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Students: Learning Remotely
Ensuring you’re able to complete your courses.
At times, it becomes necessary for courses to take place remotely. This can be a challenge to adjust to, especially for those who only have experience with traditional, in-person courses.
These resources are here to help you prepare to continue to do the great work you’ve always done. Likewise, Beloit’s faculty and staff are always available to help and are completely committed to your your success.
Getting Started
- Monitor your Beloit email for communications from your professor(s) about how your course(s) will operate remotely. If you cannot access your Beloit email, contact your professor(s) as soon as possible from an alternative email address.
- If you lack regular access to technology or the internet, tell your professor(s) as soon as possible. Email Library & Information Technology Services at itsupport@beloit.edu for assistance.
- If you are unavailable at the regular time your course(s) meet, tell your professor(s) as soon as possible. This helps professor(s) know that they need to pursue options that do not require all to meet at the same time.
- Please have patience with your professor(s). Teaching remotely may be as new for them as learning remotely is for you.
Updated Resources
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.
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.
College librarians are available to help students with their projects and assignments via phone, email, and video chat.
Students may be based in many different time zones, so the best way to set up a research appointment. Librarians are able to accommodate appointments outside of our regular hours, when necessary.
Resources
- Ask a Librarian Chat and Knowledgebase
- Request a Research Appointment or Information Literacy Session
Staff Available to Help
Kelly Leahy
- Position: Student Success & Engagement Librarian
- Email: leahykm@beloit.edu
- Phone: 608-363-2724
Haley Lott
- Position: Student Success & Engagement Librarian
- Email: lotth@beloit.edu
- Phone: 608-363-2246
Learning Enrichment and Disability Services will be offering individual online tutoring! If you have had a tutor earlier this semester you will continue to work with them, unless you are told otherwise.
Unfortunately, Peer Academic Support Services (PASS) will no longer be available. If you have been attending PASS, please submit the Tutoring Request Form on the Portal.
- Go to the Portal and log in.
- Go to the Student Life section.
- Click Tutoring Forms in the left sidebar.
- Click Tutoring Request Form and complete.