Coronavirus Lockdown: Dhirubhai Ambani International School begins live classroom teaching

Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS), one of India’s leading international schools, situated in Mumbai, announced that it has commenced live online classes for its students today. Using online meeting platforms, the live online classes will be run with the teachers and all students attending on video and attendance being marked online.

The school is using Microsoft Teams as the platform to run the classes with the bandwidth and connectivity being provided by Reliance Jio. The platform is also being used by teachers for collaboration and planning with each other. The school will also use the Whiteboard Platform to conduct online classes.

This program has been developed in view of the social distancing measures necessary to limit the spread of Covid-19.

The online live teaching started with a full day schedule for students of class 10th and 12th. The school will extend live online classes to all students in the next 4-5 days.

In preparation for starting the online classes, the school converted



all the classroom material to make it suitable for online teaching and also trained its teachers for the medium over the last few days. All the training and preparatory work was done online with teachers participating from homes.

In an opening message to school children, Nita Ambani, Founder and Chairperson of Dhirubhai Ambani International School, said that while it is the beginning of a new academic term for the school, it is being done keeping in mind the unprecedented situation brought upon by the Covid-19 pandemic, with health and safety of everyone being the prime priority. She informed that with the cancellation of international board exams and lockdown in 138 countries, more than a billion children or nearly 80 percent of learners were impacted and that the school was equally concerned for about the overall well-being of the students.

In addition to conducting classes, the school has also scheduled online parent-teachers meetings (PTM) of those classes which were pending or were postponed earlier as a precaution against the Covid related issues.