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Dividing Your Class into Groups

Manual

You can divide your class list manually. Examples for how to do this include:

  • Take your class list and divide it in half for T/Th courses or in thirds for M/W/F courses
  • Assign A, B, and C groups (for M/W/F courses) or A and B groups (for T/Th courses) when going through your class list.  

Using Moodle

You could also create random groups in Moodle. For instructions on how to create and use groups in Moodle, go to the Creating and Using Groups page in Confluence. Using groups in Moodle can also allow you to release resources and activities in Moodle to specific groups throughout the course. 

Letting students know which class they should attend

Students will need you to tell them which class period they should attend in person before the first day of class. You can let students know which class to attend through a number of ways:

  • Welcome email before the beginning of class
  • Announcement in Moodle
Distributing HandoutsYou can post your handouts in Moodle for students to access and download.
Distributing PowerPointsThe lecture capture equipment may not clearly show your PowerPoints to your students if you do not share your screen. You can post your PowerPoint slides in Moodle for students to access and download.
Tracking Attendance

Manual

Taking roll can be done similarly to your current method with the addition of looking at the Participants list in Zoom.

Moodle

Moodle offers a few ways for you to take attendance. With Moodle, you can take attendance yourself or allow students to self-report their attendance. For more information on how Moodle can help with attendance, visit this Confluence page.  

Covering ContentHandling all of the technology and interacting with different groups of students will take some time. Plan for that. You will likely not be able to cover everything that you would normally cover in the classroom. For some topics, consider whether another way of presenting the information would work as well as spending time in class covering the same information.
Monitoring Questions from Remote Students

Remote students will have questions much like students in the classroom. There are a few techniques that can help you monitor student questions.

  1. Make clear to remote students your preferred method for questions.
    1. Do you prefer students to unmute themselves and ask their question aloud?
    2. Do you prefer students to type their questions in the chat in Zoom?
  2. At the beginning of the semester, ask a few students from each in-class group to log into Zoom and monitor student questions from the chat to bring them to your attention. This can be especially helpful if there is a technical issue.
  3. Take more frequent breaks for questions than you normally would.
Handling Large Group Discussion
Handling Small Group Discussion
Using a Doc Cam

Our recommendation would be to digitize your content and add it to a PowerPoint. That might be the simplest way. You can use the Doc Cam, but you cannot use it in the normal way by switching the Extron device. Remember, everything in the Zoom meeting is going through the computer, so you must choose the Doc Cam as a second camera.

Fortunately, the Doc cams are also tied into the computer through a USB port. In Zoom, choose Share Screen->Advanced tab->Content from 2nd Camera. That wouldn't be too hard except for one small adjustment: you will need to rotate the image. To do that, change the Extron device to Doc Cam, press the Doc Cam's menu button, navigate over to Image, and rotate. Now switch back to Computer on the Extron switch and you can show the both your face and the content under the Doc Cam.





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