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Online Teaching Resources

 

Given the circumstances of what’s been happening around the world within the last few weeks, it’s safe to assume that what follows on this page is subject to change. That said, this is one of the resources available to you as you begin preparing to teach your classes completely on line beginning March 30th.

 

Evaluate and Revise Your Syllabus

Update any instructions around participation, assignments/deadlines, and other topics.

Submit a Course Plan for Instructional Continuity for each class you teach. The university must have this document for accreditation and other compliance purposes.

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Virtual Teaching and Campus Disruptions

By now, we are all aware of the public health issues affecting our campus, our city, and beyond. As this crisis continues to evolve, we will continue working to support Nursing faculty and students alike. So, as you plan your own strategies for continuing instruction, please consider the following options and recommendations:

 

 

Develop a Plan

The School of Nursing, working with partners from all over campus, is working to provide you with all the information necessary to develop a plan specific to your courses and your needs to allow you to continue teaching in the event of campus closure or other disruptions: https://ctl.utexas.edu/keep-teaching. Or, contact me any time if you’d like some assistance developing your “virtual teaching strategy”.

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News & Events for February

There are always lots of cool, new, innovative things happening around campus and here in the School of Nursing. Here are just a few that I wanted to share with you and highlight. If you know of anything you’d like to add to future emails, please let me know!

 

Mid-course Surveys

Mid-semester is upon us (or will be soon!) and here’s a great, simple resource that can help you get feedback from your students to help make changes or improvements to your courses now, rather than at the end.

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Technology

File Sharing & Cloud Storage
Conferencing & Live Streaming (Zoom)
Online Testing
Online Discussions & Community
Classroom Response Systems
Video & Screencasting
Interactive Video
Slideshow Presentations

File Sharing & Cloud Storage

UT Box

UTBox is a campus-wide service that allows faculty, staff, and students at the University of Texas at Austin to use Box cloud-based file sharing for business and academic purposes. UTBox can be accessed from the UT Box home page.

Click here to learn more about UT Box.

 

Google Apps

Google Apps is another free file sharing app that allows faculty and staff to share and collaborate on file much like UT Box. In addition to storing and sharing any type of file, Google also allows you to create documents, slideshows, spreadsheets, forms, and more.

Click here to learn more about Google Apps.

Conferencing & Live Streaming

Zoom

Zoom is the most user-friendly of the web conferencing tools currently available at UT. One of the best things about Zoom is that ANYONE can use it, faculty, students, staff, guest speakers, you name it. If you don’t already have a Zoom account, click here to get started: https://zoom.its.utexas.edu/

Click here to learn more about Zoom.

Or, take a deeper dive into Zoom here.

 

Big Blue Button

Built right in to Canvas (under the Conferences tab), BigBlueButton is a virtual conferencing platform that allows you to schedule, and conduct virtual presentations, lectures, and conferences. It even has the ability to record sessions and save the recording for up to 2 weeks. Since it’s built in to your Canvas course, attendees of your virtual sessions must be enrolled in your course.

Click here to learn more about BigBlueButton.

Or, take a deeper dive into BigBlueButton here.

 

Adobe connect

Adobe Connect is the web conferencing tool supported and paid for by UT. Though it is a very powerful tool, it does have a substantial learning curve and can take some getting used to for many users. Only faculty and staff at UT can create meetings in Adobe Connect. Students do not have the ability to initiate virtual meetings with this tool.

Online Testing

 

Remote Proctoring

 

Online Discussions & Community

More info coming soon…

Classroom Response Systems

Note: now that UT has invested time and resources in UTInstapoll, please consider NOT using any of these paid options.

Video & Screencasting

YouTube

Click here to learn how to get started with Youtube.

Screencasts, which are videos of your computer screen and often used in tutorials, are a great way to illustrate a point or program.

Screencast-o-matic

Screencast-O-Matic is a free screen and webcam recorder to capture video from your computer screen and share it online or in class.

Get started with Screencasting here.

 

Camtasia

Camtasia is a video-based screen capturing software. Camtasia can also be customized to capture the entire screen, a specific window, or user-defined region. Screen capture videos can be recorded with or without voice narration. In addition to recording video and audio, Camtasia has powerful editing capabilities that allow you to just about anything you can think of, including adding interactive quiz questions to your videos.

Click here to get started with Camtasia.

 

Screenflow

ScreenFlow is a very polished screencasting application for MAC users, which records just about anything and gives you a huge amount of editing options afterwards.

Click here to get started with Screenflow.

 

Interactive Video

 

 

 

Slideshow Presentations

Want to take your PowerPoint slideshows to the next level? Learn how here.