Extent of Knowledge of College Students towards E-learning Platforms during COVID-19 Pandemic

Many countries ordered closure of all educational institutes due to COVID-19. A sample of 300 students was selected from all the 6 constituent colleges of Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan. Students from 2^nd and 3^rd year were selected from which 50 students was selected randomly from each college to study the extent of knowledge of students regarding e-learning platforms during COVID-19. Data collection was done through “Google Forms” which was sent on Whatsapp and e-mail. This study reveals that the respondents had good knowledge about the Zoom (MPS 74.9) and average knowledge about Cisco Webex (52.9) in comparison to other three e-learning platforms which include Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Google Classroom in which respondents possessed poor knowledge with MPS of 22.23, 26.76 and 11.6 respectively. The study concludes that among all the 5 e-learning platforms the students had good knowledge about Zoom platform as just after the lockdown this platform was being used by majority of the faculty for online teaching.