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It is important that we recognize this fall we will continue to have students who are impacted by COVID-19 and will need to be in isolation or quarantine. Having lecture capture last academic year was a blessing for the institution by allowing us to support students in ways that would not have been possible otherwise. This fall, we will be taking another needed step to support our students by providing class recordings if a student is unable to attend class due to a pre-approved University-sponsored event. We want to encourage students to participate and engage in university-sponsored activities and they can now do so knowing their academic experience will be more fully supported. These new Lecture Capture guidelines also were carefully developed with input from faculty, students, staff, department chairs/assistant deans, faculty senate, ACT, and P6 before going to SLT for final approval. The guidelines also contain several examples of when using lecture is recommended, but no considered necessary, for our students. More information about using lecture capture will be shared as we approach the beginning of the semester.
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Since we are removing physical distancing this fall we will need to be more prepared to identify students if contact tracing is needed. At this time, a close contact is still defined as: someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period. Health Services has stated the value of having seating charts available for every class should the need for contact tracing occur. To help address this need, all faculty will create a seating chart this fall and post it to Moodle for Health Services to access when needed. Additional details on this process will be shared closer to the beginning of the term.
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