Keep Teaching Remotely During an Emergency

Make your Canvas course available to students:

• Publish Canvas Course Open External Link  
  Every course created in Banner has an associated Canvas section. You can access it by going to https://usu.instructure.com and logging in with your A-number and strong password.

Submit an Online Conversion Help Request

Suggestions for keeping in touch:

• Communicating with Students using Canvas Announcements
  This is the easiest way to communicate with all of the students in your class. You can use announcements to:
  • Send a written message
  • Record and upload a video
  • Distribute files
  • Link to web resources or other course components
    Note: Students have the option of changing their notification preferences in Canvas and may not receive announcements outside of Canvas. Encourage them to set Announcement Notification Open External Link to at least a daily notification of announcement posts.
• Canvas Conversations Open External Link   (message)
  Send a text-only message to your students. You can add one attachment.
• Email
  If you need to email all of your students, and you don’t want to use Canvas, you can get a list of email addresses for all of your students in Banner and use your regular email client to send/receive messages.

Record yourself or a presentation:

• Record on your own using MyMedia (Kaltura)
  
  • Use a Public Video Link to email the video to students.
  • Consider keeping videos a maximum of 20 minutes.
• Record lectures in the Academic Media Production Studios for MyMedia (Kaltura)
  
  • Schedule the Audio Studio (DE 101) to create voice-over screen captures with Kaltura Desktop Capture.
  • Schedule the Video Studio (DE 101) to create videos with both instructor camera and/or screen capture with Kaltura Desktop Capture.
  • Both studios have on-screen annotating capabilities.

Meet virtually. Consider implication carefully:

• Zoom
  Use for one-on-one conferences or office hours for students who have confirmed they have computers, internet, or phone access.
  Zoom is the USU-supported method for web conferencing. It allows for students to join from a computer or connect to the audio by calling in from a telephone. There is no toll-free number for the dial-in option.

Provide students with readings, worksheets, or resource files:

•  Canvas
  • Add a file to an announcement Open External Link  
• Email
  • Add files to Box and distribute a link to the folder via email.

For downloadable files, keep the file size as small as possible.

A good place for content:

• LibGuides
  Resources for your subject and maybe even a specific course.
• Subject Librarians
  Email your subject librarian for a virtual research consultation
• Need other library help? Email library.help@usu.edu

Ensure your materials are accessible for all students:

• If you have been informed by the Disability Resource Center that you have a student with a disability in your course, be mindful of any accommodations you have been asked to make.
• Make sure your online content is accessible. The way you make your content available and communicate with students can make a big difference in making sure your online course materials are accessible and inclusive for all students and helping to ease concerns and anxiety during a difficult time. Accessible Remote Teaching Resources.

Make the most of asynchronous Q&A:

• Canvas Discussions Open External Link  

Continue meeting with students one-on-one:

• Instructions for using Zoom
• Integrate Zoom in Canvas
• Set-up Zoom for Office Hours

Collect students' digital work:

• Canvas Assignments Open External Link
• (Make sure that you indicate the assignment will be submitted online Open External Link , and choose the “file upload” option for the submission type. Don't forget to Save & Publish)
• Plagiarism Detection using Copyleaks

Keep students progressing:

• Canvas SpeedGrader Open External Link  
  The SpeedGrader is the grading mechanism in Canvas for providing feedback to students.
• Hide Grades until You are Ready to Publish them using a Grade Posting Policy Open External Link  
  If you want to grade all submissions before any students see feedback, you can use a manual grade posting policy.

Multiple-choice, true/false, essay, and more:

• Remote Quizzes and Exams provide more information about this topic.

Keep records up-to-date:

• Canvas Gradebook Open External Link

If you start using Canvas mid-semester, you might want to create some "On Paper" assignments to enter previous grades so students will know where they stand in the course overall and to allow you to calculate final grades.