Can’t make it from an in-person to virtual class on time?
Georgia Southern created Zoom rooms to ensure students arrive to class on time
October 7, 2020
STATESBORO — With classes relying on Zoom as a way to reach all students with classroom occupancy limits there are those who have issues getting from one class in person to the next online.
The University has widely available computer labs along with a far reaching WiFi network for students to be able to set up shop on campus without having to commute back home between classes.
“Additionally, some colleges have identified rooms that are not in use during specific times and have designated them as study rooms — those also can be used for Zoom classes.” wrote Carl Reiber, provost and vice president of academic affairs, in an email to The George-Anne.
These Zoom Rooms can be found via posts on bulletin boards boldly labeled “ZOOM” where it lays out the location of the rooms as well as when they are available.
Once you get to these Zoom rooms, they have a sheet on the door restating the particular room’s schedule along with the classroom capacity.
Just like any other area on campus make sure to maintain social distance if there are others utilizing the room and keep an eye on the room’s person limit.
Kate • Oct 7, 2020 at 5:28 pm
The Parker College of Business offers quiet spaces/rooms for business students who are running into this problem, allowing them to use their headphones and computers to attend their Zoom classes when they have back-to-back classes as this article suggests. The locations and times for these quiet spaces are posted to the large screen monitors in The Hub/Coca-Cola Plaza and the lobby of the Parker College.
Sadie Ingram • Oct 7, 2020 at 4:49 pm
I’m one of these students and this is ridiculous. The whole point of going online is to limit the number of students on campus, but if I have to be on campus for my online class, kind of defeats the purpose doesn’t it? It’s the dumbest thing. What’s the point of holding an online class then, if these students that are supposed to be off campus (why go online in the first place if it wasn’t to limit the number of bodies on campus) are still on campus. It means that the buildings are just as crowded as they usually are, with people taking their masks off their noses (and sometimes off completely) as soon as they get out of sight of professors in classrooms. And lets not even start on the maskless people in the Zoom rooms.