With COVID 19 expanding its footsteps all over the world, schools and colleges are depending on virtual classroom software to rekindle education. A virtual classroom is an online space where tutors and students can share their course materials, discuss and work together in real-time projects without being physically present. Here are a few points which highlight how a virtual classroom helps in ensuring continued education –
- Online learning
In this pandemic, we have seen many countries tackling the COVID spread by announcing nationwide lockdowns. This brought education to a halt. In such a scenario, virtual classroom apps have come to rescue to help children to continue their education without going out of their homes.
- Protection from coronavirus
Scientists are still doing research for finding a vaccine for COVID-19. The best way to get protection from this disease is to avoid coming physical contact with people. Getting your education via virtual classrooms serves your purpose perfectly. The lesser you meet other people, the lower are the chances of getting infected.
- Ensure easy learning
Many virtual classroom applications have highly upgraded tools that can be used by the teachers as well as students to get work done in a faster manner. Teachers also have the facility of uploading a video tutorial which can be recorded using the virtual classroom app, thereby enabling students to watch the classes anytime, anywhere.
How does virtual online classroom work?
Virtual classroom enables live interaction between various stakeholders of an educational institution such as the teachers and students, which can easily participate and interact with each other via online classes and other learning activities. Virtual classroom is a place where both the teachers and students simultaneously work together in an online environment. This ensures a smoother learning process for students.
In order to avail of the benefits of a virtual classroom, it is imperative for teachers and students to have a high speed internet connection, along with a computer system or a laptop which provides an enhanced user experience while attending virtual classes. Once the virtual classroom app gets downloaded in your device, students can join the live session on the pre-defined date and time specified by the institution.
The virtual classroom can be entered by joining the link provided or entering the code provided by the institution on the platform. Students also get the ability to interact with fellow classmates who are part of the live class, thereby providing the option of having a one-on-one interaction.
Apart from this, there are other features that set online class such as:
- Advanced interactive whiteboard
• Class scheduling
• Recurring tasks
• Collaborative code editor
• Secure live streaming
• Live screen sharing
• Polls and surveys
• Simple and easy administration
• Easy collaboration with the participants
• Functionality to add tests and assignments
• Advanced APIs and Plug-ins
• Easy moderation
How is a virtual classroom different from other video meeting apps?
After reading this article, if you are thinking about considering zoom as an alternative to a virtual classroom, then you could be wrong. Well, these video calling/video conferencing applications have a limitation on the number of users that can join a live session. Moreover, there are network/server issues which happen frequently in these free video meeting apps.
Having a virtual classroom ensures that there will be no network buffering. Also, the video conferences will be of high quality along with no server issues.
