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7 Students have explored different ways to cheat during viva also
8 No coordination between faculties of different disciplines to limit the
number of assignments and quizzes, too many assignments all at the
same time from various
9 Lacking practice to answer an exam online especially in humanities
10 The non-Delhi students are among the most disadvantaged. The
outstation students are
11 Not able to express our answers with full of satisfaction
Towards the end, the survey delved into Resource Development launched vlabs
the coverage of the practical component portal (Vlabs, 2012), with an aim to
and the justice done towards the extra- provide technical education to those
curricular activities that took place college students with inadequate lab-
during online classes. 62percent of the facilities. While teaching online during
respondents agreed that they were the COVID-19 era, theoretical briefing
unable to pursue their favorite activities. was accompanied by these simulated
The hands-on laboratory classes were experiments wherever possible,
replaced with virtual laboratories however, most of the lab projects were
especially in the areas of life sciences replaced with review work on relevant
and vocational subjects. Such labs are topics. Only 19percent of the survey
simulations of real experiments and participants communicated satisfaction
do not require any infrastructure or for the practical component indicating
equipment, enabling the learners to that hands-on activities are severely
follow a particular procedure via a web affected and need to be worked on for
browser at their own convenience. the effectiveness of the course content
In India, the Ministry for Human (Fig.-3).

Figure-3: Students response to the effectiveness of practicals conducted
online on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the highest level of satisfaction)

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