Transitioning from traditional teaching to online teaching

Dr. Joana Rigato, Philosophy Teacher: We know that our students have different needs to what they had several years ago. They are much more interested in technological devices and we wanted to stay up to date.

We needed a platform that would allow us to communicate with the students quickly and immediately. One that would have many possibilities so that teachers of various subjects would be able to use it according to their particular way of teaching and their needs, that are very different for each subject.

It was clear to us that we needed to have this kind of tool to complement the physical classroom with a digital way of being in contact with the students, sharing things with them, and having them also share their work with us.

Dr. Joana Rigato, Philosophy Teacher: CYPHER's LMS is a useful platform that we have been using in so many different ways. I like how I can share material with the students and have them, for example, make a video at home in which they are telling me what they know and what they think about a particular author. For example, I share with them several videos and several documents and I organize the students into groups. In the groups, they discuss a specific problem that I raise during a Zoom class.

After the class ends and I have shared with them various materials, which can be a PowerPoint, videos, even quizzes for them to do, then they go ahead and discuss the class in groups and I ask them to make videos to share their ideas and share them with me using CYPHER. For example, when working as a group, they have some questions that they answered through CYPHER. So, they upload their answers. They upload their videos all through CYPHER, and I can evaluate them and grade all their work easily. It's immediate, and it's effortless.