IIT Bhubaneswar starts classes in hybrid mode

About 40 per cent of students at the institute are attending classes in offline mode. Each classroom has less than half the strength and full social distancing is being followed. 

About 40 per cent of the students of the IIT Bhubaneswar are now on the campus and attending classes in hybrid mode. Hybrid classes are being conducted in the newly constructed Pushpagiri Lecture Hall Complex (PLHC) which is equipped with electronic gadgets. Each classroom has less than half the strength and full social distancing is being followed. 

Prof Raja Kumar, Director, IIT Bhubaneswar, said, “For those students who are attending the lectures in person, these are like any modern lecture halls with facilities for multimedia projection, document camera, powerpoint presentations and use of other gadgets like a tablet. Now in order to facilitate live streaming of the lecture, the board work and the faculty member giving the lecture including the interaction, video and audio capturing and streaming facility is used.”  

"This will facilitate streaming of the lecture live to a remote student including an interactive or one way streaming session. We use MS Teams running on a laptop for the same. A faculty member can also interact with a remote student in the streaming session. On top of this, the faculty members are encouraged to use their own innovative methods over and above this basic mechanism,” he said. 

Apart from following SOPs, the institute is following additional mechanisms for safety such as classroom and seats of students are fixed to avoid them from switching seats, classrooms are fully open for ventilation and students are also provided with bicycles on the campus to avoid usage of public transport such as buses. 

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