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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
The following tools and resources are available to all faculty, staff, and students to use while on site or remotely, from personal and/or college owned equipment.
Distance Learning Tools & Resources
Categories
- Learning Management Systems
- Creative Applications
- Accessing Library Resources from Off-site
- Office and Productivity
- Communication and Collaboration
- Organization
- File Storage & Sharing
- Math and Statistics
If you are using your personal or college-owned laptop or other network equipment off campus, whether at a public hotspot or through your own ISP at home, this guide can help you troubleshoot speed and connectivity issues.
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.
Campus Phones
Please do not remove your phone from your office. If you need to use the phone in a different room, you can hot desk (sign-in) to that phone.
If you need a phone installed at a new location, please submit a SchoolDude ticket and we will assist with moving or installing new equipment properly.
Voicemail
If you are assigned an extension that has voicemail, you should be receiving voicemail messages to your college email address.
If you are not, please check your spam folder first. If still not, please submit a ticket and we will fix the issue. Alternatively, you can check your voicemail from off-campus with the following steps:
- Dial the main campus number, 608-363-2500.
- When the attendant answers, press * twice.
- Enter your mailbox (extension) number.
- Press *.
- Enter your mailbox PIN.