With the current ban of public gatherings in Uganda which includes schools, universities and tertiary institutions, we expect business to continue as usual but this time around from our homes.
Several schools and universities have been asked to send all their students back home, in some cases, people travelling from abroad have been asked to subject themselves to self-quarantine. But what does this all mean, that even when you’re home you may need to catch up studies with your classmates? or continue working on a project remotely.
Roke Telkom recognizes the need for people to work and study from home especially in this hard times of the novel coronavirus pandemic outbreak. The company just like MTN did with their work from home internet bundles is now offering Roke plus an internet connection that comes with free data access to the following online collaboration tools.
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Google classrooms
With Roke plus at your home, you can access google classrooms for free. Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students
Google Hangout
This is another popular collaboration tool you can access with the roke plus internet connection at your home. With Hangouts, you can do the live calling and realtime catchup with students or workmates.
Office 365
With this, you can get an online version of Microsoft word, excel just on your laptop freely with Rokespot plus.
Teams
Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage, and application integration
Skype
Skype is a popular video and teleconferencing platform that will allow you to catch up with work much more frequently via video calling without actually spending a penny even better no penny on data with Roke Telkom. similar to skype is zoom.
Trello
Trello will allow you & your workmates to collaborate effectively. Trello allows you to organize your projects as boards hence making it easy to know who is doing what and at what time.
To get started, you may need to check and see whether RokeTelkom internet coverage is already in your area here.