Due the necessity of online learning, the English and Humanities department decided to ask a few of the students about their experiences working with this new dynamic. Responses came from students both physically at school as well as at home.

What aspects of online learning have you enjoyed?

What I have enjoyed about online learning is that we get more time to work through the tasks and complete it to the best of our abilities.

I have enjoyed not having to get super ready for school in my uniform; I have also enjoyed how much spare time I have to do other jobs.

Which aspects of online learning have been a challenge?

Some challenging parts are not being able to have full conversations with your teacher about the work and it can be hard when the teacher is not standing in front of you and explaining. This can also help us to be more independent and solve our own problems because half the time, the answers are in plain sight. 

Learning the online lesson ways and trying to communicate with friends and teachers.

How has it affected your ability to learn?           

I think online learning is more difficult than normal school because I cannot interact with my teachers and get more resources to do the activity. I also think online schooling is harder because it pushes you a lot more and can get a little challenging to complete all the work. At the same time, I think the change is also very good, because it has helped me to solve many questions on my own and it is a way to show responsibility when submitting tasks. This has definitely affected my learning positively though there are drawbacks.

It has been a little bit harder as I can’t ask the teacher questions as easy.

We hope students have enjoyed the online learning experience and look forward to having them back in class from week 6, hopefully.