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Abstract
From the last few years, the Internet has grown from being nearly non-existent into the largest, most accessible database of information ever created. Growing internet facilities helped us a lot in changing the traditional teaching methods in classroom making and education more accessible. COVID 19 worldwide is leading to a tremendous transition in the education system. The current pandemic brought a prodigious paradigm shift from the traditional method of teaching to modern or technological teaching. Teachers are now taking a complete virtual class where they try to input more creative use of audiovisual aids to make the class more interesting and trying to provide better conceptual learning using videos. The interaction would be a greater task in a specified time for teachers in online classes. Teachers were also not into so much technology or tech-savvy in today’s era as they were feeling good to go with either only traditional methods or a combination of the traditional and smart classroom but COVID 19 made them learn technology better. Teacher’s tech friendliness is of utmost importance to create successful online teaching. I, over here, assessed some basic asked from 50 teachers regarding the usage of the online platform for teaching, their tech friendliness, and whether they think this online class is productive or not. This questionnaire was prepared when online education had just started during this pandemic and every teacher was on the initial stage of flight into digital teaching and learning. The results show mixed responses of the teachers regarding the usage of the digital environment. Keywords: COVID-19, Lockdown, Online education, Educational platforms, teaching aids, Productivity.