NOIDA school introduces virtual classrooms in India amidst COVID-19 scare

Noida: The NOIDA-based school Global Indian International School (GIIS), a leading international school from Asia, has commenced GIIS virtual classroom for its students from today, offering school lessons through online video conferencing technologies.

GIIS schools in Bengaluru, Pune, Surat & Ahmedabad will follow suit in a day, and with these, over 11,000 students at these & overseas located GIIS schools would be able to enjoy virtual classes from the comfort of their homes. GIIS is the first school in the world to deploy virtual classrooms on such a large enterprise scale.

"By introducing virtual classrooms for all its students in India, GIIS is doing a great service to the student community. In aligning its education delivery during challenging times of COVID-19, GIIS will bring big relief to the parent community.

We encourage all CBSE schools, as far as possible, to introduce similar innovative ways for their students to give them an uninterrupted learning experience", said Anurag Tripathi, CBSE Secretary on the launch of virtual classrooms in India by GIIS.

"At GIIS we have incorporated educational technologies that deliver maximum learning impact for every child, and the virtual classrooms are a great example of that.

Virtual classrooms facilitate innovation through dynamic exchange of ideas with real-life bidirectional interactivity and this makes learning and teaching at GIIS an uninterrupted experience of innovative learning thoughts", said Arjun Temurnikar, Asst Director of Technology at Global Schools Foundation.

In view of COVID-19 and to ensure GIIS India students continue to receive education on a seamless basis, the school has put in place several innovative teaching techniques that the students can now take advantage of to keep themselves safe and secure at all times.

GIIS has implemented a Continuity Plan (CP) for its students & teachers to minimize the impact of the virus and minimize disruptions to students in their learning journey.

GIIS schools have taken a number of measures to ensure the safety of students and some of these include temperature screening of all staff, students and visitors to the school, daily temperature checking by parents, and implementing special sanitizing of entire schools as per WHO guidelines, on all days.