Library Support for Shifting to Online Teaching

The Office of Instruction & Assessment offers a wealth of resources:

• Planning for Remote Teaching
• Teaching Models (including Other Resources)
• Stage 2 and 3 Teaching Tips

See resources from UA Digital Learning too:

• Rapid Online Deployment
• Thoughtful Preparation for Rapid Online Deployment
• Instructional Technologies for Digital Learning

Instructors can contact the Office of Instruction & Assessment by email or at 520-621-7788 for help transitioning to remote teaching.

The OIA also offers webinars and classes. You can view recordings of previous webinars.

• "Free-to-Use Course Materials" webinar (UA Libraries) - PowerPoint slides are licensed CC BY for reuse



Other Resources:

• Delivering High-Quality Instruction Online in Response to COVID-19: Faculty Playbook [Online Learning Consortium, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and Every Learner Everywhere]
• How to Help Struggling Students Succeed Online [Chronicle of Higher Education, featuring advice from Melody Buckner, UA's associate vice provost for digital learning initiatives and online education]
• Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start [Chronicle of Higher Education]
• Prepare for When Classes Can't Meet and Instructor FAQ [University of Washington]
• Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption [Stanford]: Google document prepared by two academic technology specialists for Stanford faculty.

To log into Zoom:

• General meetings: log in with NetID at arizona.zoom.us
• Course-specific meetings: use D2L. Instructions are at zoom.arizona.edu​
• Members of the Arizona Health Sciences Center: go to http://uahs.zoom.us and log in with your NetID.

Hosts for meetings with HIPAA-covered content must complete Zoom for Health Training first. 

• HIPAA content meeting: log in with NetID at hipaa-zoom.arizona.edu

Zoom offers many resources in its Help Center, including Live Training and Technical Support.
UA's Think Tank offers a Getting Started with Zoom guide.

<Tips & Tricks: Teachers Educating on Zoom [Zoom]: 2-page PDF with notes about pedagogy and links to guides for Zoom features. March 2020

Zoom: Teach Online Class Sessions [Univ. of Minnesota Information Technology]: Includes sample agenda for a class session with notes about the different Zoom tools you'd use and what prep you need to do to use them well.

Panopto is the university's video streaming and lecture capture platform. Panopto is integrated into D2L/Brightspace but can also be used outside of a D2L/Brightspace course.  It accomplishes several core tasks:

• Record your classroom. (Students can watch the recordings for reviewing difficult materials before major assessments.)
• Record mini-lectures or introductions for your course and embed them in D2L.
• Live stream study sessions with students chatting questions to you.
• Have students create their own recordings of themselves, items outside of the classroom, or events and then upload them to your Panopto Assignment Folder via the D2L integration.
• Stream MP4s that you have access to. (The library can assist you in securing streaming access.)



Panopto training and Help

Email Josh Butcher or Academic Technologies. View the UA's online help pages at: 

• Panopto Instructor Help Page
• Panopto Student Help Page

• Inclusivity in the Zoom Classroom: A Practical Guide (Office of Instruction & Assessment)
• Christy M. Rhodes & Steven W. Schmidt, Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Online Classroom, eLearn Magazine (Nov. 2018)
• Karen Milheim, A Fundamental Look at Cultural Diversity and the Online Classroom, eLearn Magazine (2017)