now completely held online. Since the lockdown, we are experiencing a 2x surge in the questions practiced on our app. Students are now getting familiar and comfortable with technology- driven preparations. Our app provides aspirants with personalized tools to help track their daily performance. The added advantage of E-learning is that it gives students the freedom to learn at any time of the day as per their schedule”, Singh added.

Singh also said “E-learning platforms also make it easy for parents to keep a daily track of their child’s performance as opposed to traditional learning, where parents are clueless about the day to day developments. Currently, many E-learning platforms are opting for Gamification to increase the student’s interest in studies. As students are experiencing the benefits and comfort of E-learning, I believe it will be extremely hard for aspirants to go back to their old routines once the Coronavirus issues subdue. Currently, Indian engineering and medical aspirants are around 5 million out of which 2 million students opt for online learning. Melvano had already got a good chunk of 5% market share, and aims to cross 1 million students by the end of 2020’’

Melvano, born out of Nirmaan Labs, IIT Madras, was awarded with the prestigious Sri Chinmay Deodhar Award by IIT Madras for the ‘Most Innovative Project’. The startup has raised Angel funding and is currently looking to raise another round of investment to scale their user base.

This year two Melvano students were in the Top 1 percentile of JEE Main, with Sarthak Diwan scoring 99.968 percentile (around All India Rank 200).

Interested engineering and medical aspirants can download the Melvano app by clicking here

CBSE gives options to students for pending Class 10 and 12 Exams

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CBSE Class 10 and 12 Exams

In the prevailing condition of the spread of the COVID19 pandemic, the CBSE has decided to conduct the remaining examination in a safe manner and have opted for two ways to conduct the July examinations.

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released notice on pending CBSE Board Exam 2020 for Class 10, 12. The official notice is available on the official site-cbse.nic.in.

CBSE has decided to conduct the examination in two ways- first, the examinations would now be conducted in the respective schools of the candidates instead of the exam center already allotted and secondly the Board will allow change of examination center in respect of candidates who have shifted and are residing in some other district in the country than the place of their school.

To make the change in the examination center both the regular and the private candidates should meet the eligibility criteria. Candidates will have to in other districts to apply for exam center change as a change of center in the same district will not be allowed.

The change of exam center will be accepted by CBSE only through the schools of the candidates who want to apply for the center change. Schools will have to contact their students to know whether they have shifted to some other district and would they like to avail the facility of examination center change or not.

Entrance exam for AIIMS postponed, check on aiimsexams.org

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AIIMS Entrance exam

In the wake of Corona pandemic, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has postponed the entrance examinations for the July-August 2020 Academic Session. The entrance examinations scheduled to be conducted on June 5, 2020, have been postponed to be conducted on July 11, 2020, according to the notification.

AIIMS conducts entrance examinations for the AIIMS Fellowship Programme; DM, MCh and MD (hospital administration); BSc (post-basic); MSc (nursing) and MD, MS, DM (6 years), MCh (6 years) and MDS programmes.

The official notification of the revised examination schedule is available on the official website – aiimsexams.org.

The admit card for the AIIMS Entrance Examination will be available on the official website for download from June 3, 2020. Candidates will be able to download the AIIMS entrance admit card by entering the login details in the admit card link.

According to the details mentioned on the official notification the examination cities will be allotted to the candidates based on the choice and the availability of the centre. The institution has also mentioned that the advisories or guidelines of the government with regard to social distancing and sanitization will be followed at all the AIIMS examination centres.

UP govt cancels e-bids for tablets and school bags

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UP govt

In the wake of novel Coronavirus pandemic, the UP government has cancelled the bidding of procurement of 1.6 lakh tablet computers and 1.60 cr school bags which were supposed to be distributed among the school children in primary and upper primary schools.

The tablet computers were for principals of various schools, to keep tap on attendance of students, teachers, mid-meal meal scheme and other government schemes.

The e-bid for tablets closed on May 28 as only one company bid for it. Around Rs 150 cr were allocated for purchase of 1.6 lakh tablets by the UP govt.

However, the UP govt has said re-bidding will be done for tablets as major firms were unable to bid due to the lockdown.

The e-bidding of school bags cancelled as the govt was not ready to compromise on quality of bags provided to students.

According to reports, without providing specifications of bags to bidders, the govt opened the tender which left bidders confused.

The govt will again open the bidding for schools bags very soon.

Elets Exclusive | Amneet P Kumar: Haryana ensures e-learning for students

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Elets Exclusive | Amneet P Kumar

Around the world, schools in over 190 countries are closed to protect against the spread of Coronavirus, affecting the education of nearly 1.5 billion children.

With the imposition of lockdown, normal life has been thrown out of gear, affecting school-going children and their schedules. While virtual classrooms and online classes are back in focus, another non-traditional method, Home Schooling is being discussed vigorously, especially when homes have become learning centres.

In some parts of the world, it will be down to parents to keep their child’s education going as best they can. But digital technologies are increasingly being used to deliver lessons to children at home.

In this crisis, the government has come up with e-learning program. Many ed-tech firms have tried to leverage the occasion by offering free online classes or attractive discounts on e-learning modules. These measures have been met with overwhelming response by students with some startups witnessing as high as 25% uptick in e-learning. Remote learning seems a viable solution to students during this time as they offer convenient, on -the- go and affordable access to lessons. E-learning also comes as an interesting and interactive alternative as compared to classroom teaching.

Elets Technomedia and digitalLEARNING Magazine organized a webinar on “Crisis Management in the times of Covid 19 – Initiatives by Haryana to make students study at home” with Amneet P Kumar, Secretary, Department of School Education and Director General Secondary education, Government of Haryana. She shared her views over the steps Haryana govt is taking to ensure education for students.

 

During the webinar Amneet P Kumar said “We have around 20 lakh students in Haryana. Around 8 lakh books have been issued to students from the books bank. We also make sure that all these students up to 8th standard are being given mid-day meal. All the services provided to schools will be continuously provided to students even if they are at home.”

She emphasized on the usage of technology in admission and said Haryana is trying for 100 percent admissions through online this year.

Over digital education, she said “We have linked our lectures and classes with DD, D2H for students. There is a timetable for all the students. Once in a week, the timetable is shared and three times a day the sessions are being conducted on TV so that students can attend the class at the time convenient to them. The govt is trying to rope in other OTT platforms to provide study materials to students.”

For midday meal – Firstly, ration money for the students calculated and ration is being delivered to students. Secondly, the cooking money was calculated and distribution is being done to every child’s Aadhar based accounts. Dry ration is also being supplied to families of govt school students. The ration is being delivered at their homes, she added.

We understand that many govt students do not have access to the internet, laptops, smartphones, YouTube or such platforms to receive content. Therefore TV was one medium which we used to reach all the students. Now lakhs of students in the state are receiving online lectures three times a day, she added.

She also added, Earlier, children were wasting time watching other content on TV but now they are watching online lectures and coping up with their studies. This is the common feedback we got from parents since the lockdown started.

She hailed the role of technology in the education sector. A lot of credit goes to the Ministry of Broadcasting and Additional Chief Secretary Mahaveer Singh for broadcasting Education content on Doordarshan so that students can be connected through TV, she said.

There is an organization Pratham, they work with us extensively. We have a call centre and we take regular feedback from parents about their children. Teacher was nowhere in picture as all the content streaming on TV was prepared for students. So we asked teachers to contact students through WhatsApp to take feedback from them about the content. So now at the end of the day, we have a map of Haryana marked with colour codes displaying how many students attended the programme, she said.

We have been also monitoring, WhatsApp groups and call centres, so that quality of content must be given to students. Our teachers contributed around Rs 50 cr from their salaries for COVID relief fund, she added.

JAC declares Class 9 result 2020, check on jacresults.com

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JAC 9th Result 2020 Declared

After waiting for many days, students can finally check their Jharkhand 9th result 2020. The Jharkhand Academic Council has released the JAC Class 9 result 2020. Students can check their results on official site jacresults.com/jac.jharkhand.gov.in. The marksheets and certificates of JAC 9th result 2020 will be made available later.

Around 97% of students who appeared for the Class 9 Exam have passed the examination with flying colours in the JAC 9th Result 2020. The total number of students who had appeared of the exam was 4,17,030 of which 4,06,293 students have cleared the JAC 9th Class Exam taking the overall pass percentage to 97.42%.

JAC also plans to announce Jharkhand 8th Class Result 2020 and JAC 11th Class Result 2020 as well by next week.

In the view of the Coronavirus pandemic and the risk of infection for students, if they venture out of their homes to check Jharkhand 9th Result 2020 online; the board will be declaring the results only via website.

Steps to check JAC 9th Result 2020:

-Visit official website – jacresults.com

-Find and Click on 9th Class Result 2020

-Input roll number and other details asked on the website

-JAC 9th Class Result 2020 will be displayed on the screen

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