The Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) says there is a possibility that its students may do their examinations online if the lockdown will not be relaxed by Government of Uganda.
The plan was revealed by the Institution’s Academic Registrar Dr Halima Wakabi Akbar this week during online sensitizing students on Open Distance E-Learning (ODeL) ahead of commencement of Semester 2 on 5th July, 2021.
She said there is a possibility that examinations will be done online if the lockdown is still in place.
In her remarks, the IUIU Academic Registrar Dr Halima Wakabi Akbar urges students to attend online classes to proceed to the next level.
Dr Akbar says the lecturers will commit themselves to fully teach students.
The IUIU AR says on fees, the university has made some recommendations to the university council on the fees to be paid because students are not learning physically.
Dr Akbar says students will be allowed to learn for 4 weeks without paying fees pending for approval of the University Council to decide on the proposed fees. She says there is a possibility that the accommodation and other functional fees may be scrapped off because students are learning online from their homes.
Dr Akbar says nursing students will not learn online because they were about to write examinations.
She advises students with pending examination papers to continue revising and that the papers will be taken when schools reopen. Dr Akbar says the online learning will only focus theoretical papers not the practical ones.
In his remarks, IUIU ICT Manager Dr Chemusto Mussa says students can access Edurom WIFI free of charge in various places wherever they are as long Edurom is in those places. He talked of places such as Universities, Malls among others.
Dr Mussa says students will be learning using ERP, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Teams among others. Dr Chemusto says ERP can be accessed free of charge on MTN line and discussions are ongoing that those using Airtel line must also access the ERP free of charge.
Recently, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni closed schools as one way for curbing the new wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. Since its onset in 2019, COVID-19 pandemic has killed over 500 people in the country and over 3 Million people worldwide.
