Urgent measures are being taken to prevent the threat of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Azerbaijan. Taking into account the suspension of classes due to the necessary measures related to the coronavirus, in accordance with the instructions and recommendations of the Ministry of Education, the teaching process at Sumgayit State University has been organized online.

Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management Aynura Yahyayeva said that, as in all faculties, the teachers of the Faculty of Economics and Management began to conduct classes on WhatsApp from March 12. Classes are held in accordance with the schedule of classes held at the university, the lecture of the lecturer is read with the participation of students included in the WhatsApp group. As a result of the joint work of lecture and class teachers, the lessons are clearly explained to the students.

The dean also noted that students use the Zoom meeting online and Trueconf online systems used to organize online classes, have joined the moodle.sdu.edu.az system developed as part of the university's Erasmus + project. Then, with the technical support of Microsoft, the Ministry of Education launched the Microsoft Teams platform to provide students with the opportunity to master educational programs and organize the learning process remotely during the suspension of the educational process. At present, the registration of students of the Faculty of Economics and Management with the Moodle system is almost complete. In the first, second and third courses, all teaching materials were distributed to 35 groups and students were provided with those materials. In addition, the work is underway to post on the sites the state exam questions in the graduation courses and the questions related to the exams of the 2019/2020 spring semester in the I, II and III courses.

Incomplete classes of the first courses in the part-time direction of education and from April 1, classes of the second and third courses are also held online. Work with moodle.sdu.edu.az and Microsoft Teams is still ongoing. For this purpose, a group of university coordinators has been created and the instructions obtained from it are immediately delivered to teachers. Tutors and group leaders have been involved in this work.