The following information and updates pertain to the Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) Online Learning Plan for faculty. In the event the class are unable to meet in-person, the College has a number of resources available to facilitate a transition to online instruction. The recommendations below are consistent with other institutions and form the essential plan of moving to online learning in a contingency situation.
For implementation, questions, both technical and pedagogical, please contact:
Josh Moon
Educational Technology Specialist
josh.moon@kzoo.edu
269.337.7415
Updates
Portable Voice Amplifiers
In partnership with the Academic Planning Task Force, Information Services has procured a number of portable voice amplifiers for use in the classrooms. Here’s a video that demonstrates the unit. We will check these units out to individual faculty that request them; if you’d like one, please send an email to Media Services as soon…
Student Laptop Lending Program – Spring 2021
We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications from students to borrow a laptop for spring term 2021. Applications must be received by February 26, 2021.
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Microsoft Teams Now Supports Up to Nine Cameras
We’re pleased to share that Microsoft has successfully implemented a 3×3 camera view in Teams and this is now available at Kalamazoo College! The ability to view nine participants simultaneously should be activated by default for all Calls participants. Seeing additional participants has been a popular request, and we hope this will encourage more users…
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Safeguarding PII While Working From Home
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is information that, when used alone or with other relevant data, can identify an individual. Many employees work with PII about students, staff or alumni. Find a more detailed definition of PII and Kalamazoo College’s policy for protecting it on the IS Policies page. Follow the steps in our earlier post…
Update to Faculty
A message from our CIO, Greg Diment: The Information Services Team has worked to produce extensive content to support online learning and collaboration during Spring Quarter…
Moving from Zoom to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is our institutionally supported videoconferencing application and offers many collaboration features. Due to its integration into the College’s technology infrastructure and the requirement of login credentials, it is more secure than other clients that are increasingly targets of disruption and attacks…
Special Software Availability for Distance Learning
Many software companies are providing students free access to software this term
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Forums and Other Options: Student Writing in Moodle
One of Moodle’s strengths is the ability to collect student writing online. There are a multiple Moodle Activities designed to accomplish this, and this post is going to discuss the key features and settings of three: Forum, OU Blog, and Assignment…
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Tips for Working Securely from Home
One of our goals is to enable faculty and staff to work as securely as possible from home. Our partner in security awareness training, SANS, offers these five steps.
How Do I Deliver Video to My Students?
There are many ways to take video content and deliver it to students online. We’re going to talk about recommended solutions for spring quarter…
Start Guide to Help you Work Remotely
Take a look at our list of resources to help you work from home! Know that our ultimate goal is to support you with your technical needs throughout this difficult time. We appreciate all of your patience as we continue to handle requests.
“Introduction to Contingency Teaching Online” course for Faculty
A message from Josh Moon: Dear Colleagues, the wealth of links, tips, and best practices available for online teaching has been valuable. However, something many of us are missing are models and experience. I am happy to offer an online Moodle course titled Introduction to Contingency Teaching Online…
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How to Organize a Week of Online Learning in Moodle
As the College prepares to transition to online teaching, we’ll rely on some resources the College already possesses. One of our core tools is our Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle. It is familiar to students and to many faculty, making it a great place to start. The purpose of this post is to illustrate what a…
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COVID-19 Online Learning Plan
In the event that classes are unable to meet in-person, the College has a number of resources available to facilitate a transition to online instruction. The recommendations below are consistent with other institutions and form the essential plan of moving to online learning in a contingency situation. For implementation, questions, both technical and pedagogical, please contact:Josh…