WHEELING — Wheeling Park High School students are learning remotely this week, and today and Friday their classes will be live-streamed so they can interact with teachers.

Students will be sent links to log in and join their class for live instruction. WPHS will be following its two-hour delay class schedule plan, with first period starting at 9:15 a.m.

Ohio County Schools is classified as orange this week on the West Virginia Department of Education’s COVID-19 reporting map. This means all instruction must be remote through the week, while students are provided with online lessons and education.

Typically, there isn’t much one-on-one interaction between students and teachers when remote learning takes place.

Ohio County Schools refers to having all students learning from home as “Level 3.” The district’s Level 3 plan requires at least one live online engagement opportunity for students and teachers during the week, according to WPHS Principal Meredith Dailer.

Some teachers previously tried live-streaming of their classes, but this will be the first time all eight periods of classes will be live-streamed for an entire day, she said.

“There are a lot of moving parts to going live,” Dailer said. “We hope students will take the opportunity to log on and receive instruction from their teachers. We think the best thing for our kids is our teachers, and we are trying to make that happen the best that we can for the full remote week we are in right now.”

The classes also will be recorded and later uploaded to the school’s online instructional platform. This will permit those students who do not have the technology to later view their class if necessary.

“Technology is wonderful when it works,” Dailer said. “The county itself has done a wonderful job of providing ‘hot spots’ to families in need. That is why we felt it was important to offer this to students not just on a schedule, but also to record and upload them so students have access later should they not be home, or have to go elsewhere to get internet.”

Teachers also are continuing to hone their skills when it comes to online education, according to Dailer.

“It is challenging to continue to build and create for our kids, but we continue to get better at it everyday,” she said. “While in full virtual, we really felt we needed to make the effort to connect with our students, and we are hoping it is acceptable.”