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Normally, the first day of classes only happens once a semester.
Not this semester. Harvard students found themselves navigating a second first day of classes Monday as courses made their online debuts on Zoom.
The transition comes a week after students were asked to move off-campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As students resumed classwork after spring break, Monday marked the first day students and professors made the shift to remote learning.
Harvard is one of many universities to move its classes online using Zoom — a video conference platform — as part of an effort to de-densify its campus. In the week leading up to the launch of online classes, faculty and teaching staff received training on how to use the software.
Despite the training and trial runs, however, Monday morning did not pass without technical difficulties.
The 10:30 a.m. Zoom lecture for Economics 10b: "Principles of Economics" — one of the courses with the highest enrollment at the College — was delayed approximately 40 minutes due to issues with the invite link. Divided between three separate “breakout” rooms on Zoom, the students and two professors were at first unable to join the same virtual meeting space.
David I. Laibson ’88, who co-teaches Ec 10b, said he was disappointed the first Zoom class got off to a shaky start.
“We feel terrible that people had to wait too long for the lecture to begin and then had it run past the allotted time,” he said. “We’re disappointed that this is the way the second half of the semester began.”
The Ec 10b teaching staff had about 20 practice sessions leading up to the first online lecture following Spring Break, all of which “worked like a charm,” according to Laibson.