In anticipation to the fall 2020 semester, we have coordinated resources and trainings at the following page:
Fall 2020 Preparation page
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This page describes resources to help instructors continue to facilitate their courses online. Below are resources and a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for JHU faculty who teach residential students in KSAS and WSE.
Begin by reviewing the resources on this page to consider how you will continue to teach remotely. You can contact the Center for Educational Resources (cerweb@jhu.edu) to discuss options or learn more about the resources below. An MS Teams site also exists for faculty to share strategies they are using to teach remotely. Instructions for joining the Teams community are available but you will need your JHED login to access them.
Please refer to the following site about JHU's policies on continuing instruction during this time:
The following page can be shared with your students to prepare them for your class taught remotely:
Students: Preparing to Take Courses Remotely
Activate your Blackboard course if you haven't already (PDF Instructions: Making your Course Available in Bb). Students know to go to Blackboard for course information, and they will check there for course updates. Whichever tools you use, be sure to communicate your plans to students and use Blackboard as the central hub of communication.
An extensive list of Blackboard help resources is available at, https://cer.jhu.edu/tools-and-tech/blackboard
These are the most frequently asked questions for teaching during a campus closure.
(Click each question to reveal information about that topic.)
You can email all the students in your class using the following options.
All Homewood courses enroll students in a Blackboard site (http://blackboard.jhu.edu/).
You can add a teaching assistant, additional faculty (if you get sick), or staff to your course site:
Panopto is a lecture-capture and cloud-hosting service available to Homewood faculty. You can use it to record lectures on your laptop - video or audio-only - synced with PowerPoint slides or screen captures. Panopto creates a machine-generated transcript that can be edited if required to meet student accommodations. Please note including video of the lecturer is nice, but not required unless you are conducting a demonstration. CER can provide a web camera if campus is open, but consider recording audio-only lectures if needed.
To facilitate synchronous (real-time) discussions, faculty can use Zoom, a cloud-hosted, online collaboration platform enabling real-time communication to support course delivery, trainings, meetings, open houses/webinars, office hours, remote support, and ad-hoc collaborations.
More information about Zoom found here: https://cer.jhu.edu/tools-and-tech/zoom
NOTE: After signing in, if you notice that you have a "Basic" account instead of a "Licensed" account listed in your Profile, please sign out, close your browser and Zoom application (if it's running), then sign in again using the method listed above according to your affilliation. Students do not need licensed Zoom accounts to join Zoom meetings. If students want to host their own meetings (any student), they can obatain a licesnsed account here: https://jhubluejays.zoom.us
The following is a helpful document you can edit and share with your students about the use of Zoom for class:
https://cer.jhu.edu/files/ZOOM-what-to-communicate-to-students.docx
To facilitate asynchronously discussions (not live), faculty can choose from the following discussion tools.
MS Teams - is a Microsoft tool that is available to the JHU community. Instructions for accessing Teams, creating a Team, and more is available at https://cer.jhu.edu/tools-and-tech/teams
Piazza - Is a third-party tool many Homewood faculty use. You will need to create an account and then add your students to the Piazza group: https://cer.jhu.edu/files/InnovInstruct-Tech_piazza.pdf
Blackboard Discussions – Use the discussion board availble in Blackboard: https://uis.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Discussion-Board_SP13.pdf
You can have students conduct discussions or work on assignments together in smaller groups within your class. Here are two options to consider:
The following video tutorials were developed by the WSE Center for Learning Design staff who have extensive experience helping fauclty teach online.
Instructors Teaching Online (Blackboard course site)
"Instructors Teaching Online" is a self-paced online orientation for faculty who are new to online teaching that was developed by the WSE Center for Learning Design. This orientation provides a broad introduction to teaching online, including:
Faculty can self-enroll following these steps:
You may want to reconsider the structure of your assessments if students cannot meet for an extended period.
Additional strategies and suggestions can be found here, https://cer.jhu.edu/teaching/assessing-students-remotely
Email and Blackboard are not setup to facilitate sharing large files. The limit on email attachments is 25MB, and the total file size for each Blackboard course is 2GB. If you need to share large files with your class, consider the following options.
Many applications available in the computer classrooms can also be accessed from http://my.jh.edu (choose Cloud --> My Cloud from the menu on the left) or from the KSAS remote application server. These include Stata IC, SPSS, Aspen, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI and IDL. Contact a Krieger IT staff (https://krieger.jhu.edu/it/contact/) for access to the KSAS remote applications.
Teaching labs and design courses remotely will require modified approaches, but can be done. Please consult the Conducting Design and Lab Courses Remotely page for resources and help available.
Many university resources are restricted to the campus network, which means you need to use the virtual private network (VPN) application to connect to them. You can download the VPN software from the JHU Portal (http://my.jhu.edu : Choose VPN--> Install VPN from menu on the left.) Instructions and a frequently access question (F.A.Q.) list is provided.
When you log in to the VPN software, you will be asked for your JHED username and password. You will then be asked for a code provided by the AZURE Authenticator software. Instructions for installing the AZURE Authenticator software are available at https://it.johnshopkins.edu/services/directoryservices/jhea/AzureMFA/AzureLoginMFA.
Send requests to reserves@jhu.edu. Staff will make course material (articles, e-books) available from a link in your Blackboard site. Additional information about how the library can help faculty and students is available at https://www.library.jhu.edu/library-services/distance-learning-support/.
If you choose to post your own readings and films:
At the end of the course, please remove all pdfs and weblinks you added.
The Student Disability Services team created a page with common questions answered. You can also contact the office directly at studentdisabilityservices@jhu.edu.
NOTE: All upcoming trainings for KSAS and WSE faculty is part of a coordinated effort by the CER for Fall 2020 Preparations. For a complete list of upcoming training sessions, please visit our Fall 2020 Preparation page
All in-person training has been cancelled due to social distancing recommendations and the closure of the MSE library. Faculty can attend online training on the topics/times listed below. Additionally, 1:1 or group training requests can be scheduled via remote appointments only by emailing cerweb@jhu.edu.