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Scheduling Office Hours with Google Calendar Appointments

You can use to Google Calendar’s Appointment slots feature to make scheduling your office hours easier: students can schedule themselves for an available appointment, and you’ll get an automatic email telling you your time has been booked. With Zoom’s recurring meeting feature, you can also use the same setup to manage your virtual office hours. Creating Your Virtual Office If...

Tracking Charge on Apple Pencil

Categories Annotation / Uncategorized / Whiteboard

The Apple Pencil does not have a way to tell you when the battery is running low on its own. However, you can use your iPad to keep track of the battery life in a few easy steps. Log into your iPad Swipe right on the home screen Select Edit on the bottom of the Widget Screen Find Batteries listed...

Communicating with Students

Categories Asynchronous / Getting Started

Mailing Lists Class mailing lists Class mailing lists are automatically created and have all registered members of the course. The list email is generated by combining the semester, department code, course number, and section number; for example FA21-DEPT-103-01@groups.macalester.edu for a Fall 21. The Spring code is SP22 etc. Sending to the email that is created for your course will automatically...

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

Categories Annotation / Asynchronous / Discussion-based

If you’ve added readings and assignments to Perusall for past courses and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It can even preserve your assignment links on Moodle, given a little bit of elbow grease. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations....

Shooting Video with a Cellphone

Categories Asynchronous / Digital Projects / Flipped Classroom / Lecture / Presentations

General Tips and Tricks Tip that camera sideways! Make sure you’re recording landscape unless you specifically need to record in portrait. Clean your lens! Don’t use digital zoom – it can lead to pixelization Use airplane mode to help silence notifications Shoot with the back lens (even when you’re shooting yourself) rather than the selfie lens Turn on grid lines...

Podcasting

Categories Asynchronous / Digital Projects / Practice-based

I need to make a podcast… A podcast is a digitally recorded audio file that can be downloaded or streamed for listening. Podcast content is as varied as the hosts who produce them. They can be long or short, serious interviews or comedic parodies, groundbreaking research or fictional stories that last for 5 minutes or span several episodes. As class...

Attaching Webcam to Tripod

Categories Hybrid/Dual Delivery

Setting up the webcam The first time you use your webcam and tripod you will need attach the tripod baseplate to the bottom of the webcam. The webcam comes with a monitor mount attached. Remove the monitor mount (Pull hard!) Unclip the baseplate from the tripod by opening the quick release clamp on the top of the tripod Screw the...

Evaluation Kit

Categories Uncategorized

Policy Questions, please contact Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching Director Joan Ostrove Joan Ostrove | ostrove@macalester.edu Technical Questions, please contact Information Technology Services Gene Binfa | ebinfa@macalester.eduBrad Belbas | jbelbas@macalester.edu How-to Directions How do I get into the Evaluation Kit system to start doing things? How do I add my own “custom” questions to the survey? How do I...