though online classes were initially a challenge for students and teachers alike over the past few months there have been instances when teachers and lecturers have had a good laugh during online classes be it peeping pets or students taking classes while in bed teachers share some incidents that have made them laugh and even tested their patiencesomeone would always mute me during classmarianne furtado de nazareth adjunct faculty who has been taking online classes for two popular colleges in the city says that during one of her classes a student would put her on mute i dont know how that would happen but someone would always put me on mute it was frustrating at first because i would talk and then students would complain that they couldnt hear me and i was frustrated so after having a word with the management i decided to trick the students i told them that the college management had installed a software that could track who was putting me on mute repeatedly and since that day it stopped she smilescurious visitors during classfr richard rego associate professor at st josephs college autonomous says that there have always been curious visitors peeking into the camera during online classes there have been several instances where parents the domestic help or even younger siblings of the student would get curious and peek into the camera while a class was in session sometimes even pets get curious and its funny says fr richard adding i have also seen students taking classes in bed when they have just woken up many times students do not switch on their video and when i ask them to i see them sleeping dozing off while attending classparents prompting children during classwhile many parents keep an eye out during their childs online classes some even attend the classes along with them and prompt them to answer when required lekha geroge professor department of botany at mount carmel college says that during one of her online classes she could hear parents prompting a student to answer i was surprised because this was a college student so many times ive seen or even heard parents attending the class with their kids says lekha adding there are also times when students forget to mute themselves and we hear pets in the background parents talking and even the television we are used to it now because not all students have a room to themselves