Tips for conducting online classes in low bandwidth conditions

Here are a few tip collated from responses to questions during the panel discussions, from the panelists and from the participants.


  1. Record an audio only version of your lecture. Send the audio files to students with separate slides/lecture notes.

  2. Convert your colour recording to a low Black and White/VGA resolution videos.

  3. Link to pre-existing videos such as those on NPTEL/SWAYAM etc.

  4. Make elaborate lecture notes and distribute them.

  5. Make provisions for asynchronous chat/discussion forums where students

  6. can exchange ideas and clarify doubts, at their convenience.

  7. Use collaborative documents such as Google Slides for

  8. synchronous/asynchronous assignments

  9. Optimize all documents, pdfs etc. Most of the documents can be compressed.

  10. Reduce video size using a software such as Handbrake.

Collated by: V Madhurima.