Do you put your camera on in online lessons?

I suppose the safeguarding issue is not so much being able to see students bedrooms, but students having total freedom over what everyone else in the room sees. There is a risk that on a students' camera there could be things that the other students ought not to see, be that deliberate or accidental. Then there is the issue of storing a load of recordings of children somewhere. I know some schools are making their lesson recordings available to all the pupils in the class. This could open opportunities for bullying by allowing pupils to return to the recording and dissect the appearance or background of different individuals.

The opposite is also a safeguarding risk. School teachers normally see pupils in person Monday-Friday. If something is wrong, if a child is being abused, if there's something the school ought to be aware of, seeing the child physically is usually a very good way of picking up the signs that this is happening. If a school hasn't physically seen a child since December, they could be being exposed to some horrific things while at home and that's not being detected by the school. Which you could argue is a failure of duty of care.

So as you can see, there are issues with each approach, and that's why schools vary in their policies.

I suppose the safeguarding issue is not so much being able to see students bedrooms, but students having total freedom over what everyone else in the room sees. There is a risk that on a students' camera there could be things that the other students ought not to see, be that deliberate or accidental. Then there is the issue of storing a load of recordings of children somewhere. I know some schools are making their lesson recordings available to all the pupils in the class. This could open opportunities for bullying by allowing pupils to return to the recording and dissect the appearance or background of different individuals.

The opposite is also a safeguarding risk. School teachers normally see pupils in person Monday-Friday. If something is wrong, if a child is being abused, if there's something the school ought to be aware of, seeing the child physically is usually a very good way of picking up the signs that this is happening. If a school hasn't physically seen a child since December, they could be being exposed to some horrific things while at home and that's not being detected by the school. Which you could argue is a failure of duty of care.

So as you can see, there are issues with each approach, and that's why schools vary in their policies.

yeah I agree, we don't need to put our camera on though but we use the chat to discuss or the microphone. But it gets awkward sometimes when the teacher asks a question and no one answers

My school requires all students to turn on their camera and continuously look at it during lessons. We need to send our notes to teachers and do tons of independent study in the afternoon.
We need to wear uniforms in lessons and WE MUST STAND UP IF IT IS NEEDED.
Someone turned off the camera for 3 seconds and he was penalised. Another was penalised for a 1-minute bathroom break in class. That is insane.

how are you penalised?

Wow never thought of it like this. (@ANM775 what do think of this post?)

My school requires all students to turn on their camera and continuously look at it during lessons. We need to send our notes to teachers and do tons of independent study in the afternoon.
We need to wear uniforms in lessons and WE MUST STAND UP IF IT IS NEEDED.
Someone turned off the camera for 3 seconds and he was penalised. Another was penalised for a 1-minute bathroom break in class. That is insane.

that sound like restrcting human rights if im honest.

My school requires all students to turn on their camera and continuously look at it during lessons. We need to send our notes to teachers and do tons of independent study in the afternoon.
We need to wear uniforms in lessons and WE MUST STAND UP IF IT IS NEEDED.
Someone turned off the camera for 3 seconds and he was penalised. Another was penalised for a 1-minute bathroom break in class. That is insane.

yeah that's kinda the same w/ us too.. the teachers said they'd give us behaviour points if we didn't put our cameras on, but i haven't put mine on for the past fortnight and i haven't gotten any yet lolll

(also omg its an army i'm an army too !!💜)