Abstract:

On 14 March 2020, the Spanish government decrees a state of alarm due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Citizens are confined to their homes and University students attend classes virtually. With the beginning of the academic year 2020-21 the University of Granada continues with videoconference classes.

Tutorgrados 3.0 is an innovative project and good teaching practices (PIBD) granted by the Quality, Innovation and Planning Unit of the FIDO plan (2020-22) of the University of Granada. The PIBD is constituted by 28 members (20 teachers, 2 administrative staff and 6 students), who organize, disseminate and carry out the activities during every academic year. The project organizes informative conferences, seminars and workshops which provide a professional, personal and academic orientation to students of the three degrees of the Faculty of Pharmacy (Pharmacy, Human and Dietetic Nutrition, and Food Science and Technology).

These activities are carried out through using the Google Meet platform. Given that there are three time bands in the Centre, two in the morning and one in the afternoon, the time slot 15:00-16:00 is chosen for most of the activities. At the beginning of each semester, the timetable is available on the Centre's website. Attendance is collected through Google Forms and an anonymous satisfaction survey is carried out for each activity. During the academic year 2020-21, 18 informative conferences and workshops have been organized for students of all courses. Moreover, 28 seminars were held to reinforce basic subjects for student of first course of these grades. The maximum capacity allowed for Google Meet sessions is 250 people and almost all of the different activities have reached capacity.

The teachers who are members of Tutorgrados 3.0 belong to different departments and professional categories, and in order to expand and improve their training in the important and essential teaching work of tutoring, they also have formed a teaching team called Tutor-Acción in the academic year 2020-21 within the framework of Teaching Teams for Continuous Training of the FIDO plan (2020-22) of the University of Granada.

All the activities have been widely accepted by University students, highlighting the active participation and continuous interaction of students and teachers at all times. Likewise, the level of satisfaction of both students and teachers has been high for all the activities carried out during the academic year. This personal orientation and tutorial action plan has allowed the adaptation of university students to the new academic situation derived from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords:

Higher education, tutorial innovation, lockdown, virtual learning, COVID-19.