I feel that having an E-Learning Day annually is not important for the school because the assignments given before and on E-Learning Day is more than that of normal school day assignments. I think that the assignments are quite difficult to complete on time.
Although there is much more freedom and much more time for students to complete their assignments, the students might not be able to complete their assignments due to several reasons such as:
-No internet access.
-Not enough time.
-Don’t understand the requirements of their teachers.
-not being able to access the school website for the assignments.
For those who do not have access to internet at home, they would have to come to school to use the computers in the computer lab, but if the computer lab closes too early, students who are using the computers in the lab might not be able to complete their online assignments in one day. For example, the computer lab opened at 8.00 am and closed at 12.50 pm on 13 July ’07 which is E-Learning Day, the students who had no access to the internet at home had only 4 ½ hours to complete their online assignments in school, which surely was not enough.
For some students, even if they had access to the internet at home, they might not have the time to complete all the assignments on time, as they would have other activities going on in school or other places. These activities could end in the late afternoons and students would only have the chance to do the assignments in the evening or night.
There are some students who do not understand the requirements of their teachers. The teachers should give crystal-clear instructions so that the students will understand the assignments and finish them on time.