Connect (IVC)

Key Principles for Success

• Expect to teach from the assigned origination classroom. Teaching from an office is not permitted for the Connect delivery method.
• Keep in mind that students will have a choice of where to attend. They can attend at their assigned classroom or from another location, such as home, via Zoom.
• You can encourage students to turn on mic and cameras, but they are not required to.
• Meetings can be recorded but are not required to be recorded.
• When asking questions, wait a little longer than usual to let students answer. It may take them longer.

Managing Participants Joining from Elsewhere:

• Encourage students attending via Zoom to keep their cameras on during class.
• Regularly watch the chat for remote student comments and questions, or task a student in the classroom to do so. Utilize the Zoom chat function to effectively communicate with remote students.
• Use Zoom breakout rooms to allow students who are by themselves to work with or discuss class material with classmates. Breakout room groups can use the whiteboard to collaborate with each other.
• When asking questions during class, wait a little longer than you would in a traditional classroom as it might take students a little longer to answer while they come up with an answer and turn on their microphones.

Outside of Class Time:

• Use Canvas for materials distribution and homework collection.

Preparation

Logistics of How a Connect Class is Run:

• The Zoom class meeting is created for the instructor and is set-up with the instructor as the Host of the meeting. Please don't change any of the Zoom meeting settings or delete the meeting that was created for you.
• The Zoom link has been enabled in Canvas. Students can use this link to connect to the class. The instructor will use it to publish recordings to be accessed by students, if desired.
• The meeting will either automatically connect to the classroom (Zoom Room) or the facilitator will connect the room equipment to the meeting.
• There will be a facilitator in the room where the course originates to help you with technical aspects of ensuring the receiving classrooms are connected to the meeting, sharing what is on the computer, and switching between instructor and student cameras, as necessary.
• The instructor may log into Zoom from a laptop, tablet, or cell phone to start or stop recordings and manage breakout rooms. (Don't connect audio on this device.)
• Participants, both at remote classrooms and from home, will be displayed on a monitor within the classroom. The facilitator can help adjust the layout, as needed.

Preparing for Class

• Prepare activities for your students that encourage students to talk or work together. Utilize Zoom Breakout Rooms, polls, and whiteboards to facilitate interaction with and among students participating from home.
• Simplify sharing presentations by having material accessible from the classroom computer.
  • Upload PowerPoint presentations to Box or Canvas (No need to publish the files to make them accessible to students unless desired.)
  • Demonstrate math problems, draw, or annotate using the classroom interactive display (monitor) and annotation software (such as Zoom Docs, OneNote, or PowerPoint).

Course Management

Course Quality

Engagement Strategies

Assessment

If you have students participating in class from out of state and the exams need to be proctored, remote proctoring via Proctorio will likely be the best option.

Relevant Articles

For USU's Zoom resources find the Zoom menu under "Teaching Software."