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Distance Learning efforts against Corona

Cairo : Youmna Sayed

In light of the measures taken by the state to face the Corona
virus, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi had taken some decisions
related to the educational process in the meantime and to contain
the crisis; so he suspended schooling for school and university
students for two weeks, starting on Sunday, March 15, 2020. He
also allocated 100 billion pounds to finance a comprehensive plan
for combating the virus and for the precautionary measures that
would follow.
And in implementing this comprehensive plan, the dean of faculty
of economics and political science , Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Alsaid This was after the visit of the Minister of Higher Education Dr.
had taken number of measures. Accordingly, the system of e- Khaled Abdel Ghaffar and the President of Cairo University Dr.
learning was activated by using technological means of Mohamed Othman El-Khosht to the Faculty of Economics and
communication. And for students who have technical problems Political Science on Sunday 15th of March 2020 to follow the faculty's
with surfing the Internet, or those who do not have a computer, preparations to continue the educational process through e-learning
the college is providing CDs containing all the lectures at the end with the electronic means of communication. Besides, the director of
of each week. module and computer unit ,and the social science computing
Members of the teaching staff and the assistants had a significant assistant professor Dr. Shahinaz Gamal had explained how the
role in participating actively in the process of uploading the professors can communicate directly with the students through the
lectures on the faculty's YouTube channel through the link.. Moodle system, and how to upload the lectures on the faculty's
http://www.feps.edu.eg/en/lectures? YouTube channel.
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Mc-S7uA8UeapZI In addition, Dr. Mahmoud Alsaid decided to postpone the submission
Members of the teaching staff are on a regular communication of assignments and evaluations during the period from Sunday
with students in the meantime to answer all their inquiries, and March 15 to Saturday March 28 in all courses without exception, and
the faculty is doing its best to improve the quality of electroinc also to cancel the mid-term exams with 20% of the grade be allocated
communication and its content to make the e-learning process to the year’s work in the form of assignments from the course
successful. professor and the other 80% will be for the final exam according to the
statement of Cairo University Council on March 16, 2020.

There was also a battalion of chemical warfare which sterilized the
faculty as a precautionary procedure for curbing the prevalence of
corona virus and to protect the students and the faculty's personnel
health.

issue 18, April 2020 #Stay_at_home