ULS enables Google Meet as an alternative support to Zoom for video conferencing

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This tool, enabled by CICULS on the Phoenix platform, will facilitate online classes and teleworking sessions through video calls.

With the aim of improving and facilitating both academic and administrative work carried out by the University of La Serena in times of #StayAtHome, the Information and Computing Center of the university has agreed, together with Google, on the unlimited use of videoconferencing through of the Google Meet platform, which has been enabled within the Phoenix platform since this Tuesday, March 24.

Google Meet is a tool that allows online work for academics, students and non-academic officials, in a simple and effective way, using the data network through multiple platforms: telephone, tablet or computers, through the Internet or Intranet and the cellular network.

“At CICULS we are attentive to the needs of our community and we try to progressively respond to them. For everyone - students, academics and curricular managers - the change to online teaching has been a challenge. Also for our administrative community that today supports its operation through teleworking. All of the above puts pressure on the institutional capacity in technological infrastructure and human resources associated with virtual platforms, but at the same time accelerates technological adoption processes that will be, in the long run, very beneficial for the ULS,” says Andrés Moya, Director of CICULS.

Google Meet joins other tools enabled by the university as technological supports for the development of remote work and teacher-student interaction.

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