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His Majesty the Sultan emphasized the importance of education, as this year was announced to be the Year of Blended Learning. Accordingly, the start date of the academic year was set in consideration of the health situation and to give the Ministry sufficient time to prepare for blended learning. We are working to establish a sustainable blended learning system. Since blended learning is a new system at the national level — despite the existence of a number of technical initiatives — it is certain that many challenges will arise, which we will address as they come...

An electronic educational platform established by the Ministry of Education, whose name was inspired by the Omani national identity. The platform is directed at grades one through four, where students receive lessons, activities, and assessments in virtual classrooms. Students have access to study units with the ability to communicate, interact, and chat between teachers and students, track assignments, award grades, attach various documents, and set lesson schedules and timings.

It is an educational service provided by Google that enables teachers to create virtual classrooms for academic subjects, prepare assignments, interact in real time with their students, guide them while completing assigned tasks, evaluate those assignments, award grades, and send comments and discussions to students. Various documents can also be attached, and materials and files can be saved for future reference, in addition to an academic calendar showing lesson and exam schedules. The platform works on smartphones, tablets, and personal computers.

Microsoft Teams, commonly referred to simply as Teams, is one of the Office 365 applications that integrates with its various apps to achieve shared work goals built on continuous and constructive communication among members of the same organization. It is a virtual platform that combines the ability to hold video and audio meetings with the ability to create different teams to exchange all types of files and collaborate on their execution, in addition to sharing expertise, ideas, and various topics and discussing them to reach outcomes that fulfill work objectives.