In March, 2020 when a lock down was announced due to COVID-19 pandemic, all of a sudden, every domain of life came to a halt. Business, commerce, entertainment venues, events, markets, and education institutes suffered severely as they were forced to shut down. Under such circumstances, Education sector underwent drastic change where due to closure of institutes, classes started happening Online. It is in this context, there is a need to understand what kind of situation students went through and how did they cope up with this situation. For this purpose, research was carried out in order to find out the reception of Online classes among school students. The study utilized Survey Method where Questionnaire was prepared and distributed among the school students of Kolkata. The study concluded that even though the online classes were happening everywhere around the city, yet the learning and understanding level of students was merely average which points out to the poor reception. The study helped in understanding the plight of students who had to bear the forced decision of Online classes during the pandemic. Also, it aided in highlighting the various issues that arise from use of technologies. Such insights would surely help researchers in understanding this phenomenon and they might come up with certain solutions to issues that were pointed out in this study.

Keywords: Online Classes, COVID-19, school students, learning, reception

Arya Hrishi Dey, Soumyadeep Ray, Hrithik Das Gupta, Dwaipayan Dey, Tapas Sarkar, Shekhar Mallick, Anirban Tarafder, Indranil Sarkar

(BBA, Fifth Semester, Adamas University, Kolkata)

Dr. Nitesh Tripathi, Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata

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