Keep Teaching

Each semester, as part of your normal operations, you should post your syllabus in Canvas, 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 Canvas, Course Announcements 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 Canvas?) 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 Course Announcements
• Create a Discussion

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 Canvas, 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 Canvas
• Publish a Canvas Module

If you want to post and collect assignments, get acquainted with Canvas Assignments so that you collect, grade and return assignments in Canvas. 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 Canvas. 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. 

• Canvas (upload documents, email class, structure your course)
• Panopto (record, upload, and share videos)
• Microsoft Teams Meetings (hold and record "live" sessions)
• Respondus (proctor online exams)

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
 

College of Liberal Arts and Education
Olivier Bourderionnet (obourde1@uno.edu) 
Katie Franklin (kchosa@uno.edu) 
Liz Hogan (emhogan1@uno.edu) 

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

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

Whether students are experiencing trauma, an emotional reaction, or a material need, UNO has resources to help them. If you notice a student who is in need, click on the Beacon tile in MyApps and click the New Incident button.

Canvas Help 

• Canvas Help page
• UNO's Canvas QuickStart Guide
• UNO's Canvas Video Training Playlist

Panopto Help

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

Panopto Training Video Playlist

Teams Meetings Help

• UNO's Guide to Creating a Class Meeting
  Note: There are many ways to create a meeting. This guide details best practices.
• Overview of Basic Meeting Features
• Recording a Meeting
• Managing Participants
• Sharing Your Screen
• Using Breakout Rooms
• Adding Live Captioning
• Downloading a Meeting Recording
  Note: Please note: Teams meeting recordings will not automatically transfer to Panopto. For now, you can manually download the recording from Teams and upload it to Panopto. Integration is in progress.

If you have questions about how to download or use Microsoft Teams, please contact Information Technology at (504) 280- HELP (4357) or
helpdesk@uno.edu.

Accessibility Resources

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