chennai in a major boost to the efforts by the school education department video lectures uploaded by kalvi tv an exclusive educational channel run by the state have garnered more than a million views in a matter of weeks the videos of class x lessons are particularly popular among students and these also include sign languagethe lessons packaged as 30minute episodes imitate a classroom lecture more than 95 of our viewers are locals but people from sri lanka singapore us and the middle east also access our lectures said p a naresh special officer for kalvi tv and joint director vocational education school education department after the lectures are broadcasted on kalvi tv they are uploaded on youtube the following daymore than 8500 teachers lecturers from district institute of education and training diet and subject experts from state council for educational research and training scert are involved in content creation they prepare videos based on the learning outcome for each topic in the textbook mapping competency and microcompetency skillsonce the video is recorded it is verified by subject experts and then edited before going on air kalvi tv also telecasts speical session for clearing students doubts on saturday and music dance and fine arts programmes on sunday it is also broadcasting lessons for neet and jee exams every day for six hours till the end of august the idea is to bring regular school to childrens doorsteps we want to make sure that covid does not affect learning naresh saidthe department is planning to create 9089 video episodes covering class i to xii in both tamil and english it has so far uploaded 762 videos the telecast schedule also resembles school timings lessons for class ix and x students are scheduled from 8am to 1pm and for other classes from 1pm to 7pm lessons for class xii students have been uploaded to their laptops in the first few weeks bridge classes were broadcast for students of classes ii to ix the actual lessons began this weekbecause of covid content is created to achieve the learning outcome for a particular portion of textbooks it would be useful even if the textbook changes as learning outcome would remain the same so it would be relevant for a long time said school education commissioner sigy thomas vaidyan the lectures are packaged like a classroom it is a half an hour delivery they will summarise what they are going to teach and the takeaways from the class we are eagerly waiting for the feedback from our viewers and soon set up a system to respond to every comment posted by viewers she said