Written by: Wan Safraa Nasuha binti Wan Haron  

Inter-University Online Sharing Session is a new program introduced by the public relation bureau of Society of Pharmacy Students (SOPHYS) UiTM Puncak Alam in collaboration with UniKL RCMP and Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) Indonesia to provide a platform for pharmacy students from different universities in Malaysia and outside of Malaysia to share their experience related to their struggles in studies in the middle of the pandemic COVID-19.

This program was conducted to keep up with the current issue related to COVID-19 which has been affecting not only our daily life routine but also life as students as due to the pandemic outbreak, there were no physical classes and students had to go through the semester and fulfill all the requirements by the faculty through the online methods. The program was held on 19 September 2020 through a live stream from the PSS RCMP Facebook page from 8 pm to 10:30 pm (Malaysia time).

On 19 September 2020, the event was conducted as planned and questions such as suggestions from students’ perspectives to improve the open distance learning methods were asked to the speakers from each university. Feedbacks regarding the suggestions to overcome the struggles of online and open-distance learning from the students were then be compiled in form of infographic poster and was distributed and published in the SOPHYS social media to help other students prepare for the next semester of online and open distance learning.