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Due to the pandemic we are experiencing, and after Portugal was really the worst country in the world, classes went online. The challenges have been many, both for teachers and students, and there are some changes compared to the first confinement.
Regarding online classes, the Ministry of Education said today that teachers can force students to turn on webcams.
Online classes in Portugal with webcam on
The Ministry of Education revealed today to Agência Lusa that teachers can require students to have the webcam on. However, it is also defined that the images cannot / should not be published.
In accordance with the Resolution of the Council of Ministers and with the opinions of the National Data Protection Commission, teachers may require that the cameras (Webcam) be connected, since they are in the classroom, without images being published.
Filinto Lima, resident of the National Association of Public Schools and Group Directors (ANDAEP), told Lusa that ...
Not seeing the students, not understanding if they are motivated or not, if they are following what we say makes the teacher's job much more difficult
In the last school year, many teachers have complained that students do not turn on webcams. The teachers knew that without eye contact it was even more difficult to maintain the interest of the class. Teachers can now demand more of their students.
According to Filinto Lima, the situation in this new period of distance education "is no longer so problematic." "There was a sensitization of the school directors with the students and parents so that the students could keep the cameras connected and now this is a more residual problem", underlined the director of the school group Dr. Costa Matos, in Vila Nova de Gaia .
More than a million primary and secondary school students have been taking distance classes since the beginning of last week, due to the worsening situation of the pandemic in Portugal. At the moment, there is still no timetable to return to classroom teaching.
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