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Teaching Resources
Take advantage of resources to help your students succeed wherever they are— physically or virtually.
Students and faculty together in a classroom, or on a field trip, or connected through space and time with technology, it is all about teaching and learning.
Online teaching can provide opportunities for students to work with faculty in a virtual environment to co-create a learning process that works for individuals and groups of students. Hybrid teaching and blended learning are similar concepts. Each combines in-person instruction with asynchronous or synchronous class sessions, access to content, and assignments that may take place in a virtual environment.
An excellent guide to resources for online and hybrid teaching can be found here.
Advising/Student Support
Campus resources that you can use to help your students succeed include academic tutoring, LEADS, the Writing Center, and the Library.
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.
Library, Technology and Other Resources
LITS has put together a list of resources and how-to-guides for a variety of technology and software that you can implement in your classroom. Examples include: Video Conferencing, Video Recording, Podcasting, and Photo Editing. Head to the Distance Learning Resources page for information.
DLR Visual PDF VersionAs of March 2021 captioning and auto-transcription is available in Zoom. To utilize this service you will need to have a Zoom Pro account AND activate the option in your Zoom Account. The video linked below walks you through the process of turning on this option.
Zoom Closed Captioning Tutorial
If you need a Zoom Pro account or have questions about this service, please contact LITS at support@beloit.edu
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
There are many resources available online to help you adapt your course.
GENERAL CONTINUITY
Keep Teaching – Indiana University
Remote Learning & Teaching – Bowdoin College
ONLINE DELIVERY
Accessible Teaching in the Time of COVID-19 – The Mapping Access; includes survey questions for students about their capabilities to access technology.
Coronavirus, Education Research, and Education - Links to a collection of AERA journal articles with research surrounding Engagement and Online Teaching.
Are your students prepared for a fully online course? Find out by asking them. – American Geophysical Union
Bringing Your Course Online – Humanities Commons
Building Community in Asynchronous Online Courses – Duke University
Going Online in A Hurry – Chronicle of Higher Education
Inclusive Approaches to Support Student Assignments During Times of Disruption - Brown University
Ten Tips for Quickly Converting Courses for Online Delivery – Higher Education Whisperer
SPECIFIC DISCIPLINES OR COURSES
Temporary Remote/Online Teaching and Learning Guide: Fieldwork, Group Work, and Lab Classes – James Madison University Libraries
Pandemic Prepping in the Language Class – The FLTMAG
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNALS
These are links to the library catalog, please make use of InterLibrary Loan if we do not have access to an article that you need.
There is no single correct approach to teaching a course online. You need to decide what will work best for your course. A helpful way to strategize online instruction is to think about student and instructor engagement as falling into one of two time-use categories: synchronous or asynchronous.
SYNCHRONOUS
Synchronous activities are where participants interact with each other in a live setting much like an in-class experience, or where participants engage in a simultaneous assessment (like a quiz, poll, or timed exam, or small-group discussions).
Tools for this approach include Zoom, Google Hangouts/Meet, and (for synchronous assessments) Moodle. If you plan to meet electronically with the whole class or a large subgroup, using your assigned course time (e.g., MWF 10-11:05 CST) will minimize time conflicts.
ASYNCHRONOUS
Asynchronous activities are where learning and assessment materials are readily available for students and instructors to engage with at a time of their choice.
It may include distributing content via recorded lecture, voice-overs on PowerPoints, or readings, but can also include discussion boards, assignments, and polls to promote class interaction. Moodle is a common tool. Zoom and various google applications can be used to make materials available asynchronously.
EVALUATING WHICH APPROACH TO USE
Synchronous activities may help reduce the instructor’s time spent monitoring student engagement online, and they may help maintain students’ senses of class community.
Asynchronous activities may be essential when students are in distant time zones, and the fallout of temporary technical problems is less severe than during synchronous events.
To access certain campus resources from off-site (such as the shared (M) drive, Jenzabar, Raiser’s Edge, etc.), you can connect to the college VPN.
LITS Documentation for Connecting to the College VPN
WHEN TO USE THE VPN
Use of the college VPN should be limited only to the situations in which it is required. While public VPN services exist to help address privacy concerns while browsing the web, the college VPN is not designed for this purpose and should be used exclusively for accessing campus resources that are not available from off-site.
DISCONNECTING THE VPN
It’s important to remember to disconnect the VPN when not using the above resources from off-campus.
While connected to the VPN, you may notice that network connectivity (including web browsing, file transfers, etc.) will be slower than normal, even while on a fast internet connection. The VPN client may also try to keep you connected to the VPN even after you have returned to campus or after you have restarted your computer or disconnected from the internet.
To prevent connection speed issues or other problems, be sure to disconnect from the VPN after using it.
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.