Adamson University students thought the previous semester’s routine was much better as the second-half of the academic year “made students’ life harder,” the results of the Adamson University Student Government’s (AUSG’s) recent survey showed.
Based on the survey, students thought the first-half of the academic year was much better as the loads were not heavy and there was more time to review due to asynchronous classes.
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The survey showed some of the students’ suggestions to make this semester somewhat better, including reducing the number of synchronous classes to one meeting per week or bringing back the same set-up of synchronous and asynchronous sessions observed during the first semester.
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“Lessen the synchronous [sessions] so that we can focus on other things. Some students do not have ample or good stable internet connection which limits them from video conferencing,” one suggestion read.
“Making synchronous meetings twice a week is a bad move. They did not even consider the students that [do] not have unlimited internet connection,” it added.
The results of the survey further showed concern about internet connection as more synchronous meetings would mean more bandwidth to be consumed. One suggestion was to bring back the free P300 load allowance as not all students do not have a stable internet connection.
“It made students’ life harder -- from taking free mobile data away to adding [synchronous] classes when professors give the same load of assessments,” a student thought.
Should the twice-a-week synchronous meetings continue, students thought that professors should reduce the workload of the students.
“If there will be extended hours for synchronous meetings, the free load and opening of cameras should be considered by the professors,” it read.
Meanwhile, the students suggested removing Zoom from the list of applications to be used for synchronous classes because the application consumes a lot of data unlike Google Meet. Another recommendation was to use Discord as an alternative as it uses the least data while offering the same functionality of the other applications.
With a total of 209 student respondents, the AUSG’s report exhibited a large percentage of students struggling on the new precept.
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The majority of the respondents are using mobile internet with 69.4 percent, while students using Wi-Fi Modem amounted to 30.6 percent.
Meanwhile, 90.9 percent of the respondents “often to sometimes” encounter internet connectivity problems.
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