Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Everyone is going to have a different set-up that they are teaching from. This post, with ideas from AJ Barse, is here to help you...
by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Have you ever popped into a breakout room to check on your students, only to find cameras off, everyone muted, apparently using the time for their own purposes, rather than engaging with each...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of the Redirect Tool, which can be used to add a unique item to the course navigation of your Canvas course that redirects students to a link that might be used often in your class (e.g., a...
This video from WWU’s Flexible Modality Toolkit provides a walkthrough of the audio input and output settings you need when teaching a class with both in-person and online students who may be connected via Teams or Zoom. See also: Classroom Details (Lookup Classroom...
This video from WWU’s Flexible Modality Toolkit provides a walkthrough of what you need to know before using the document camera in a class when you will have both in-person and online students who may be connected via Teams or Zoom. See also: Classroom Details...
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Chalk Talks are an easy way to engage students, soliciting specific responses or having them ask questions about any part of the...
Google Docs is a great tool to allow multiple students to work on the same shared document. Students can share their thoughts through text, photo collages, word clouds, and drawings in individual breakout rooms and come then come together as a class on a single...
Google Slides is a great tool for promoting students to work together in breakout rooms on a document that is easy to access after coming together as a complete class. For more information on this strategy see Utilizing Breakout Rooms and Online Tools for Student...
Learn how to Zoom meeting recordings from your Zoom account on the cloud to your WWU Panopto account. See also: Moving Zoom Recordings to Canvas Automatically Via Panopto. Explore more videos from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library and Flexible Modality Toolkit.
OneNote is a great tool for encouraging students to work together in breakout rooms on a single document that is easy to access after coming together as a class. For more information on this strategy see Utilizing Breakout Rooms and Online Tools for Student...
This video from WWU's Manager of ATUS Video Services, Robert B. Clark, gives you a guided tour in setting up a Vixia camera when there is a need for more camera capabilities for a video conference session. Setting Up an External Vixia Camera to Use as a Webcam from...
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Maybe you like to have music playing as students enter the class to get them started for the day. Maybe the music you are playing...
At Western, class recordings fall in the category of course content that should be saved in a secure location for three months after final grade for the course is recorded and any academic grievances have been resolved. See: WWU Retention Schedule for Teaching &...
Socrative Pro is a student response system that can help instructors to poll their students anonymously, gauge student learning through quizzes, and complement their discussions with interactive approaches, all of which are helpful to increase student...
Reconstructing a successful class that was meant to be in-person to fit the new online format can be challenging and intimidating. Someone who has tackled this task and found great success, according to his students, is Dr. Charles Patterson, Professor of Spanish at...
WesternOnline is a resource created by WWU’s Outreach and Continuing Education to help build online courses effectively. Learn more about strategies and methods for teaching synchronous classes. Explore:...
This recording of Wonderful Warmups by Kerry Allen & Lee Posthumus was part of the 2021 WWU Summer Workshop Series. Session description: Going remote was heavy lifting for many of us and it goes without saying that there were challenges for teachers and learners....
Zoom is a videoconferencing tool available in the Pro version to all Western faculty, staff, and students. Check out Zoom: A Playlist of WWU Zoom Videos to see a collection of videos created by instructional designer, Kevin Dixey, and other ATUS staff. These videos...
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Similar to a chalkboard or whiteboard that you might use in a physical classroom, Zoom also has an annotate feature you can use in...
Learn how to archive Zoom meeting recordings that have been stored to your local computer. This can be done by moving them to GoogleDrive or OneDrive. See also: Moving Zoom Videos to Panopto and Archiving Local Recordings to Microsoft Stream. Explore more videos from...
Learn how to save and delete recordings from your Zoom account on the cloud in order to save space and better manage your media. See also: Zoom: Managing Zoom Recordings. Explore more videos from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library and Flexible Modality Toolkit.
As part of cleaning up your video recordings on the cloud, you may decide to delete videos by putting them in the Zoom "trash" and you may also want to retrieve items from the trash prior to permanent deletion (30 days). Explore more videos from WWU's Instructional...
Learn how to clean up your video "data" that is no longer needed or that can be archived off of the cloud storage on your Zoom account. For another way to automatically move recordings from Zoom to Panopto, see: Moving Zoom Recordings to Canvas Automatically Via...
Learn about the option to record Zoom meetings with the file stored to your local computer rather than to your Zoom account on the cloud. See also: Zoom: Setting up and Sharing a Cloud Recording. Explore more videos from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library and...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview
Your academic Zoom Cloud recordings can now be automatically migrated to your account in Panopto. Once recordings are stored in Panopto, they can be shared, edited, and much more. In addition, you can easily connect to your Panopto recordings in Canvas. For instance,...
Learn how to set up a recurring Zoom meeting with the "no fixed time" option so that the meeting can be used at any time. This is especially useful for classes and online office hours. Explore more videos from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library and Flexible...