Post-Covid Schooling - Mind Mapping

Challenge & Selection

Covid-19 situation brings a new world to us. We usually conducted physical school but

this time the idea of online class is presented to us as obligation. Nowadays classes

and exams are mostly conducted virtually. Recently a school managing committee

requested us to conduct this assignment to see how an effective online schooling

mechanism we can propose. The first tool we used was the tool of Visualization, or

Visual Thinking, to achieve a shared understanding of a problem space among a

diverse group of students, parents, teachers, IT professionals and other relevant

stakeholders. Before going to make action plans we use Mind Mapping tool to facilitate

brainstorming among relevant stakeholders and contributors. We use this approach

often with our customers to solve a problem efficiently.

Application

Usually at the event of mind mapping sessions, to start with we present meaningful data

with visual presentation to our participants to be aligned with the problem we will be

trying to solve. After the briefing session we invite participants to be distributed among

predefined groups where already set of questions there to discuss and a moderator of

each group fascilitae the group to come up with their inputs. Participants then place

sticky notes to each group poster board. Usually 30 minutes the session goes and after

that each moderator presents one after another with their ideas and proposals.

But during this pandemic situation we conducted the whole workshop online in zoom

platform and were able to run an effective mind mapping session. At first we had a

presentation session with graphical data, images and briefing and after that we split

online participants in groups as mentioned below. Each group zoom room, discussed

and designed and prepared a basic presentation, which was delivered by the moderator

of that group.

We made 4 groups like below -

1. Infrastructure

2. Software Features

3. Class Conducts

4. Health

It was a vibrant session with lots of enthusiasm among participants where question and

answer sessions made it more meaningful. With the permission we recorded the

session to store all suggestions. Then informed the audience that we will update them

shortly with the selection action plans for the next 4 months.

Insight & Approach

It was a very effective session indeed and we came up with ideas and insights which

were previously overlooked. We thank participants for making such an effective mind

mapping session. Key insights we could generate in the session -

● Infrastructure

○ Load shedding problem

○ Low speed internet

○ Not all students and teachers are well equipped

● Software Features

○ Zoom class

○ Automated attendance

○ Online exam

○ Assignment submissions

○ Grade

○ Syllabus tracker

● Class Conducts

○ Online class with mandatory video

○ Teachers training to conduct effective online class

○ Both online and physical classes

● Health

○ Shorten class period

○ Frequent breaks

○ Campus and people sanitization monitoring

○ Proper distancing

○ Mandatory use of masks

Above mentioned few points came out from the session which were worth to be highly

considered to design an effective post covid schooling. We will prepare the next 4

months plan and present it to school management. School management will then ask a

session to announce the plan and aware stakeholders about ongoing activities. With

such a participation it became very easy to come up with a solution that will be easily

accepted by all and ensure their wholehearted participation to make it successful.

