Online Explanation Text Writing Skills Learning (Case Study in Class Viii Smp Negeri 1 Bangsal, Mojokerto Districts for the 2020/2021 Academic Year)

SMP Negeri 1 Bangsal has implemented online learning in accordance with a government circular. Online learning often confuses students in communicating with subject teachers. Online learning tends to limit teachers in conveying material, this is one of the obstacles experienced by teachers. The purpose of this research is to 1) describe the learning plan for writing explanatory text skills online for class VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Bangsal, Mojokerto Regency, 2) describe the implementation of teaching learning skills for writing explanatory texts online for class VIII students at SMP Negeri 1 Bangsal, Mojokerto Regency, 3) describe the assessment of learning the skills of writing explanatory texts online in class VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Bangsal Mojokerto Regency, 4) describe the constraints and solutions to learning skills of writing explanatory texts online in class VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Bangsal Mojokerto Regency. The form of this research is descriptive qualitative. The data in this study are in the form of written data and oral data. In this study using data collection techniques in the form of interviews, observation, and study of documents. The validity of research data in qualitative research has three ways, namely triangulation, informant review, and member check. Data analysis techniques in this study are data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study concluded that: 1) The learning plan for writing explanatory text skills online prepared by the teacher has not paid attention to the components of the lesson plans in Permendikbud number 22 of 2016. 2) The implementation of learning skills to write explanatory texts is broadly not in accordance with lesson planning. 3) Assessment in learning explanatory text writing skills is the teacher conducting project assessments and class assessments. 4) the obstacles that occur in the learning activities of writing explanatory text skills include teacher and student constraints. The solution in this study is for teachers to re-understand the guidelines for the learning process, as well as for students to utilize other learning resources