Creation of Virtual Rooms and Audio Recordings for the Second Semester

Engineer Mohammed Abduljawad, the director of the Virtual Rooms and Audio Recordings Unit, has confirmed the creation of 313 virtual rooms for the second semester. He noted that the virtual rooms unit is still undergoing modifications based on the directives of department heads.

Abduljawad explained that the College of Economics and Business Administration usually has a large number of students, requiring the creation of lecture rooms with a capacity exceeding 100 students. However, for this semester, there was a need to create larger rooms in the College of Computers, given the increase in the number of students in certain courses to more than 150 individuals. Consequently, the computer science rooms needed to accommodate more than 100 people.

Abduljawad added that one of the new features for this semester is the use of codes in course schedules to facilitate access for the technical support team and streamline the process of submitting requests by students and coordinators.

He further mentioned the establishment of a website for uploading audio recordings and the creation of playlists for these recordings. The number of audio playlist links reached 83, as well as 83 video playlist links. A feature in the Telegram application was utilized, supporting the creation of topics in groups, to organize file uploads and assist coordinators in quickly accessing them.

Abduljawad pointed out the adoption of new privacy policies regarding video recordings on YouTube as a preliminary experiment, to accommodate instructors' preference for not appearing on the platform. Therefore, a decision was made within the virtual rooms unit not to include instructors' names in videos or audio recordings. To enable students to view the videos, the email address of each student will be used for the respective course.

Abduljawad concluded his statements by announcing that the unit has established two groups on the WhatsApp application; one for monitoring incomplete recordings and the other for requesting makeup lectures.