Remote Instruction Best Practices
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Online Learning Resource Guide for Faculty
This guide is intended to provide faculty with materials to transition their courses to online instruction. It offers resources on how to think about online instruction as a method, key tools to help as you begin this process, and contact information for Research, Instruction, Technology staff who can help. This guide is inspired by the Covid-19 Resources for Alternative Modes of Learning by Smith College. Table of Contents General Resources for Online Teaching Revise E-Communication Policy Moodle Site Set-Up Organizing Class Discussions Office Hours Assignments (Posting and Collecting) Exams/Quizzes Labs Student Feedback Remote Access to Software Accessibility Resources to Address Student Concerns COVID-19 Resources Wellness Resources General Resources for Online…
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Narrated PowerPoint
A good PowerPoint slide deck doesn’t stand on its own. The slides aren’t your presentation, you are giving the presentation, the slides are just visual aids. So how do you share a PowerPoint presentation without losing sight of that? Simple! Just add your own voice by recording the slide show. While not fancy creating a narrated PowerPoint is a powerful way to share your content when you can’t do it in person. You can save the final product as a video file or as a standard PowerPoint so when viewers play the slide show they will hear your audio and the slides will advance based on the timings you have…
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Some Resources on Course Packs & Copyright
On June 27 at noon, Information Services had an initial conversation about course packs. Here are some resources that were mentioned during that conversation: Stanford’s Copyright & Fair Use site, in particular the page on academic coursepacks SensusAccess (file converter for accessibility): http://commons.trincoll.edu/trinedtech/sensusaccess/ Hypothes.is (web annotation tool): https://web.hypothes.is (You can see hypothes.is in action in our summer reading group) Photo of some course packs lying around Jason’s office by . . . well, by Jason.
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ToW: Make Everything More Accessible with SensusAccess
Keeping up with reading is a critical part of college success, and so making sure course materials are available in a variety of accessible formats is important. For example, some faculty and students with low vision use screen readers to navigate the web and read documents. Others need documents in Braille. Anyone can require accommodations at different points–for example, students with concussion often can’t look at a screen, but need to be able to keep up with coursework. To respond to this need, Trinity has subscribed to a software service called SensusAccess, which converts files from less accessible formats into more accessible ones. To take only the handiest example: SensusAccess…