While the world is at a loss when dealing with the deadly Covid-19, we all know for a fact that students are secretly rejoicing at all the additional school holidays that they're getting.

In Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, schools have been closed for weeks, but teachers later introduced a study app called DingTalk to conduct online lessons and assign homework.

The cheeky students, however, found an innovative way to avoid lessons and homework!

According to a report in Malay Mail, the "innovative" students started giving one-star ratings for the app.

This is hilarious ?In locked down Wuhan, teachers used an app DingTalk to set homework. Kids realized if the app got enough 1-star reviews it would be removed from App Store. Reviews flooded in & DingTalk’s rating fell from 4.9 to 1.4 overnight. #CoronavirusOutbreak #Corona pic.twitter.com/amFelkJR63

— Danyal Gilani (@DanyalGilani) March 16, 2020

"Somehow the little brats worked out that if enough users gave the app a one-star review, it would get booted off the App Store. Tens of thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk's rating plummeted overnight from 4.9 to 1.4. Their rating is currently 2.6."

"The app has had to beg for mercy on social media: 'I'm only five years old myself, please don't kill me," posted the app developers.

App developers try wooing kids with video

Later, DingTalk came up with a funny video to respond to the kids' protest.

thanks?.And a more interest thing is that DingTalk published a video on Bilibili(China's YouTube maybe？) after students did https://t.co/RLNVzjv9Jy's a rap song,mainly talking about please don't give me one star?it got 20 million views now→https://t.co/PCsT9KTvyP

— recordingmylife (@H0ShR3sukflc6iY) March 11, 2020

According to translations from TechNode, the clip shows several cartoons singing woeful lyrics, such as "I know guys, you were not expecting such a productive holiday" and "Please don't give me any more one-star ratings. I was chosen for this job and there is not much I can do about it."