Some SLAS Students Are Still Trapped Abroad
by Ella Oh
12 | SLAS TIMES
Because of the pandemic , some students are still trapped abroad , and they are required to attend class online using MS Teams . MS Teams allows students to send assignments , contact teachers , and have video conference classes .
High infection rates around the world caused the Chinese border to close to most nationalities . According to voice . baidu . com ( Sept . 14 , 2020 ), in Shanghai , there are 947 people infected with COVID-19 , and there were seven deaths .
Abroad , there are over seven million infected people , mostly in the USA and South America .
There are many students locked down now in Japan , and most are having classes with MS Teams . During the lockdown , students had to deal with time differences . Some students needed to wake up at midnight in their time zones to attend classes live in Shanghai .
Minami is a student attending online classes from Japan . She plans to come back to Shanghai in October , and she thinks MS Teams is easy to work with and adapt to . She prefers MS Teams because she likes how it combines elements of Zoom and Edmodo .
Students like Minami and others say they miss their friends in Shanghai .