Keep Teaching

Each semester, as part of your normal operations, you should post your syllabus in Moodle, make the site available to your students, and tell your students to check their UNO email regularly and especially in the case of a disruption to campus attendance. When such an event does occur, follow up with that communication:

Contact them through email early, and explain to them what to expect. Email when necessary and don’t overload them. You can direct them to a discussion forum for ongoing class announcements, and in Moodle, the Announcements Forum will email students a copy of everything you post there.

Let them know how to contact you (through campus email? Via an open topic discussion forum in Moodle?) and what they expect from you in terms of response time.

Consider adding an open topic discussion forum to your course, where students can post questions. You’ll likely get repeats of the same questions from multiple students and this will help you manage the load. If you receive many questions through email, you can sum them up there and post your answers.

• Use the Course Announcements Forum
• Create a Discussion Forum

Before you start creating and organizing your online content and schedule for the rest of the semester, review your syllabus and manage your expectations for what you want to accomplish during the time you deliver your course online. You might need to adjust the timeline you originally set out for some work, but if you keep your course outcomes in mind, you should be fine. Remember that you’ll be doing additional work in getting content into Moodle, and that writing and reading take longer than engaging in real time in the classroom, so allow yourself and your students some flexibility with amounts of content and activities, and with deadlines.

Internet access is not universal so minimize multimedia content. Documents take up much less bandwidth than videos and podcasts.

Keep it simple – you are not developing an online course in accordance with common standards and guidelines. That take months of design, content creation and revision, and evaluation.

• Upload Documents to Moodle

If you want to post and collect assignments, you can post the assignment information as a document in Moodle, and collect submissions via email. However, we recommend getting acquainted with the Assignment activity in Moodle so that you collect, grade and return assignments in Moodle. If you need help, feel free to email the CTI. 

Do what you’re comfortable with, and don’t worry if you aren't familiar with advanced techniques and tools in Moodle. Use your gradebook online if you’re comfortable doing so, but it’s fine also to keep your gradebook on paper, just as you’ve done in the past.

UNO supports the following teaching tools. Click on the links below to find out more about each of them. In addition, we suggest going through our two self-paced Moodle Basics courses, which will give you the foundation for teaching on Moodle. Our Moodle Basics course are Moodle Basics and Advanced Usage of Moodle.

• Moodle (upload documents, email class, structure your course)
• Panopto (record, upload, and share videos)
• Zoom (hold and record "live" sessions)

These UNO faculty are among those with experience in online teaching, and use of online technologies, and have offered to field questions and offer support to colleagues. 

College of Business
Kane Bourque (kbourque@uno.edu)

College of Liberal Arts and Education
Olivier Bourderionnet (obourde1@uno.edu) 
Katie Franklin (kchosa@uno.edu) 
Liz Hogan (emhogan1@uno.edu) 
Kate Reynolds (kreynold@uno.edu)
Dan Shahar (dcshahar@uno.edu)

College of Engineering
Satish Bastola (sbastola@uno.edu) 
Gianna Cothren (gcothren@uno.edu) 
Ghose Hajra (mghoseha@uno.edu)

Library
Brandon Adler (bwadler@uno.edu) 
Lora Amsberryaugier (lamsberr@uno.edu) 
Jeanne Pavy (jpavy@uno.edu)

Moodle Help 

• Moodle Help page
• Setting Up Your Course (Video Playlist)
• Creating Quizzes Playlist (Video Playlist)

Panopto Help

• More information about Panopto
• Getting Started
• Adding Panopto Videos to Moodle
• Automatic Captions for Panopto

Panopto Training Video Playlist

Zoom Help

• UNO Zoom Quick Start Guide
• Hosting a Meeting 
• Managing Participants
• Sharing Your Screen
• Zoom 101 : In Meeting Controls (Basic)
• Tips and Tricks for Teachers Educating on Zoom

Accessibility Resources

• Disability Services
• Automatic Captions for Panopto
• CTI's Accessibilty website
• Universal Design for Learning