Student assessment of online tools to foster engagement during the COVID-19 quarantine

Abstract

Lima KR, das Neves BS, Ramires CC, dos Santos Soares M, Martini VA, Lopes LF, Mello-Carpes PB. Student assessment of online tools to foster engagement during the COVID-19 quarantine. Adv Physiol Educ 44: 679-683, 2020; doi:10.1152/advan.00131.2020.—As a result of the installation of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 19) pandemic, online education has become an important teaching alternative, and new challenges about how to teach were found. Here we report our experience in offering an online course to review Human Physiology. We proposed synchronous and asynchronous activities using different online tools to address topics considered key to understanding the different systems of human physiology. The students considered important the use of this type of methodology, which uses different online tools to help understand the Human Physiology contents. The students highlighted the use of the Lt platform, Zoom, Mentimeter, and YouTube as the preferred online tools to use in physiology learning.