The economic downturn, inconvenience, and restrictions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic was a shot in the gut to the world’s economies. One of its most affected sectors was education, which forced educational institutions to quickly adapt and innovate on how they will cater a non-face-to-face school set-up and provide a virtual learning environment to its students that are both convenient and efficient to its students and instructors.
According to the figures of the Department of Education (DepEd), enrollment in kindergarten up to senior high school for the school year 2020-2021 dropped more than 25 percent from a year ago. With these expectations, one of the obvious ways to mitigate further effect is to provide a medium for students to be able to enroll online. The University of the Visayas tapped Mindweb eSolutions to create and handle its virtual learning environment and included in the package is the online enrollment system.
Mindweb’s Online Enrollment System is a web application that can be used anytime and anywhere and can be accessed through any web browser. It is designed to be mobile responsive and user friendly, which makes it easy to navigate. It can easily process online enrollments for both freshmen and non-freshman students and let them plot their subject schedule with convenience. Enrollees can easily attach a softcopy of their enrollment requirements. Students can view the history of their enrollment and also can check their study load through the web application. Users of the web application can easily be monitored.
With this Online Enrollment System, learners can be admitted to the university in single browsing of this web application. It helps in mitigating the actual interaction of learners in school; hence, optimum health safety plus convenience are achieved.
The Mindweb eSolutions Team with the assist of the UV ICTD Team, conducted a comprehensive IT Infrastructure and Employee Skill Assessment at the University of the Visayas Main Campus last November 06, 2020, to gauge the magnitude of a system overhaul that will be used as the basis for the proposal of a new UV ICT organizational structure lead by the Mindweb eSolutions Team.
This initiative was spearheaded by Engr. Wilcris Cortes, the CEO of Mindweb eSolutions, with him were Dr. Edgardo Cortes, Mindweb’s VP of External Relations, Engr. Stephanie Grace Villarubia, Mindweb’s Operations Manager, with the help of Mr. Neilroy Impas, UV Communications and Public Affairs Head, Mr. Roel Belarmino, and Mr. Romulo Villanueva of the UV ICTD. These assessments will be the first step in making long-lasting, critical changes to the UV ICTD environment. The goals were to identify issues requiring immediate attention and to understand the current standing of the existing technology infrastructure. The outputs of these assessments will be integral for future infrastructure upgrades. All school servers and the laboratory computers were carefully examined. The current computer network implementation was thoroughly inspected and the computer applications that the UV ICT Team hosted and maintained were also deliberately checked.
Mindweb eSolutions is the strategic partner of the University of the Visayas, who helped the university in laying the foundation of a quality, flexible, and efficient virtual learning environment in response to the inconvenience and restrictions brought by the pandemic. The project’s goal was to adapt and to continue to provide a well-rounded, relevant education that will prepare its students for the future and empower them for success, even during this kind of situation we currently experiencing. With this meaningful collaboration, UV was recognized by the CHED-7 as the best presenter during the webinar on “Preparation of all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Sharing of Best Practices and Developmental Plans for the New Normal/Flexible Learning Environment, Concerning Services for Student Welfare and Development: Student Affairs”. With all these accomplishments, the blossoming partnership of UV and Mindweb is now starting to solidify. UV offered Mindweb to take over the whole management of the UV ICTD, which was the main reason for the aforementioned assessments conducted by the latter.
