BDU launches portal for students, staff

TNN | Apr 7, 2020, 04.09 AM IST

Trichy: Bharathidasan University (BDU) has launched an exclusive web page and portal for for its staff, students and stakeholders to keep them engaged with the help of digital activities during the lockdown period.

The web page has numerous digital resources for learning and teaching, providing links to many tools, books, mobile applications, video lectures and other audio-visual materials which will be available through digital library services on the university website.

Vice-chancellor P Manisankar has instructed all the faculty and students to make use of these online resources to teach and train students.

“Tools such as Zoom, Google Classroom, Hangout and Skype should be leveraged to implement online classes as some of the university departments such as bio-informatics and library sciences have been conducting such online classes,” he said.

“The university has custom tailored a mobile app called uLektz which is a learners’ management system through which students are being delivered video lectures, presentations and other learning materials. Professors are conducting online exams also through this mobile app,” said registrar G Gopinath. A short-term online course on Intellectual Property Rights and patent filing was also launched for the benefit of students and staff.