Parent-Student-Handbook-2020-21_E-learning

6- VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS AND CLASS CAPACITY
• Students will be assigned virtual classrooms on Microsoft Tea
• Special consideration will be given t o SAT/Tahsili/Qudrat/CA

and additional lessons will be added to this purpose.

7- DISTRIBUTION OF LESSONS AND LESSON DURATION
• The Students from Gr 1-12 receive 39 lessons per week (sync
• The duration of each synchronous lesson is not less than 4 0
• The KG Students receive 39 lessons per week (synchronous a
• The duration of synchronous lessons is not less than 30 minu
• The quota of the synchronous and asynchronous lessons has

8- LESSONS
• Lesson structure and delivery adhere to the standards and p

international best practice in terms of a student’s normal day
encourages development of transferable skills such as collabo
• The Physical Education (PE) department will record sessions
the necessary instructions. Some PE lessons will be synchrono
• Teachers are aware that different students learn in different w
and activities set during a lesson. There will be a variety of m
age group of the students.
• If a teacher is absent, a substitute teacher and a program will
learning.

ams as per grade level and section.
AIE support sessions: Additional lessons will be scheduled,

chronous and asynchronous lessons).
minutes for the primary, intermediate and secondary stages.
and asynchronous lessons).
utes for the kindergarten stage.
s been distributed considering the weight of each subject.

policies approved by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and
y-to-day learning, i.e. student-centred active approach that
oration and communication.

that will be uploaded on the school platform along with
ous.
ways and as such they are mindful of the length of tasks
methods and approaches to teaching, appropriate to the

l be set to ensure the continuity of the teaching and

9- WHAT TO EXPECT DURING SYNCHRONOUS LESSONS:
• Live streaming of lessons with real-time interaction of 4 0 min
• Students building connections with the teachers and each ot
• Relevant material prepared and uploaded at least 24 hours a

meant to initiate discussion on the topic.
• Teachers use a variety of resources necessary for differentiat
• Teachers using interactive features t o capture discussion and
• Lessons will be recorded for later reference by students and

purposes.
• Recorded lessons will be made available right after the sessio
• Lessons will be accompanied by associated activities that ma

presentations.

10- WHAT TO EXPECT DURING ASYNCHRONOUS LESSONS:
• Flexibly paced lessons.
• Offline access to lessons anytime.
• Material uploaded according to the timetable provided.
• Associated activities (may include discussion boards, quizzes
• Students have access to teachers during scheduled office- ho

pertaining to the uploaded lessons and their learning.

nutes.
her.
ahead of the scheduled synchronous Lesson, and which is

ted instruction.
d engage students.

parents, and for quality assurance and safeguarding

on for future reference.
ay include instant messaging, live chats and live

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s, polls, recorded audio or video, and digital documents).
ours to raise questions, discussion or ask for further support

11- CODE OF CONDUCT

 ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY: Students are expected to

• Attend all classes on time.
• Wear school uniform (for students in Grades 1– 12).
• Only use their own account and not impersonate another stu
• Sit in a quiet area free from noise and sources of distractions
• Inform the school administration in the case of absence.

 DEMEANOUR DURING LESSONS: Students are expected to:

• Keep their microphones muted until given permission to ope
• Click ‘raise hand’ to request to interact with the teacher.
• Operate the microphone and respond to the teacher when sp
• Use the chat box according to the instructions of the teacher
• Not to post any link or distracting material in the chat box.
• Not to make and distracting noise when using the microphon
• Speak and write respectfully.
• Use the camera according to teacher's specific instruction.
• Respect the privacy of their homes and the homes of others.
• Not to cause distraction on the video camera.
• Not to operate the ‘screen sharing’ feature without permissio
• Not to cause any distraction whilst using the online pen and w
• Not to display anything inappropriate either by screen sharin
• Violators of the provisions of this policy will held accountable

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udent.
s (such as a television).

rate it.
poken to.
r.
ne.

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on from the teacher.
whiteboard.
ng or webcam.
e per the MOE Code of conduct by law.

12- ASSESSMENTS

• Students will be exposed to a variety of online formative and
• Students’ engagement and participation during the live strea

and researches are part of their assessment and evaluation.
• Students may be called to attend and conduct a paper- pen
• All the MoE directives pertaining to assessments will be adhe

13- CYBER BULLYING:
• The school recognizes that a bullying incident should be trea

measures will be taken to protect students in accordance wi
Ministry of Education and the relevant Saudi authorities.

d summative assessments including continuous evaluation.
amed lessons and timely submission of homework, projects,
assessment on the school premises.
ered to.

ated as a child protection concern. Thus The necessary
ith the school internal regulations, and the regulations of the

E

E-LEARNING GUIDE

1.1 GROWING DEMAND FOR O

Education is evolving at a faster p
period in recent history and expo
hold the key to the future of Educ
technology advancements have e
classrooms and altered learning s
growing trend is online education
delivered over internet synchrono
asynchronously. Students can vir
classmates and teachers while si
class materials online.

ONLINE EDUCATION

pace than any other
nential technologies
cation. All these
expanded the borders of
styles. One such
n where the lessons
ously and/or
tually connect with
multaneously accessing

1.2 IMPACT OF COVID-19 OU

Furthermore, with growing healt
spread of Coronavirus (COVID-1
distance, and the recent MoE an
learning for 7 weeks in the first
to present best practices for pre
education considering cybersecu
presenting our offerings for sync
asynchronous educational servic
ensure education & learning con
support at Ma’arif schools opera

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h concerns due to the
19) that forces social
nnouncement for online
semester, we are going
eparations to online
urity aspects as well as
chronous and
ces and measures to
ntinuity and students
ated in Saudi Arabia.

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DEVICES &TOOLS

2.1 DEVICES SPECIFICATIONS

Ma'arif services for online education su

desktop and laptop devices and compu

minimum recommended for the most im
Windows devices
• Processor: Core i3 2 GHz or equivalen
• RAM: 4 GB RAM or greater
• Hard Disk: 3 GB of free space is availa
Mac devices
• Processor: Core i3 2 GHz or equivalen
• RAM: 2 GB RAM or greater
• Hard Disk: 3 GB of free space is availa
IOS devices
• IOS 10 or later
• iPad 5th generation or later
• iPad Pro 2nd generation or later
Android devices
• The last three official versions of Andr

upport various types of
uters; Here is the
mportant specifications.
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2.2 USING THE FIBER INTERNET
2.3
2.4 If fiber internet is available in your residenti
and beneficiaries of online education service
use it instead of relying on mobile data. The
• Speed and stability.
• High load capacity.
• Flexibility to upgrade if needed.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WI-FI ANTEN

Kindly follow those practices below regardi
study location for online education:
• Choose a high place in the middle of the h

antenna signal.
• Change the direction of the antenna till yo

signal quality.
• If there is a slow speed; you can restart th

browser.

USING OF HEADPHONES

It is preferable to use high-quality headpho
privacy during study time and to avoid inco
sure to charge it every day if it is wireless.

ial area; we encourage users
es to subscribe for fiber and
e advantage of fiber:

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ng the Wi-Fi antenna in
house to get the strongest
ou get the best possible
he router or switch to a faster

nes to preserve your
onvenience. Make

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THE ENVIRONMENT
P R E PA R AT I O N

HERE ARE SOME IMPORTANT PRACTICES TO IMP
YOUR ONLINE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE.

3.1 PREPARE FOR TECHNICAL CHALLENGE

• You may face some technical challenges wh

experience. Increasing the level of your tech

understand the challenges, deal with them, a
Ma'arif Schools’ support team through the v

resolved.
• You should not be shy if you have difficulty

and you have to ask for help from teachers,

family to explain the terms. This is normal an

3.2 GIVE OTHERS A CHANCE

If one of your family members is in a live lectu
teachers online; do not consume internet band
activities like entertainment, …etc. Also it’s imp
classes schedule, printing it and make it visible
classes.

PROVE

ES

hen preparing for your online education
hnology awareness will help you to
and t o describe them better t o the
various student support channels till

in understanding some technical terms,
, the support team, or others from your
nd evidence of your awareness.

ure or direct communication with classmates and
dwidth at home on unnecessary and less important
portant to inform your family about your virtual
e at home to avoid any inconvenience during live

3.3 USE THE APPROPRIATE BROWSER
3.4
3.5 The online education tools that Ma'arif pro
Internet browsers. However; we do recomm
experience and avoid opening multiple b
mandatory.

DEDICATE A SPACE TO STUDY

Dedicate a private study space with good lig
will allows you to focus more. It’s important
preserves the privacy of your family if you op

HEALTHY HABITS OF SYNCHRONOUS

We recommend adopting the following hab
live lectures and direct online communicati
• Turn off the camera before the start of the
unless needed and in a manner that does n
sticker over the camera.
• Turn off the microphone before the start of
it unless being requested by the teacher or
disturbing the attendees.
• When the lecture or direct online communic
end the communication in order to avoid th

vides to its students are supported by the various
mend using the Google Chrome browser for better
browser windows or tabs at a time unless it is

ghting and ventilation, other than a sleeping place,
to put the device or computer in a position that
pen camera or microphone.

S LEARNING

bits during
ion:
lesson, through Microsoft Teams; and not t o open it
ot harm the privacy of the home. You can p u t a

f the lesson through Microsoft Teams; and not t o open
when you have questions to ask in order to avoid

cation ends; kindly make sure to press the button to
he broadcast from your side unintentionally.

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CYBER SECURITY

To contribute for raising your security awa
and equipment, as well as your privacy, a
your hands a set of practices to achieve a

4.1 PROTECT THE INTERNET AT HOME
It is important to review the router setting
instructions of your device in order to app

• Enable encrypted wireless communicatio
if it is not available. Turn off the weak WAP

• Turn off the “Remote Management” featu
device's settings from outside the home.

• If the factory password used to manage t
password), change it to a strong password
and uppercase and lowercase letters. If the
complicated and difficult to remember, the

areness and protecting your information
and the privacy of your home; we put in
a safe online education experience.

gs for your home using the
ply the following settings:

ns by activating the WPA3 feature, or WPA2
P feature.

ure to prevent others from changing your

the router’s settings is weak (such as admin or
d that contains numbers, special characters,
e password printed on the device looks
en you can use it.

4.2 PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER OR LAPTO
It is important to perform the following

• Using licensed operating systems and ap
education. Ma'arif provides its students wi
Microsoft office suite for five different dev
instructions are available on the parent's M

• Automatic update of operating systems
education efficiently and stay protected.

• Activate and use the anti-virus or protec
follow its instructions to ensure it is upda
detected threats.

• Turn off all unnecessary communication
as Bluetooth and Hotspot, as they drain yo
hackers can exploit.

OP
practices:

pplications on your devices used in the online
ith the ability to download original copies of
vices free of charge using your MLG account. The
MLG accounts once they accessed it.

and applications will help your device run online

ction program feature in your device, and make sure to
ted automatically to keep pace with the latest

services and turn them on only when necessary, such
our device's battery and may open vulnerabilities that

4.3 BEWARE EMBEZZLEMENT IN ONLIN

Often this phenomenon occurs as follow
• The attacker calls a parent by phone a

education of your school.
• Requests for bank ATM or Visa card in
children’s' accounts in the system. This

schools when communicating with pare
• A text message with a verification num
• The attacker requests the message, an

directly the parent's bank account

4.4 FIRST EXPERIENCE
One of the most important tips that sho
online education services is to change t
such as choosing long passwords consi
characters. This feature is available from
can also recover your forgotten login d
data?" service. In both cases, you will re
registered mobile number to ensure pri
follow with the login details on your mo

NE EDUCATION
ws:
as a representative for online

nformation in order to activate
is what we never do across Ma'arif
ents.
mber is sent to the parent's device.
nd after receiving it, s/he charge

ould be followed upon the first use of
the password with best practices,
sting of letters, numbers and special
m within your account in MLG. You
data through the "Forgot your login
eceive an activation code to your
ivacy, then another message will
obile phone as well.

MLG LOGIN

How to get an account from (MLG) in case you forget you

DEAR PARENT/GUARDIAN,
We are pleased to introduce Ma'arif Learning Gateway (MLG) tha
an opportunity to follow your child's day-to-day learning

H O W TO GET STARTED?
As a parent helping your child make the most of learning, MLG of
you and your child. It all begins with a simple log-in at the web si
THEN C L I C K O N " F O R G O T LOG-IN DATA?".

https://mlg.maarif.co

Then enter your child student
number, which can be found on the
bill from the school or can be taken
from the Homeroom teacher. Then
press the button “Send Activation
Code”.

Finally, yo u will receive the log-in inform
via an SMS on your mobile, so your chil

urs or if you are a new user

at offers you

ffers the right tools for
te.

om.sa

Then enter the activation code that
you received via an SMS on the
mobile number registered in the
school records, and then click on
the button "Send Password".

mation for the educational portal (username and password)
ld can access the educational p o r t a l very easily.

SY
LE

YNCHRONOUS
EARNING TOOLS

Ma'arif provides its students with synchronous learning
integrating MLG with the Microsoft Office package inc
provide synergized package of synchronous learning s
audience. There are many services like:

5.1 LIVE LECTURES

An ideal simulation of the classroom, accord
with the teacher explaining the full educatio
presentations, an interactive whiteboard, ex
utilize technology in displaying various educ

5.2 DIRECT COMMUNICATION

Creative tools through chat and positive us
emoji, using "Raise your hand" feature for p
questions, and student interaction by sharin
the teacher and colleagues, with ability for s

g services through
cluding Microsoft Teams to
services to the target

ding to the class schedule,
onal capabilities of
xplaining the curriculum, and
cational resources.

sage of the attachment tool,
participation or asking
ng their screens and files with
student groups as well.

5.3 ARCHIVED LECTURES

Ability to record and archive all lectures for
students in case of late attendance or absen
All classroom activities are available per sub

5.4 ENRICHMENT MATERIAL

Every lesson has related enrichment academ
formats, including presentations, additional
materials for each lesson.

review, rerun and benefit of
nce for special circumstances.
bject course.

mic content with variety of
explanations, and audio-video

ASY
LEA

YNCHRONOUS
ARNING TOOLS

MLG provides its students with an integrat
support digital transformation of Ma'arif sc
online education process for its students.

6.1 LEARNING RESOURCES

Digital library for enrichment resources rela
skill in a variety of formats (photos - docum
according to a tree classification per subjec
and downloading features.

6.2 ONLINE ASSIGNMENTS
6.3
Auto-grading assignments for each lesson w
participation, research projects and sheets,
for each subject and the overall average of

SELF-ASSESSMENT

Enabling the student to self-evaluate their
assignments that previously assigned from
and log of all results and tracking the rate o
revisions especially before performing the p

ted package of services that
chools and the continuity of
There are many services like:

ated to each educational lesson and
ments - videos - YouTube links)
ct course, with browsing, viewing,

with the model answer after
detailed reports and average scores
performance during selected period.

performance according to the
their teachers with multiple trials
of improvement to benefit in
periodic tests.

6.4 STANDARDIZED TESTS
Standard periodic tests to measure educa
vacation and before the assessments thro
the academic level of each student and de
improvement plan. A detailed graph repo

6.5 NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Continuous communication with any scho
activities, weekly plans, with features of se
downloading their attachments.

6.6 E-CALENDAR
A whole calendar for whole academic y
ability t o browse b y day, week and month
All events with the date, place, pictures, a

tional level during the annual
oughout the semesters to determine
evelop an appropriate personalized
ort is available for the parent.

ool on important matters, events,
earching, arranging, browsing, and

year activities and events with the
h, easy navigation between periods.
and attachments.

6.7 DISCUSSION ROOMS

Discussion room per class level between the
classmate under the supervision of the tea
searching, browsing, downloading, and sha

6.8 STUDENT PORTFOLIO

A fully integrated student record that includ
and video events, in addition to the studen

score record in all school assessments, and

behavioral performance per subject.

6.9 SURVEYS

Continuous communication to get opinions
the educational directions of the school and
from educational partner (Parents).

6.10 OFFICE 365
Take advantage of the Office 365 package
aspects, as well as the supported education
that are prepared for the student.

e student and his/her
acher with the features of
aring of enriching materials.

des photos and videos albums
t’s academic achievements,
a graph of academic and

s about online education and
d collect constructive feedback

in the learning and other
nal games through Minecraft