On June 8,over 10,000 back-to-campus undergraduate students in KUST started to have classeson campuses as planned. Both teachers and students were readyfor theteaching and learningin good spirits amidthesound and orderly organization of the university.

At 7:50 a.m., Vice President SHU Hongchun, together with the heads ofDivision of Teaching Administration,Division of Student Administration, Information Centre and all relevant faculties inspected the very first classes for this spring semester on Chenggong Campus. All the teachers arrived at the classrooms early before the classes started, getting everything ready for their teaching; all the students came to the classrooms on time, showing their readiness to learn.

SHU Hongchun chaired ameeting aftertheinspection, in which 28faculties made their reviews onthe attendance ofthe on-campusstudents, the teaching plans of next three weeks,theonline teachingplans for the off-campus students and the preparations for the finalexams. In the meeting, SHU stressedthat allfaculties should specify their teaching strategies forabetter connection between online and offline classes based on the requests of the syllabusand the teaching progressto ensure the completeness of teaching content and avoid any teaching degradation.Emphasis was put on full consideration about the complexity of organizing the final exam. And simultaneous online and offline exams should be respectively arrangedafter each faculty figures outtheexactnumbers of the studentsonandoff thecampus so as to ensure the fairness of the exam andreduce thestudents’anxiety about not being able to take the exams.

TheDepartment of Physical Education hasmade full preparations for thesmooth transformation from online teachingtoground teaching.The Department of Physical Educationhas made the “Ba Duan Jin” exercise, akind of traditional Chinese martial arts part of their classes,enabling the students tokeep physically and spiritually fit and have fun during classes.

It isreported that from this week on,Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Faculty of Science and the Engineering Training Center will start their practicalteaching arrangementone after another. Elaborateteaching preparationshave been made includingsterilizationin the classrooms and labs as planned, ensuring progress in both teaching andthe COVID-19epidemic prevention and control.Withwell-planned preparations,classroom teaching for back-to-campus undergraduateshas beenwellcarried out under thejoint effort of alldivisions, faculties, and departmentsof KUST.

Translated by: LI Meilin, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures

Edited by: WANG Ying, School of International Education

Issued by: Division of Overseas Cooperation (English)

Source：Division of Teaching Administration(Chinese)

Edited by: KUST News Center (Chinese)