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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - Despite current breakdowns in video conferences, School Senator Ties Rabe (SPD) sees "dramatic progress" in the digitization of Hamburg schools due to the corona.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, efforts have been increased significantly, he said in town hall on Tuesday.
“We have more than tripled the numbers in the last nine months for the expansion of WLAN, the procurement of laptops and tablets and the installation and use of good learning programs.
That is certainly unique in Germany. "
Still, much remains to be done.
The weak points include outdated servers that are used in individual schools instead of cloud-based learning software, and capacity bottlenecks in the city's fiber-optic network.
Disruptions in the video conferences are due to problems of the school platform provider IServ, which, according to him, have now been resolved. The fact that “of all things, this program, which was previously beyond any doubt”, now “began to falter” is “regrettable”. If the problems persist, "other things must be possible as an emergency measure for a limited time," said the Senator. Hamburg has so far rejected the use of video conferencing software from large commercial providers such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams at the 371 state schools with reference to data protection concerns.