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Online Teaching Resources

FROM EMAIL SENT Sept. 3:

As we work our way through this online environment, we experience the strengths and weaknesses of our online platforms. There have already been several ugly incidents of Zoombombing in classes just in this first week.  These are upsetting, frustrating, insulting, and infuriating for the faculty and the students.  If this has happened to you, I am so sorry.  I know that the measures designed to prevent this from happening make Zoom less user friendly, but it’s all I (and IITS) can offer at this moment to make these incidents stop. IITS has provided the following resources to assist you. 

  1. Learn more about how to use Zoom
  2. Enable security measures
  3. Be aware of pending Zoom system changes
  4. Limit the threat by utilizing authenticated users (helps ID the perpetrators) and waiting rooms in addition to session passwords

FROM EMAIL SENT AUG. 28:

IITS would like you to have the following information:  “Learn about IITS and our solutions for faculty, staff, and students on our IITSforYou website. If you have students that need technology, please direct them to the Student section. Visit the Academic Technology information section to learn how we support faculty with media, instructional design, geographic information systems, learning glass recordings, and more.

 Cougar Courses help

 Zoom Support 

iPads available next week - If you need an iPad for teaching, we are expecting 150 next week. Use the technology loan request form to make your request.

You can use OneNote for lessons that you share with your students and display using Zoom. Record to Zoom Cloud and post the link in your course for students to review before and/or after class.

HelpDesk technical support is available via phone, email, and Microsoft Teams from 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday.”

Sexual Violence Advocacy & Education flyer

FROM EMAIL SENT AUG. 17:

In preparation for the upcoming General Election, President Neufeldt appointed an Election and Free Speech task force (composed of faculty, staff and students) to gather resources and develop strategies for encouraging our students to take their civic responsibility seriously.  One of these strategies is encouraging faculty to discuss the election in their courses this semester.  To support your efforts, the task force has developed a website with many resources:  Election 2020.  In the coming weeks, you will also see a Free Speech website launching with resources and guidance on Free Speech.  Please consider incorporating information about the election in your course - dropping info into Cougar Courses or leading class discussions - by using some of the resources on this page: AC Resources.  If you have resources you would like to contribute, please send to Rochelle Smarr at rsmarr@csusm.edu.  As additional resources become available, they will be posted on the Election 2020 website.

FROM EMAIL SENT AUG. 12:

From Email sent Aug. 7:

CSU ITL Webcast Series on Alternative Approaches to Assessment in QR Courses
Every Tuesday, 1:00 – 1:30 pm

As we prepare to teach in a remote environment this fall, we have been asked to think carefully and creatively about how we assess our students and give due consideration to equity and privacy issues.  High-stakes, proctored examinations may not be the optimal technique for measuring mastery of course objectives.  This interactive webcast series will consider alternative approaches to formative and summative assessment using tools and techniques that will engage students and allow them to demonstrate their understanding of the course content. 

Series to include:

  • An Introduction to Mastery Grading in a Remote Instruction Environment, Sharona Krinsky CSULA
  • Reflections on Zoom-proctored vs. Non-proctored Exams Across a Multi-section College Algebra Course, Topaz Haley Wiscons CSU Sacramento
  • Assessing the Assessments: Lessons Learned and Tools Used to Improve Exams in Engineering Courses, Will Tsai, CSU Maritime
  • Press <START> to Continue: How to Turn your Classroom into a Video Game, Tumay Tunur, CSU San Marcos

TO JOIN THE WEBCAST
A Zoom Link will be sent the week before the first webcast.
The webcast will be recorded and archived in the professional development calendar archive.
Materials will be collected and archived on the web (location TBA)

QUESTIONS?

For more information about the webcast series, please contact Dr. Emily Magruder, Director, CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning, at (562) 951-4752, emagruder@calstate.edu, or Dr. Claudia Pinter-Lucke, Consultant to the CSU Chancellor’s Office, cpinterlucke@calstate.edu

Faculty Center - The primary mission of the Faculty Center is to support faculty in their multiple roles as teachers, scholars, artists, intellectuals, and members of the university and wider community. 

Research Reactivation Guidance - Guidance and resources for the CSU San Marcos research community about how to reactivate and/or Ramp-Up onsite activity during COVID-19 phasing from the research health and safety perspective.

Article: Six Steps for Improving Zoom Teaching, if you’re still looking for some Zoom help.

Article: How to Reconnect With Students and Strengthen Your Remote Course

2020 Census - You are encouraged to upload this informative video to your Cougar Courses.  

FROM EMAIL SENT July 24:

  • If you are looking to restart research on campus with undergraduates or wanting to restart creative activities on campus, this document from OGSR is very important for you. Unfortunately, they are not quite ready to approve either of those categories, but it is coming soon. If you believe undergraduates are essential for the work, follow the link in the document to complete a reactivation request. Right now, allowing undergraduates on campus is extremely limited. I know this is tough, but thanks as always for your patience and understanding.       
  • There is a book available through the library that might help with your online preparation: Cynthia Sistek-Chandler, ed., Exploring Online Learning Through Synchronous and Asynchronous Instructional Methods.  You can go through the library catalog to get it.
  • If you’re still looking for some Zoom help, this short article might help: Yes, Your Zoom Teaching Can Be First-Rate.