Mays Imad, Ph.D., Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Center at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona, will be leading a webinar on Friday, April 3 from noon to 1:00 PM (PST). In times of uncertainty we look to our leaders–at home, at school, and at work. Even when we know they don’t necessarily have solutions,
The Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University has compiled some great tips on increasing inclusion, equity, and access while teaching remotely. They offer tips on the following topics: Addressing unequal access to technology, hardware, and software Providing a balance between asynchronous and synchronous tools and course materials Creating an environment that includes and values
Zoom continues to provide video training to help new users get familiar with their platform: They offer several Zoom Education Webinar sessions each week with a live host to answer your questions, and focus on the following topics: How to download Zoom applications and join a Zoom meeting How to schedule a meeting and send out
It might be Spring Break, but your colleagues at Educational Technology Services are busy providing support daily! Please reach out to us for assistance. Daily Drop-in Support from 9am to 5pm Phone support: Call us at (714) 997-6600 and choose option 1 for the “Teaching Remotely” Team Email us at edutech@chapman.edu Join us via Zoom
You may have noticed a slight change to BigBlueButton within Canvas Conferences. As of March 20, 2020 we are now on the “Premium” version of BigBlueButton. What does this mean? Better Performance With BBB Premium we now have more storage more students can watch recordings at the same time more classes can be held at
I recently attended a webinar put together by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) on how to keep students engaged when transitioning to online. Keeping students engaged with your course is different in an online environment. For example: how often should your students be visiting your course site and engaging with your content? how is attendance
The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) has developed an Online Teaching Toolkit with free online teaching resources to benefit both faculty and students. These resources are divided into six key topic areas for teaching remotely: Welcoming students to the online environment Managing your online presence Organizing your online course Planning and facilitating quality
Dear Colleagues, Aiding faculty in moving to online course delivery has been an exciting task. I am so impressed with the creativity and earnestness that I’ve seen as instructors are quickly adapting to new ways of teaching and interacting with their students. One concern that I wanted to share with you, that was recently raised
Video conferencing is new for students, too! Help your students learn to use whatever tool you decide to use in your synchronous online instruction. Zoom Instructions Dear Students, we will be using the Zoom platform in our class. You can find Zoom by going into your Canvas course at canvas.chapman.edu. In the left-hand menu click
On 3/11/2020 we recorded two training sessions on how to use BigBlueButton in Canvas for web conferencing with your students. Here are those two training sessions. They have similar content, but each is a little different so we wanted to provide both to you: Topic: Using BigBlueButton for Web Conferencing in Canvas 10:30 am Meeting