{"id":94,"date":"2020-03-17T03:58:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T03:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/?p=94"},"modified":"2020-04-04T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T21:14:54","slug":"pushing-your-classes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/2020\/03\/17\/pushing-your-classes-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing your classes online using OneNote, an iPad, Zoom and Piazza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">It&#8217;s March 2020 and MSU Denver has pushed all of its classes online in the interest of curtailing the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Since I&#8217;ve been acquiring some modicum of skill in &#8216;hybridizing&#8217; my classes, I thought I&#8217;d share my workflow for moving my classes online.\u00a0 To be fair, much of what is below is not original, and, in fact, is learned from many of my existing and past colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">What you will need:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Office 365 Educational Subscription<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">iPad with stylus (you *may* be able to do everything I&#8217;ve talked about by using only your computer, but no guarantee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">A willingness to host office hours virtually using Zoom and Piazza<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">A YouTube account (instructions on such provided below)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">First, I talk about how to get your class onto Microsoft OneNote using the \u201cClassroom Notebook.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Second, I talk about how I construct my virtual lectures. I do not require students be present for them, since that may defeat the whole purpose of being flexible in the time of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Then I talk about using Zoom and Piazza for virtual office hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><b>Setting up Microsoft OneNote Classroom Notebook<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Step 1: make sure you and your students have an educational subscription to Microsoft Office 365.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If this is case, then proceed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If not, then it may be enough for everyone involved to have a copy of OneNote, but I cannot confirm that will be sufficient to do what I describe below.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, this is what Microsoft says you need:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">An Office 365 subscription for Education that includes OneDrive for Business. If you&#8217;re not sure you have this, please contact your IT administrator to verify.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">An organizational account for yourself (the teacher) with permissions to use the OneNote Class Notebook app to create the class notebooks.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Your students must have an Office 365 organizational account.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Step 2: Install OneNote on your computer\/tablet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You may also use the web version of OneNote, but it has some limitations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Truth be known, the MacOS version of OneNote is not equal to the Windows version of OneNote and, even still, the web version is also lacking in ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Step 3: To set up a Classroom Notebook, follow the directions here: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/getting-started-with-the-onenote-class-notebook-a-walkthrough-for-teachers-28666b8e-b0ae-48fe-b001-1874f5f6db58?ui=en-us&amp;rs=en-us&amp;ad=us\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/getting-started-with-the-onenote-class-notebook-a-walkthrough-for-teachers-28666b8e-b0ae-48fe-b001-1874f5f6db58?ui=en-us&amp;rs=en-us&amp;ad=us<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The key to Step 3 is making sure you have at your disposal all of the emails of the students in your class.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Have this ready when you are adding students. <b>And save it for later when creating a Piazza site for your students; see below.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Tip when setting up your Classroom Notebook.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 When you create what is called a Page and push it to your students, make sure you push it as a Page and not a Section.\u00a0 From my experience, if you push something to the wrong category, you must delete it from each individual student.\u00a0 Though, as pointed out by Debbie Gaydos at Penn State Greater Allegheny, you can rename a section for each student en masse by clicking on &#8220;manage notebooks&#8221; in the browser\/web version of OneNote or by clicking on such under the &#8220;Class Notebook&#8221; menu and then &#8220;manage notebooks&#8221;.\u00a0 So, if you don&#8217;t want the pain of deleting individually, you could simply rename it as &#8220;empty&#8221; or &#8220;neat things for you&#8221; and fill it with whatever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once you are in your Classroom Notebook, there are a number of things you can do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ll tell you exactly what I\u2019ve done and why.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you modify anything, please share in the comments below how you have modified my approach.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d be curious to see what others are doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><b>Homework, quizzes, exams, basically anything hand-written in OneNote Classroom Notebook<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">If you\u2019re using an online homework system, then you\u2019re already taken care of here.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If not, then here\u2019s how I collect homework using OneNote.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I assign problems from the text<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Students write out their solutions like it\u2019s 1899 (okay, maybe that would have meant they were writing on slate). <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once students have finished their assignments, they scan each page with their phones using an app:<\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol2\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">CamScanner (basic account is free) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camscanner.com\/team\/price\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.camscanner.com\/team\/price<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Adobe Scan (free) <a href=\"https:\/\/acrobat.adobe.com\/us\/en\/mobile\/scanner-app.html\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/acrobat.adobe.com\/us\/en\/mobile\/scanner-app.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Microsoft Office Lens (free with Office 365 subscription)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Many others (tell me your favorite!)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Before students upload, create a Section in your Classroom Notebook called \u201cHomework\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Don\u2019t push it YET!<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In the Homework Section, make pages for each homework assignment you know you will assign, e.g., Homework Week 1 or Homework #1.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once you have the Homework Section set up, push it to each student.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Students then upload their PDF (as a single PDF) to the designated Homework Page.<\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol2\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">What is key here is that students upload their PDF as a \u201cPrintout\u201d (with this verbiage varying across the platforms.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I know on the web version, you click \u201cInsert\u201d on the menu, then \u201cFile\u201d and then \u201cInsert File Printout\u201d. The last one one produces a PDF that you can immediately see and comment on.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">So, what do I do once the PDFs are in the right spot?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I use my iPad (any tablet with OneNote app installed) and my Pencil (any stylus, really) to hand-write comments.<\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol2\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">You also have the opportunity to insert audio clips.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You can make use of this when it may be too much to write\/type comments.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Students can then play the audio file that\u2019s embedded in the OneNote document from any device with access to OneNote.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once you have finished, there\u2019s no need to \u2018save\u2019 in the sense you may be use to.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>All will sync automatically across your devices and the \u2018cloud\u2019, which is why you need a OneDrive account set up, as well (which is probably universally the case if you have an educational MS Office 365 account set up through your institution).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This work flow works for anything hand-written.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I use it for homework and I will soon use it for the students\u2019 second exam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">How does one then do an \u2018online OneNote-uploaded take-home exam?\u2019 The honor system, quite honestly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I plan on releasing the exam via Blackboard at a certain time, making it difficult enough so that students will not be successful in Googling their answers or getting their friends to help, but not so difficult that everyone is crushed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I will then stipulate that the exam must e uploaded to the \u201cExam 2 Page\u201d of the \u201cExam\u201d Section that I will soon create.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They will have 2.5 hours to both take the exam and upload the exam, where two hours is meant for the test and the half hour is for making sure they can work out any technical difficulties.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As a back-up, I would suggest allowing students to simply email you the exam at the 2.5 hour mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><b>Lectures shared through OneNote Classroom Notebook<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">My particular workflow goes as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Screen capture various theorems, definitions, key ideas, examples, etc., and save them as individual files.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Insert the various screen shots into a OneNote Page titled, for example, \u201c02-01-2020 Lecture\u201d so that the pages get ordered correctly (truth be known, the automatic ordering is determined by when something was added, or so it seems). If you manage to see these pages somewhere in Finder (MacOS) or Explorer (Windows), they\u2019ll be ordered according to filename if that\u2019s your default way of viewing files in your respective file browser.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">What I do next is make a video on my iPad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This video is not of me doing something on a white\/chalk board, but rather, of me doing something on the iPad using some app as a <i>digital whiteboard<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This is where it gets interesting.<\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol2\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Using your favorite tablet and note-taking app, you can record a video using built-in screen-recording.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A video might like something like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6rzRtj7s5rQ\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6rzRtj7s5rQ<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">So, how do you gain access to screen-recording? <\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol3\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-roman\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Follow the instructions here for the iPad: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/ipad\/take-a-screenshot-or-screen-recording-ipad08a40f3b\/ipados\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/ipad\/take-a-screenshot-or-screen-recording-ipad08a40f3b\/ipados<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The situation with a Surface is less than perfect, but a Surface can screen one app at a time. Follow the instructions here for the Surface: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TOxzIeIUKjY\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TOxzIeIUKjY<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once you have gained access to screen recording on your tablet, you are almost ready to start.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Since we\u2019re already using OneNote, you can create a Page in your own personal Section in the Classroom Notebook.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is here where you start the screen recording on your tablet and begin writing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Since I am familiar with the iPad, I\u2019ll say what to do next with such a device. When you are done with your recording, click the red camera\/recorder looking icon at the top of your iPad (top-right corner). You will be asked if you want to stop recording.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Say yes and then proceed to the Photos app.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Photos app stores movies AND photos.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Once here, you can export the video to your favorite cloud service or nearby Mac computer with OS X using Airdrop. <\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol3\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-roman\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Similarly, if you have iCloud syncing set up, then in a matter of moments, the file will appear on your Mac computer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">At this point, you want to create a YouTube account at <a href=\"http:\/\/YouTube.com\"><span class=\"s2\">YouTube.com<\/span><\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dummies.com\/social-media\/youtube\/how-to-create-a-youtube-account\/\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.dummies.com\/social-media\/youtube\/how-to-create-a-youtube-account\/<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol3\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-roman\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Dummies article is filled with ads, but is exactly what you need to set up an account.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Watch this series of videos on how to use the so-called YouTube Studio. They are perhaps a bit more than you need, but they are thorough: <a href=\"https:\/\/creatoracademy.youtube.com\/page\/course\/bootcamp-foundations\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/creatoracademy.youtube.com\/page\/course\/bootcamp-foundations<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once you have an idea of how to use the YouTube Studio, you\u2019re ready to upload your video<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Return to your tablet and download the YouTube app.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Again, I\u2019ll be talking about the iPad.<\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol3\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-roman\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once you have the iPad app installed on your iPad, you can upload videos to YouTube according to this tutorial: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/57407?co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS&amp;hl=en\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/57407?co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS&amp;hl=en<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Pro-tip: make the video \u2018unlisted\u2019 if you\u2019re not one who likes your videos being found via a search. I\u2019ve done this to all of my videos so they remain embedded in my OneNote Page.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I want to keep the lecture self-contained and you\u2019ll soon see what I mean by that.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Now that the video is uploaded to YouTube, go to your computer and open up Safari (again, I\u2019m using a Mac, but you can easily do the same on a surface).<\/span>\n<ol class=\"ol3\" style=\"list-style-type: lower-roman\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Go to your YouTube account, log in and select to watch your video from the YouTube Studio. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">You are now watching the video in Safari (that\u2019s important).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Click on the \u2018up arrow\u2019 icon at the top of the Safari Browser to share the video with OneNote.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>No other way of sharing will accomplish what we want, this being <i>embedding<\/i> the video.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once the video is shared with OneNote, it shows up as a Page in your Classroom Notebook.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Go to the video, select it, right click on it and then select \u2018cut\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Go to your \u201cLecture 1\u201d Page and \u2018paste\u2019 in the video next to whatever the video was explaining.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019ve now got part of your lecture built.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Here is a link to a finished product: <a href=\"https:\/\/msudenver-my.sharepoint.com\/:o:\/g\/personal\/niemeye1_msudenver_edu\/Ev-OvctOUYdGvZ_SUCIvMNcBP8lGnH_35mizCj_cRu9rmA?e=RkIQWY\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/msudenver-my.sharepoint.com\/:o:\/g\/personal\/niemeye1_msudenver_edu\/Ev-OvctOUYdGvZ_SUCIvMNcBP8lGnH_35mizCj_cRu9rmA?e=Aft9g4<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">You\u2019ll notice I made a mistake in one of the videos if you watch it (or you notice the text around the video saying there is a mistake).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This will happen and OneNote gives you the opportunity to write freely around items, as you can see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Some added notes: YouTube automatically provides closed-captioning for hearing-impaired. This makes you ADA compliant. Yay!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Embedding your videos this way allows students to reduce the quality or increase the quality so that they can watch the video without any hiccups (remember, not all students have internet or high-speed internet).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><b>Using Zoom and Piazza for virtual office hours<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Now, onto Zoom and Piazza.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Zoom is great. It\u2019s the new Skype and better than Skype.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There is a free account that allows students to join your meeting.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You can also create a basic account, but it\u2019ll cap your meeting to 40 minutes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now, in the interest of being flexible and generous, Zoom seems to have removed this cap for anyone with a .edu email address.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Also, if you\u2019re familiar with Microsoft Teams, Zoom is built in and apparently has not cap for those with an Office 365 subscription. <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Check out this for creating a Zoom account and getting started with Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-ik5o6WptX0\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/-ik5o6WptX0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once you\u2019ve done that, you should download the client for your iPad\/Surface\/Computer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once you have the client installed on your device, you\u2019re ready to Zoom.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Open the app, start a meeting and choose to use your personal meeting ID.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From what I can tell, this doesn\u2019t ever change and is a perfect way to let students into the virtual meeting. Just give them the ID number in an email or posted in Blackboard, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once in the app, you can share your screen. This is particularly useful if you have a document you want to discuss with the student or if you\u2019re using a tablet and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>you want to return to your favorite note-taking app (or, OneNote) to write out an example for all of those in the meeting to watch.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">You share the screen by selecting \u201cShare\u201d at the top of the screen and selecting \u201cShare Screen\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You will see that you can also select a digital whiteboard, but I find this a bit limiting, as I like to go between apps on my device, sometimes writing, sometimes graphing using GeoGebra or Desmos.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">That pretty much should do it for Zoom meetings.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Questions on that, comment below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Now onto Piazza. You can view my Calculus III Piazza site here: <a href=\"https:\/\/piazza.com\/demo_login?nid=k5frei3habg717&amp;auth=e743a7d\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/piazza.com\/demo_login?nid=k5frei3habg717&amp;auth=e743a7d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Basically, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/piazza.com\"><span class=\"s2\">piazza.com<\/span><\/a> and create an account using your .edu email address.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In the process of doing this, you have the option to enroll students.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Use the list of email addresses you used before when creating a Classroom Notebook.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Once set up, students will get an email letting them know that a Piazza site has been created.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is where you and others can collaboratively answer questions. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This is a great alternative to Blackboard (or any LMS, really), since all of them tend to be very clunky and unfriendly to mathematics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">You will notice when testing it out that you can type in LaTeX using $$ surrounding your code.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Students can also point and click in a menu or they can simply upload a picture of what they\u2019ve done and where they are stuck.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Again, look at my Calculus III guest preview above for more insight into how to use Piazza.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt\">For more on how I got to this point in my teaching, see the blog on \u201cHybridizing your classroom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Questions or comments, please post below.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s March 2020 and MSU Denver has pushed all of its classes online in the interest of curtailing the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).\u00a0 Since I&#8217;ve been acquiring some modicum of skill in &#8216;hybridizing&#8217; my classes, I thought I&#8217;d share my workflow for moving my classes online.\u00a0 To be fair, much of what is below &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/2020\/03\/17\/pushing-your-classes-online\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hybrid-and-online-teaching","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/niemeye1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}