The Singapore Ministry of Education says it will allow teachers to progressively resume the use of video-conferencing tool Zoom, with controls in place. — TODAY pic
Last Thursday, MoE suspended the use of Zoom for home-based learning after it was made aware of two security breaches. Giving an update on the security breaches yeterday, Aaron Loh, MoE’s divisional director for educational technology, said that the ministry took the incidents very seriously and have made police reports.
He outlined three “layers of defence” that MoE has put in place for the use of the video-conferencing platform. Second, the ministry will centrally restrict the features of Zoom to avoid abuse or misuse. These include disabling screen annotation and screen sharing as well as the use of the whiteboard feature.