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Keep Teaching

Adjusting to online teaching and a changed schedule may feel daunting. Flexibility is key to making it work. Being flexible starts with setting manageable, realistic goals for yourself and your students. We've collected (and are constantly updating) tools, resources, and links to make it easier for you to keep teaching.

UNO’s recommends that faculty be flexible in excusing absences and allowing students to make up assignments, tests, exams and any other work disrupted by emergency campus closures. 

Check out our Six Starting Steps flyer for successfully teaching during an after and emergency campus closure.

 

News & Links

  • So You Want to Temporarily Teach Online
  • Harvard Business Review on the discomfort of grief
  • Flower Darby on recovering joy in teaching
  • Khalilah Brown-Dean on teaching through trauma

Teaching Tips and Best Practices

Our Learning Management System (LMS), Canvas, contains all the tools you need to communicate with your students, distribute course materials and readings, deliver lectures, foster engagement and discussions with and among students, collect assignments and assess student learning. This adaptation from the classroom to online during a period of disruption is not intended to be on the scale of an online course designed to be offered on a regular schedule, perhaps as part of an online program. The key is to prepare to communicate regularly and consistently with your students.

  • Communicate!

    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
  • Set Reasonable Goals

    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.

  • Deliver Content

    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
  • Assess Student Success

    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.

  • Use UNO's Teaching Tools

    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)
    • Zoom (hold and record "live" sessions)
    • Respondus (proctor online exams)
  • Use Peer Mentors

    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) 

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

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

  • Be on the Lookout for Student Who Need Help

    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.

Teaching Tools

  • Canvas

    Canvas Help 

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

    Panopto Help

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

    Panopto Training Video Playlist

  • Zoom

    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
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    Accessibility Resources

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