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In Indonesia, many schools, universities and other education institutions have started implementing online learning concept. This concept allows every teachers and students to run their learning activities remotely. Today, many online platforms are available for everyone to have effective and efficient learning activities at home.

However, considering this online learning concept is relatively new for some people in Indonesia, how can we ensure that it is being conducted effectively? These are some advices that might be useful for you!

1. Ensure that you have reliable Internet connection
   The key to a successful online learning activity is the good, stable and fast Internet connection. Therefore, teachers and students must ensure their Internet connection is reliable and has a sufficient and stable bandwidth capacity. If the Internet connection is unstable, we can be sure that online learning activities will not be running smoothly.

2. Prepare all the required technology
   Since the main concept of studying at home is called online learning, technology and multimedia devices become necessary. Devices like PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, headset, speaker, modem, webcam, and such need to be prepared properly, and don’t forget to ensure all devices have proper access to the Internet.

3. Make sure to have all the supporting applications
   Unlike face-to-face learning activities at school, online learning requires streaming applications or platforms to learning activities can be done. The availability of online learning platforms like Google Classroom and others has become the key factor to have a successful online learning process. Moreover, video conference applications such as Zoom, Google Hangout, Microsoft Teams and such are also crucial, both for the teachers and the students, so they can maintain a good communication during the process. Also, other supporting applications like Microsoft Whiteboard our Web Board are also helpful since they allow teachers to explain learning subjects through images and writings with those apps.

4. Create easy-to-understand subject content
   When we study online at home, direct interaction between teachers and students becomes limited compared with face-to-face method at school. Since teachers are not able to meet students face-to-face, it will be better if teachers can create easy-to-understand contents without reducing the quality of it. With easy-to-understand contents, student can maintain their motivation and stay focus in completing their tasks at home.

5. Set deadline to the student
   When we are committed to study at home, teachers will be challenged to monitor each of student’s learning process. In other words, teacher might find it a bit difficult to ensure whether their students are being responsible or not. Therefore, setting a deadline for each task can be a good solution for this issue. However, each teacher from different subjects has to be able to have a proper time arrangement in giving tasks to the students. This can avoid the possibilities for students to grow the feeling of laziness and tiredness, caused by the accumulated tasks, which can also cause stress.

To give you a quick reference about the capacity of bandwidth that you require to conduct a smooth online learning activity, see the following table:

Realizing that high quality Internet has become the most important element for online learning activities at home, Biznet continues providing the best Internet service to ensure that online learning activities at home can be done smoothly and effectively. Biznet’s best service is hoped to support teachers in delivering their lessons as well as for the students in accessing all information and subjects to be learned and completed at home.