Media Release
Mangaluru, Jun 8: The Department of Secretarial Practice organised a two-day national level online programme entitled, ‘Virtual Training for Virtual Teaching Platforms’ on June 5 and 6. The main objective of the programme was to train the teachers along with their students as a team, to conduct online classes with the help of three major Google applications provided in the G Suite.
The resource persons were:
1. Vishnu Poojari - Assistant professor, Department of Commerce, Acharya Institute of Graduate Studies, Bengaluru. He trained the participants on Google Classroom.
2. Jonita Rasquinha - Department of Computer Applications, St Agnes College, gave training on Google Forms
3. Shanthi Nazareth - Dean of Arts and Head of the Department of Secretarial Practice, St Agnes College, gave training on Google Meet.
The programme on day 1 began with an inaugural at 9.45 am. The prayer was led by Freeda Almeida, Florida Almeida, participants and former students of St Agnes College. Sr Dr Venissa AC principal, St Agnes College, gave her message on the occasion and offered her best wishes. Shanthi Nazareth convener of the programme provided an overview of the programme. This was followed by the two sessions on Google Classroom and Google Meet.
On day 2 the prayer was led by Shallet D’Silva, a participant from Saudi Arabia, a former staff in the Mathematics department of St Agnes College. Shanthi Nazareth convener rendered the vote of thanks at the end of the two-day programme. Dr Nancy Vaz organizing secretary moderated the sessions on both the days.
The participants were trained to create and manage the Google Classroom, to conduct meetings as well as classes through Google Meet and to provide the necessary support to classroom activities through the Google Forms. All the sessions were interactive. The participants were given assignments on the topics whose output was required to be submitted to receive the certificate of participation.
The maximum intake that was 250 was fully taken up by participants from across the country, including two from abroad. On an average around 200 participants took part in the training programme. The programme was well appreciated by the participants.