POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

ENGL 20063 BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS

Name: Gonzaga, Czaskizza D. Professor: Carlos A. Garcia

Course/Section: BSBA MM 3-1N Date: February 7, 2022

Activity 6

The Tie Back

A. Direction: Write a one-page report covering two weeks of meeting one of your online/ offline
classes. Comment on the subject presented, problems discussed, the challenges of the medium
used, and professor’s remarks.

TWO WEEK ONLINE CLASS IS PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SUBJECT PRESENTED

Product Management will equip students what the industry demands in academic

excellence and comprehensive knowledge provision in becoming a winning professional in the

future. Product management is aligned in business courses such as Entrepreneurship and

Marketing Management. It is one of our major courses in our 3rd Year at PUP College of Business

Administration. For the last two weeks of January 2022, we prepared our Marketing Plan, Product

Brief Proposal and New Product Development Process Plan for the submission of Final

Requirements on this course.

PROBLEMS DISCUSSED

On the beginning of the year, our professor in this subject informed us about the said papers

that we need to submit. We attended her class and talked about the subject matter. The meeting

was just brief for she is not feeling well at the moment. That is why we needed to listen carefully

on the instructions that she told us. The meeting ended abruptly which caused us confusion because

the instructions are not clear at all. Our president decided to send a private message to our professor

for follow up questions but she was ignored for days which lead us to expressing our

resourcefulness and independence. We did the research and cite resources for the most reliable

outline that we should follow on making the Marketing Plan as well as our Product Brief Proposal.

We are still working on our papers at the moment and our professor is yet to be heard of.

CHALLENGES OF THE MEDIUM USED

BSBA MM 3-1N consists of 44 students. 17 of us are under correspondence mode of

learning which means that they are the ones who haven’t been able to join online classes because

of lack of gadgets and internet connection. Going back with the papers that we need to submit, the

most crucial is the Marketing Plan that is made in groups. The challenge here is that we are

instructed to group strictly on the same mode of leaning which means that online students will

only have online members and same goes with correspondence students. It is quite frustrating for

those on the offline MOL because they can’t attend classes so most of them have no idea what to

do. All 44 of us have been together for almost 3 years, it may not be very obvious but we do care

about the well-being of one another. With that being said, we reached for those correspondence

students who can at least have access online even for a short amount of time and explain to them
all that we have to do to pass the course. They then disseminated the information to their

groupmates and is now in the process of working on the papers too.

PROFESSOR’S REMARKS

It was on the first Thursday of January of this year when our product management professor

met us online and gave us instructions. The class started at 10:30 am and ended at 10:45 am. Like

what I have stated above, she was not feeling well on that day that is why the google meeting was

very short and ended hastily. Obviously, 15 minutes was not enough for us to get all the

information we need for doing the required paper to submit. Our professor is good with delivering

lessons but not quite remarkable when it comes to giving directions.