Baiyun district promotes online teaching program

To help contain the novel coronavirus epidemic, Baiyun district in Southwest China’s Guizhou province has taken firm measures to encourage online education, according to local officials.

They said it has organized primary and secondary schools to formulate individual teaching plans and to make full use of the internet to create special education subjects for students’ online learning.

To develop the online platforms, Baiyun is requiring teachers transcribe their courses for online presentation,  assign homework and give online feedback.

Online teaching for grade 12 students started on Feb 3, with more than 3,400 students from five senior high schools in the district starting the class at home.

Other grades of students also gradually started online classes from Feb 10.

According to the feedback from schools, except for a small number of students in remote rural areas having no access to the internet, over 99 percent of the primary and secondary schools in the district have participated in the online courses.

For students having trouble in watching the online classes, because of a lack of access to television, Baiyun district has acted, with the help of donations of TVs by broadcast television network companies.

More than 50 households have benefited from the TV donations. Baiyun had cooperated with local network companies providing door-to-door installation services.

For students who miss the live online class, Baiyun is organizing them to watch teaching videos to catch up.