Distance education: anxiety for the second day



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Students and teachers anxiously wait to see if the Distance education and confirm the commitment of the company that has undertaken the e-learning platform and Ministry of Education, that everything will be fine.

With “Good morning” at the “premiere” yesterday the problems began with the distance education for middle and high school students Yesterday morning during the second school year the platform “fell” Webex , which generates tension and irritation between students, teachers and parents.

Cisco resumed Webex yesterday afternoon. As Nikos Lambrogeorgos told protothema.gr company executive in Greece “Cisco has restored the operation of the Webex service that today for a short time affected a limited number of users in the EMEAR region (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia”).

He also emphasized that “we continue to evolve our systems and procedures to mitigate the likelihood of similar incidents in the future. Finally, we would like to thank Webex users for their patience in resolving this issue.” The problem was not only about the country but all of Europe and is due to a technical error in a center in London ”.

What the Ministry of Education says

From the Ministry of Education, on the malfunction of the Webex system, from the General Secretariat of Primary, Secondary and
Special education and training, clarified the following: “The Webex platform provider has provided assurances that it is working to rectify the problem and full system operation has been launched. Obviously, absences will not be taken into account in cases where that a technical problem has occurred. It is observed that the Network of Panhellenic Schools functions normally, as well as all the platforms of the Ministry of Education and Religions.

At the same time, the Vice Minister of Education Sofia Zacharaki stated on state television that today’s students’ absences will not be counted as they tried but were unable to enter their classroom online.

The incident sparked a storm of opposition reactions that accused the government of dangerous carelessness, with the SYRIZA to demand the resignation of the Minister of Education with Stelios Petsas calling the request funny.

What applies to absences

To check the absences of the students, a Student Book (absentee book) is kept, in which the sum of the absences of the day of each student who was absent is entered numerically, as they have been registered in the Daily Bulletin of the Student. defined by the Association of Teachers that maintains it in electronic format. Likewise, all teachers are obliged to properly register the titles of the unit they taught on a daily basis.

It is recalled that distance education is mandatory for secondary and high school students and teachers, due to the crown and each school hour lasts 40 minutes.

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