A review of the online studies in addressing challenges faced by students and lecturers while attending to classes at Makerere University in Margret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art.

Abstract

Many National and International Universities changed the system of studies after the broke up of Covid-19 that sparked off and registered in the world. This called for closure of all government sectors and institution and all students went back to their houses to be with parents. The stake holders came in with a lot of conversations on how they would keep the education sector to keep running. This mostly started from the developed countries and because they has the capacity and tools to carry out online classes, more especially in the United Kingdom and a number of challenges were addressed and discussed and later proceedings were taken and hence online classes were introduced and adopted. However the following are the problems that were discoved which mostly affect both the students and teachers while studying online.Socio Economic Disparities,Technical Difficulties,Passiveness Among Students, Lack of Control and Discipline, Isolation, Lack of Motivation, Data Security, However, Makerere University Senate introduced ODEL "open distance elearning" to all students because it had initially been catering for a specific group of people, all students embraced it and opened user accounts to the university systems which had been developed specifically for online studying such Makerere University E-learning Environment (MUELE). This was a very a new system to both students and lecturers to interact with. It has a lot of challenges which do affect both the students and lectures because the problems are general and to be solved it needs both the government, ministry of 2 education, and National council for higher education to sit down and address them and try to solve them because they are negatively affecting the progress of education in Uganda because tools required are not easily available for use and more especially very expensive to purchase. This comes when most of the students are computer illi