DST STAR

DEPLOYMENT OF MICROSOFT TEAMS : LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM


               Learning is an indispensable tool that nourishes our minds and soothes our soul. It is a necessity for both personal and professional career as it makes us capable of understanding and handling things in a better way. In the ever - evolving landscape of education, digital learning has emerged as a game – changer, offering a plethora of benefits for both students and educators.

               Digital revolution has enabled the adoption and proliferation of digital usage in every walk of life including pedagogy and invaded the teaching and learning community owing to its versatility in knowledge assimilation and sharing. The Government of India started emphasizing on ICT and use of online education as a part of compulsory teaching-learning process at tertiary level. This has enabled a pedagogical shift from traditional classrooms to virtual learning environments which brings a host of advantages, fostering a more flexible, personalised and engaging educational experience.

                Amidst all the technological complexities and implementation difficulties, we are marching forward in training the academicians in ICT enabled teaching and delivering the best through online.

The need for a perfect LMS - MS Teams Deployment

                The pressing need for online teaching put us into the journey in search for a cost effective and secured LMS. “Chance favours prepared minds”- as the saying goes, the online mode of teaching exercise was introduced in the academic year 2020 – 2021 with a techno philanthropic support. We are using MS Teams for Teaching- learning practise, Webinars, Student’s Induction Programmes, Board of studies meeting, Academic Council meeting, Governing Body Meeting, Meeting of the Examination Committee, Association meetings etc.

Team Members :

College Admin: Dr. R. Uma Rani, Principal
Co-ordinator: Dr. S.S. Gomathi, Associate Professor of Physics
Members:
1. Dr. S. Umadevi, Associate Professor of Economics,
2. Dr. R. Gomathi, Assistant Professor of Botany
3. Dr. K. Revathy, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
4. Dr. M. Kanimozhi, Assistant Professor of Home Science
Facilities

  • Office 365 email accounts for staff and students
  • MS Office licenses like MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point and 1 TB of space for each student
  • 50 TB of space for the institution
  • MS Teams
Features explored in MS Teams

  • Online assignment: Students can be assigned works online and this helps the teacher to keep track of their completion status
  • Other Applications like polls, forms etc.
  • Substitution of teachers possible due to ownership of all teachers and any faculty member can go to any classroom.
  • Live event with 10,000 participants
  • Class room capacity of upto 300 students
  • Student’s ids can be provided up to 5000 students
  • Quality video recording and download allowed for all students and faculty members
  • It enables the student absentee and those who want to revisit the class to download the lecture and listen.
  • Huge Cloud space upto 50 TB has been allotted to our institution
  • Domain mapping: The college website domain was mapped in global level and the details of students and faculty members were handled by the support team

               Thus, the episode of metamorphosis where every faculty and learner stand firm in the grounds of using the MS teams and have the spirits of exploring more is continuing its journey.