The trials and tribulations we encounter in Online Classes

It's been a year and a half or so since the COVID-19 pandemic started, and this has to a great degree necessitated the use of online classes.

Now lads and lasses lets get real for a moment here, online classes are probably the least seriously taken things in the world. Most of us are guilty of that and if you are so virtuous so as to actually be sincere throughout the whole thing...you're weird T_T .

Online classes are exceedingly easy to slack off in, the teacher's relative unease in using technology from anywhere past 2005 coupled with the student's increasing capability to circumvent said classes contribute to this. This is where the underestimation of teenagers and children in general really starts to bite the teaching staff in the back. 

I've heard tales, legends even, of mythical crusaders who have gone semesters without ever actually showing their face or speaking a word. Teachers can't really do much other than threaten to complain to the parents and this lack of consequence spurs these heroes to greater heights. Zoom calls crashed, Loud obnoxious music distorted to
 the hilt played in meetings and in general pandemonium ensued.

How could the teachers possibly retaliate? Well they enacted a policy of "cam on or get kicked". A simple yet devastating measure...which got toppled in a matter of hours by clever folks who set still images of their face as their cam footage. However the rest of us mere mortals still have to contend with this entire deal.

It's an archaic procedure despite its seeming modern roots, the teachers tell you to switch your cams on which I suppose is fair enough if they want to make sure you're learning, and not playing Donkey Kong Country! on the side, but what is the POINT OF HAVING CAMS ON WHEN SCREENSHARING. It makes no sense to keep cams on during screenshares because they can't see you,then what's the point! 

One might counter with: "Oh well the camera being on is incentive for students to not slack off!". Au contraire mon ami! In reality its exceedingly easy to slack off with cam on as far as you are skilled at being stone faced.

I tested this out myself in a particularly boring English class where even the teacher was yawning half of the time but she still insisted on cams, I got Doom loaded up and played through the entire first episode and half of the second episode and no one was the wiser. It just goes on to show that in such a scenario there is no way to ensure that a person is playing complete attention unless the student themselves are sincere to the hilt.

Another particularly vexing effect of Online Classes is the fact that we still have to write notes which makes no sense considering the fact that we can just grab soft copies of em on our pc's and print them out. They expect you to write metric tons of notes and also study daily portions  -_-

Well I intended to end the post here but I just got PTSD of a certain habit people have picked up in recent times.

So here's a PSA: STOP REFERRING TO COVID-19 LIKE ITS YOUR NEIGHBOUR NEXT DOOR. If I got a rupee for people calling COVID-19  "Ole'rona" or "Rony" I would almost be able to buy a bottle of Corona(the beer). Its a frigging infectious disease enough with trying to normalise it.

Well lads and lasses that's it for now, I've to go back to my online classes(har har har).

Try to stay sane
Toodles!
Aby


Comments

  1. Tunes Of LifeJune 30, 2021 at 12:50 AM

    so true camera being "on" in online classes do not give an assurance for attention from lazy students who start day dreaming but they just nod their head now and then ~Like me of course (ashamed)

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  2. Simran S KJune 30, 2021 at 2:17 AM

    Thanks for wording it out. I've been having the same thoughts but I couldn’t put it into words.
    Awesome

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  3. LunaticTacticianAugust 6, 2021 at 10:34 PM

    I attend a university where the professors simply hand out the materials and tasks--there are very few online classes like you guys have now.

    In my game dev class, we usually weren't required to show our faces or screens; we simply had to tell the instructor we're done and he's chill with it.
    We only show our faces in celebratory class pictures, while we show our screens when fixing bugs in our games.

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