CAMAGÜEY.- The coordination between the Ministry of Higher Education and the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa) made it possible for some of the services, especially those related to content, to be free of charge. In this sense, students can access free of charge: Virtual Learning Environment, Virtual Postgraduate Environment, Reduc Mail, Virtual Library, Cloud Storage.
Referring to this last platform, Julio Madera Quintana, first vice-rector, explained that it was already released by Wifi and Nauta Hogar with a capacity of 1GB for each user. "Students and teachers have their own storage space where they can store information, thus avoiding the size limitations that we had to date."
On the other hand, an application for online registration is already available to first-year students that will prevent the mobility of people and advance processes such as the creation of Internet accounts. For the latter, the manager clarified, the registration process must end and the secretariats update the information, only then will they be able to access the cloud.
Through the address: https://matricula.reduc.edu.cu, new entrants can complete the process. Inside, they will locate their identity card number in the username and password and after it is confirmed they will access the registration form. To finish they must attach a photo of the ID card in front and behind.
"Those students who for dissimilar reasons cannot register on the site should contact the teaching secretaries of their faculties so that they can manually enter their data," said Doraine Linares Jiménez, president of the Center's University Student Federation.
At the same time, the work was announced in the Municipal University Centers and the Young Computing Club so that young people without an Internet connection at home can access the contents from there.
"In addition, together with the vice-rector for training, we are promoting the use of videoconferences, especially for methodological work and guidance to students, two ways widely used in the previous stage for the defense of the thesis," concluded Madera Quintana.
Efforts at UC to advance an atypical teaching calendar are growing daily. According to its rector, Dr. C. Santiago Lajes Choy, “you couldn't wait for the situation to improve, you had to make decisions to move forward and not waste time. As long as everyone's health was taken care of, which is the most important thing right now ”.
- Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez