KUALA LUMPUR: The Education Ministry has provided guidelines detailing the roles and responsibilities of administrators, teachers, parents and students to ensure the smooth delivery of teaching and learning throughout the Movement Control Order (MCO) period.
In a statement yesterday, the ministry said the teaching and learning platform (PdP) guidelines included access to communications technology among teachers, parents and students.
It said that teachers could plan and give instructions, assignments and homework using a variety of online platforms and social media deemed appropriate.
Considering that some may have limited access to the Internet, it added that teachers could ask those students to do learning through textbooks, exercise books, revision books and activity books while at home.
It said teachers could also refer to learning platforms provided by the ministry, state education departments and district education offices, and other relevant platforms.
The ministry-provided learning platform, MoE-DL, is accessible through www.moe-dl.edu.my.
“The platform provides links to Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for PdP, digital textbooks, PdP videos (EduwebTV/CikgooTube) and links to applications to help PdP, such as Edpuzzle (an interactive teaching application via video), Quizizz (quiz game) and Kahoot (game-based learning platform).”
The ministry said parents could access the EduwebTV and CikgooTube at eduwebtv.moe.edu.my and bit.ly/cikgootube to help with children’s learning at home.
Teachers are also given the flexibility of time for PdP and methods of guiding students, and to review their tasks.
It said that delivery and retrieval of printed materials involving movement during the MCO period was not allowed.
“With the cooperation of administrators, teachers, parents and students, the ministry believes that the learning process could be effective despite these trying times.”
In a statement from the Higher Education Ministry, polytechnic and community college students pursuing diploma or professional certificate programmes will not have final exams or assessments this semester following the MCO extension.
This is also in line with the government’s plan to convert polytechnics and community colleges into temporary surveillance and quarantine centres for Covid-19.
“Semester assessment grades will instead be based on their continuous assessment scores.”
The ministry said students who were still on campus were required to remain in hostels or other private residences, while students in family residences were requested to remain in their respective units until further notice.
For undergraduate students in polytechnics, it said, a separate announcement would be issued.