Education department started online attendance without preparation

Education Reporter | Bettiah

The new decree of the Education Department to make online attendance of Principal and teachers working in government schools has become a headache for teachers. The teachers of the district are shocked by this new system started without complete preparation and proper training. The department has constructed e-education fund software for online monitoring of various school activities. Under this, e-education fund portal and mobile app have also been developed. Now online attendance of teachers is being made through this e-education fund mobile app. Which has started from 25 June. But even three days after the new system started, not a single teacher of 941 schools in the district has been able to attend the online attendance. They have to struggle a lot for teachers who are being attended online. After about half to one and a half hours of effort, teachers are able to attend online attendance. Sometimes a network issue and sometimes the app is not working properly, and there is a problem in making attendance. Equivalent work and the new decree being issued by the department is already disturbed by the new attendance system and even more Have become upset. While it is just Taylor. Further, the attendance of school children is also to be recorded online. For this, there is a plan to provide tablets and computers to all schools. It is mandatory for teachers to stay within 500 meters of the school to register attendance from the mobile app. But despite being present in the school, teachers are having trouble in making attendance on e -education mobile app. The alam is that the online attendance of a quarter of teachers in about 20 thousand teachers and about 3 thousand schools in the district has not started online.

The department is not unaware of the problems faced by teachers online attendance. At the departmental level, continuous training is now being emphasized. Whereas this training should have been given before starting a new system. However, this problem of teachers has opened the sleep of the department. On June 27, all BEOs and BPM training were imparted through VC from the state level office regarding the diagnosis of this problem coming in online attendance. At the same time, training has also been imparted on 29 June. Along with this, preparations are also made to train all school heads and teachers at the block level. This training is being conducted from July 1 to July 6. The DPO Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan has also directed all BEOs to set up a monitoring cell at the block level for this. Through this monitoring cell, the difficulties in registering the presence of teachers daily will be resolved.