Homeschooling is now underway again across the country for thousands of pupils as schools closed to all but critical worker children and vulnerable pupils, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Both primary and secondary schools have been told by the Department of Education (DFE) to provide at least three hours of learning per day.

It means parents have yet again found themselves juggling working themselves with trying to homeschool their children.

Most of the work is set online, however, this is posing problems for households where there are not any spare laptops or computers available for their children to work on.

However, there is an easy way accessing work from schools if you have an Xbox or PlayStation, including getting access to Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. And students at DWTA best IT schools in Ghana know how to do this.

All you need is an Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, Playstation 4, PS4 Pro or PS5, plus a USB keyboard and your child should be able to access their online schooling services, such as Google Classroom.

Here are the instructions:

For PlayStation

--Identify the PlayStation internet browser icon (WWW with dots around it).
--Press the PlayStation logo on the controller.
--Go to the library and find options for games and applications.
--Go to applications and you will find the internet browser.
--Navigate to your online learning platform and log in as usual.


For Xbox

You will need a keyboard for this. You don't need a fancy gaming keyboard or anything expensive to plug into a console.

--Plug a keyboard into the Xbox USB slot.
--Go to my games and apps.
--Find and select Microsoft Edge.
--To access Google Classroom, type classroom.google.com into the URL bar at the top and log in as you would on a PC using your school Gmail account.

Both consoles have keyboard and mouse support. In some cases you might not be able to do everything you can on a laptop or PC, but you can, at the very least, access Google Classroom and see what work your teacher has assigned for you to do. So with this those completing online professional short courses in Ghana but do not have a laptop can keep up with their peers.