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Faculty: Teaching Remotely
Helping your students succeed at a distance.
Beloit faculty are taking action to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by moving to teach at a distance for the spring semester. We’re committed to offering our students a great Beloit education, that includes class instruction, mentoring, and advising, even when we are not in the same physical spaces.
The resources in this web group can help you transition your course(s) to this new physically-distant environment. Campus resources that you can use to help your students succeed. including academic tutoring, LEADS, the Writing Center and the Library, are also available.
Getting Started
- Determine how your course will operate as a remote course. Keep your focus on the goals of the course and the learning outcomes for students. It is likely that more than simply how you communicate with your students will need to change.
- Communicate with your students as soon as possible. Tell them how the course will continue moving forward. Listen for anything that you may need to adjust to account to students’ limitations and needs.
- Remain flexible and creative. No single solution is going to work for every course. And no single solution may work best for every instructional activity in a course.
- Please have patience for your students; needing to learning remotely is likely as new for them as teaching remotely is for you.
Updated Resources
There are many resources that are freely accessible, openly licensed, and available for use in courses. These resources include textbooks, websites, quizzes, activities, simulations, etc.
Most of the library’s subscription resources are restricted to users currently affiliated with Beloit college by publisher and vendor license agreements. This means that on-campus students, faculty, and staff are granted access to these resources via IP address verification.
Students and faculty must login into a proxy server called EZproxy in order to access library resources off campus.
Library & Information Technology Services now has an enterprise license for Zoom. A license can be assigned to anyone who needs to use this video platform.
While Zoom also has a free version, the licensed copy lets you have a longer video session (free is capped at 45-minutes) and allows you to record the session. You can use Zoom from any device.
Recording a Meeting
Zoom Cloud recording of video conferences has been disabled for our organization due to limitations in available space on Zoom’s cloud servers. In order to record and share a conference, use the following steps:
Use Zoom’s local recording feature to record and save a conference locally to your computer.
Upload the recorded video to your Google Drive. All Beloit College faculty, staff, and students have unlimited storage space on their college Drive account.
Share a link to your uploaded video on Moodle, via email, or through other methods.
Instructors can create access for students in the class to watch or re-watch past recorded class sessions without violation of student privacy laws or the educational records prohibitions of FERPA, as long as those recordings are not available to any other audience.
Resources
- LITS documentation for Zoom
- Video Conferencing using Zoom Workshop – LITS
- Zoom: Teach Online Class Sessions – University of Minnesota
- Zoom Best Practices and Tips – Western Illinois University
- Student Tips for Participating in Online Learning – Zoom
Need assistance?
LITS can provide assistance and support. Please submit a School Dude ticket if you need help.
Moodle has capabilities to distribute documents and receive assignments, structure online discussions, give quizzes and much more.
Resources
The college has unlimited use of Google Hangouts/Meet. Find this by locating the 9-dot grid on the upper right section of your Gmail window. Click on the grid and you’ll see Meet, Google’s video conferencing solution.
Meet can be used with up to 250 participants per call, and can do live-streaming to 100,000 viewers within a domain (our domain is beloit.edu), and you can record and save these video calls to Google Drive. You can create a Google Shared Drive for each class and use it to store recorded sessions and other materials that students need to use for coursework.
Instructors can create access for students in the class to watch or re-watch past recorded class sessions without violation of student privacy laws or the educational records prohibitions of FERPA, as long as those recordings are not available to any other audience.
Resources
Need assistance?
LITS can provide assistance and support. Please submit a School Dude ticket if you need help.