Students feedback on the forced transition to online classroom during Covid-19

Social distancing has become a new normal for a university in Thailand due to the Covid-19 pandemic since mid-March 2020. All traditional classes in a face-to-face style, therefore, were forced to be conducted online. This study presents the survey of students’ reaction to online classrooms and the adaptability to the online classroom of both students and instructors from the department of industrial engineering, Thammasat University. Students' feedback was collected after the first week of online classroom. The result shows that, in the beginning, there were several problems reported from students, such as the confusion of different platforms used among all courses, sense of isolation, lack of equipment of students, and limited skills of using the online teaching platform of instructors. The most recommended online classroom platforms by students are Zoom for online meetings and Microsoft Teams for learning management systems. It seems that the most concern for students is lacking peer interaction and the learning atmosphere as provided in the traditional classroom. The results of this study were then used as decisive information for the improvement of students’ experience of the online classrooms