I recently learned about two important Zoom features. 1) Move Co-Host Between Breakouts You may have colleague (e.g. teaching assistant, graduate student instructor, etc.) assist you during live session. In particular, you may want to assign them to move between breakout rooms to help students if they get stuck on Read more…
Compiled by the School of Information faculty. Introduction You are not in this alone The School of Information has offered flipped-classroom, online learning since 2014. We have learned a lot along the way. In this blog you can find pointers about embedding videos into bCourses, how to greet a class Read more…
BCourses has a 2GB storage limit. Furthermore, it takes a long time to upload videos directly to bCourses. The following instructions will help you embed videos in a bCourses module. This how-to is for videos that are hosted on Google Drive. Broader bCourse instructions can be found here. Allow Public Access Read more…
We are all stressed. Many institutions across the US announced this week that they’re going to be moving their classes online. This change came suddenly, which means that for most instructors and students, there was not enough time to train or prepare for online teaching. As we begin to teach Read more…
The I School has two online masters degrees: our MIDS program trains data scientists to manage and analyze the coming onslaught of big data, in a unique high-touch online degree; and, our MICS program prepares cybersecurity leaders with the technical skills and contextual knowledge necessary to develop solutions for complex Read more…
Today I taught my first online class due to COVID-19. This was an 11 person discussion based class and one student presented. Class went very well and the discussion was smooth. For each discussion question I called on three students and asked one of them to be the first to Read more…
This is an opinionated collection of thoughts gathered and collected through 5 years of teaching online classes in several online platforms. These thoughts are built around a 15-person classroom, which is where we have the most experience. However, any of the limitations that are present in a 15 person classroom Read more…
Class meetings that are conducted online provides students the opportunity to have a robust online learning experience. Not only are these meetings robust to whatever challenges the campus might be facing at the time (political unrest, wildfires, viral outbreaks), but more importantly, meeting online can be especially effective at creating Read more…
Here is a list of other great resources we have found online: A Brief Guide to Synchronous Remote Course Tools, Michael Ball, UC Berkeley EECS, March 2020