AIOU's online learning system frustrates students, call it "a mess".

ISLAMABAD -- A large majority of Allama Iqbal Open University students expressing displeasure, over online learning and management system's poor connectivity and abrupt failure, have called it "a mess".

AIOU management's two online learning and management initiatives, Campus Management System (CMS) and Learning Management System (LMS) that switched over traditional education have failed to produce desired results.

The students from all over the country have complained about the constantly interrupted or failed connectivity with the university's application meant for online classes. Hours' long daily power load-shedding, they said, was worsening the situation.

An undergraduate student Naeem from Bahawalpur sharing his ordeal with this scribe said, 'The internet facility is slow here. Sometimes the websites are too busy and connectivity with university's app is not ensured. Thus we miss our classes'. Sometimes moderators' non-availability online is also an element needed to be addressed, he complained.

Another female student Sadia from Jhelum complained, "Login system causes problems, as many users try to log in simultaneously, it doesn't connect".

A student Uzma from Lahore voicing her concern said, 'System seems to be overburdened and it has no capacity to accommodate maximum students who join the class at the same time, the website fails to respond'.

Uzma requested the university management to give some flexibility in attendance keeping in mind the current energy crisis and internet connectivity problem.

A University official, privy to the issue requesting anonymity, admitted that both online apps CMS and LMS have problems and...

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