FOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY, OSOGBO, BEATS COVID-19: DEPLOYS FULL DIGITAL FACILITIES TO CONTINUE HER ACTIVITIES

FOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY, OSOGBO, BEATS COVID-19: DEPLOYS FULL DIGITAL FACILITIES TO CONTINUE HER ACTIVITIES

When the Senate of Fountain University approved the 2019/2020 Academic Calendar in September 2019, it could not have envisaged that a major drawback was coming to disrupt the world order, life, and indeed the academic and social activities at the ivory towers worldwide. One consistent attribute that has stood FUO out since the founding of the University is an uninterrupted academic calendar and consistency in the regularity of its statutory activities and events.

According to a release by her ICT Team, the First Semester of 2019/2020 ended on Friday, 20 March 2020 after all the students had concluded their examinations and the University proceeded immediately for the Semester Break which was to last until Sunday, 19 April 2020. Then came the “Big Bang”, the COVID-19 which forced all universities, indeed the entire country and the world to ‘close shops’; a lockdown to which no end seems to be in sight, at least for now..

Arising from this development, Fountain University quickly deployed its innovative ingenuity as underlied by its ICT facilities which are run by a creative and proactive team. By April 1, 2020, the Statutory meeting of the Management was held through the Webinar platform, and the test-running of the Learning Management System (LMS) with two academic programmes; namely, Computer Science and Economics took off on Monday, April 13.

The University Senate also met online through the interactive Webinar on  April 16 and the induction of academics into the Google Classroom facility was held on Saturday , April 18.

With the success achieved in the test-running with two programmes, full academic activities in respect of all our operational programmes commenced on Monday, April 20, 2020 based on the Senate approved timetable for the Second Semester of 2019/2020 session..

At the moment, Fountain University is concurrently using the LMS and Google Classroom, and exploring other facilities as afforded by Digital Learning outfits, such as, Galaxy Backbone, TCSION, LP 365, Telegram Link, among others.

LOCKDOWN or no LOCKDOWN as it happens worldwide, LOCKOUT of staff or no LOCKOUT, Fountain University moves on.