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Hybrid Teaching Outdoors

If you’re planning to hold a class outside, keep in mind that the outdoor setting presents unique and often unanticipated technological challenges. After reserving your outdoor space, perform a wifi and setup check. Contact your AIA to help with planning and troubleshooting. They can consult with you remotely, and/or meet you in your outdoor classroom in advance of your first...

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Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

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....

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based

Using Groups in Perusall

Overview In Perusall, you can organize students into groups that limit whose comments they see. This can be useful when you have a large class and want to reduce the volume of annotations any single student is seeing, or if you want to create smaller cohorts where students might assume certain roles (skeptic, synthesizer, etc.) as readers and responders. You...

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Engineering Student Collaboration and Group Work

Knox College colleague Eric Dickens, in collaboration with his colleague Cate Denial, also from Knox, facilitated a session focused on student collaboration and group work. Watch the ACM workshop and use the additional resources to learn how to encourage remote student engagement and collaboration.

Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

RefWorks

RefWorks allows you to both manage citations in a personal-to-you database and annotate PDFs asynchronously.

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based/Practice-based

Hypothes.is

Hypothes.is a free annotation tool in which you can create groups and privately share annotations, on a PDF, or even a webpage.

Annotation/Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Discussion-based/Flipped Classroom/Practice-based

Slack

You can use Slack to create a communal workspace where users can chat or share documents and links.

Asynchronous/Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work/Synchronous

Google Slides Presentations with Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere allows users to embed interactive components into a Google Slides presentation. Use this how-to to learn how to create a Google Slides presentation with an embedded Poll Everywhere component!

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Hosting Zoom Meetings

This guide contains information on the different roles of Zoom hosts and how they can manage the participants and chat during a Zoom meeting.

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Zoom Meeting Polling

Zoom Polls allow the host to ask questions during Zoom meetings and review and share the results after the meeting. Use this how-to to learn how to create Zoom Polls!

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