Type Benefits of Student Drawbacks of Student System Comments/ Resolution
System
Hardware Students and lecturers If students don’t have the required The college could lend out
use their own system hardware to do work, they will struggle equipment to students that need it
to finish tasks
Students can use their If students don’t have microphones and The students can use their phones
phones as a camera and cameras, it will be hard to communicate as cameras to join the meetings if
microphone to each other during meetings they have one
Software Can use the services the If students have an old computer, they Ask the college to lend equipment
college provide (Office might not be able to run new software out to students that don’t have the
365) that they require to complete work required hardware
Connectivity Can access college work If internet access is not available or slow If the internet is not very fast,
from home at home, students can’t do work as make sure that there are no other
efficiently devices using it, as it will slow it
down more. This will make it hard
to join the meetings reliably
Contact students any Lack of human interaction for students Go speak to friends or family
time and lecturers may impact on work members face to face if possible
efforts
Other College won’t have to If college servers go down, students Make sure there are other ways
use as much electricity if won’t be able to access certain services students can access their work and
students work from e.g. Moodle resources
home
Sessions can be recorded If meetings aren’t recorded, students Make sure that students join the
and watched back at that miss the lecture when it was live meeting on time to understand the
anytime won’t have a full understanding of what work properly. If they are not
they’re doing present, an email reminding them
could be sent
College don’t have to pay College won’t make extra money selling They could make money out of
as many staff e.g. janitors food in the canteen loaning equipment to students that
need it most
More flexibility for when Students won’t always turn up to Make sure that all students know
students start working meetings as they feel they can get away when they’re supposed to be in a
on tasks with more if they don’t have to go meeting by sending teams invites
somewhere physically to help them remember
An alternative solution could be sending work in an email, then giving an explanation on the task. A
benefit to this is that students know what they’ve got to do and can start the task right away.
However, this could be difficult for some pupils because they might not understand the task or
misunderstand it and do work that the lecturer didn’t want them to do.
System
Hardware Students and lecturers If students don’t have the required The college could lend out
use their own system hardware to do work, they will struggle equipment to students that need it
to finish tasks
Students can use their If students don’t have microphones and The students can use their phones
phones as a camera and cameras, it will be hard to communicate as cameras to join the meetings if
microphone to each other during meetings they have one
Software Can use the services the If students have an old computer, they Ask the college to lend equipment
college provide (Office might not be able to run new software out to students that don’t have the
365) that they require to complete work required hardware
Connectivity Can access college work If internet access is not available or slow If the internet is not very fast,
from home at home, students can’t do work as make sure that there are no other
efficiently devices using it, as it will slow it
down more. This will make it hard
to join the meetings reliably
Contact students any Lack of human interaction for students Go speak to friends or family
time and lecturers may impact on work members face to face if possible
efforts
Other College won’t have to If college servers go down, students Make sure there are other ways
use as much electricity if won’t be able to access certain services students can access their work and
students work from e.g. Moodle resources
home
Sessions can be recorded If meetings aren’t recorded, students Make sure that students join the
and watched back at that miss the lecture when it was live meeting on time to understand the
anytime won’t have a full understanding of what work properly. If they are not
they’re doing present, an email reminding them
could be sent
College don’t have to pay College won’t make extra money selling They could make money out of
as many staff e.g. janitors food in the canteen loaning equipment to students that
need it most
More flexibility for when Students won’t always turn up to Make sure that all students know
students start working meetings as they feel they can get away when they’re supposed to be in a
on tasks with more if they don’t have to go meeting by sending teams invites
somewhere physically to help them remember
An alternative solution could be sending work in an email, then giving an explanation on the task. A
benefit to this is that students know what they’ve got to do and can start the task right away.
However, this could be difficult for some pupils because they might not understand the task or
misunderstand it and do work that the lecturer didn’t want them to do.
