The Yogyakarta Youth and Sports Education Office has optimized online student learning consultation services through the use of YouTube and Zoom applications to reach out to more students and intensify interactions between students and teachers.
“There is a Greeting Student Learning Consultation service (KBS Menyapa). As long as teaching and learning activities are conducted online, the demand for them is quite high, and it has also increased,” Secretary of the Yogyakarta Youth and Sports Education Office Dedi Budiono stated here on Friday.
Budiono noted that the service covers subjects that were normally included in the national examination, such as Indonesian Language, Mathematics, Science, and English, which elementary and junior high school students could study.
The Greeting Student Learning Consultation service can be accessed through the YouTube channel of the Youth and Sports Education Office every Monday to Thursday starting at 1 p.m. local time.
Students can also join via a Zoom link announced before. Up to 100 students can join the session. “A schedule of subjects and school levels has been provided, so that students can choose the subjects they want to follow,” he revealed.
Head of the Education Data and Information System Section of the Yogyakarta Youth and Sports Education Office Entik Siti Hidayati stated that the number of students participating in the consultation service could reach hundreds every day. Prior to the examination period, it would increase up to 500 or even 700 students per session.
Mathematics is the subject with the highest demand among students. “Actually, all subjects that are broadcast through live streaming garner a lot of interest,” he affirmed.
Students that were unable to access the Zoom session can watch it via YouTube. “If you have any questions, you can submit them in the comments column. Thus, it can still be interactive,” Hidayati stated.
She revealed that at the start of the service, the live streaming broadcast of the consultation service was conducted through a studio at the Yogyakarta City Youth and Sports Education Office. However, due to the pandemic that gradually worsened, the teacher had to broadcast via Zoom, which was then linked to YouTube.
Currently, the consultation service is still being improved. Later on, it will also offer counseling services that parents can also participate in. Parents could share their experiences and obstacles when it comes to accompanying their children during online learning at home, she noted.
The website consultation service also remains available and offers solution to various questions posed daily by students.
The online consultation service, which can be accessed through the kbs.jogjakota.go.id page, will be developed further through various innovations, to improve the quality of education services in Yogyakarta.
Source: Antara News