Creating a temporary course using real-time virtual class meetings will be more involved than taking your current classroom routine and moving it in front of a camera.
Shorten classes: if possible, reduce face time. For students used to being in an active and engaging classroom, thirty minutes in a video conference room will be challenging.
Keep your webcam on as much as possible. Students may still walk away from their computers while you're teaching, but they are less likely to get bored if they can at least see your face as opposed to just your screen.
RECORD every session and make the recordings available for students to review. Before starting the recording, let your students know you're recording and why.
Pepper your live online lessons with lots of little check-in questions for the group. You won't have the ability to read the room like you do on campus.
Encourage students to ask questions. You might even say something like, "at the ten minute mark I'm going to pause to give everyone a chance to enter a question into the chat."
If you live in a rural area like me and you don't have the fastest Internet connection, make sure other people in your house aren't streaming at the same time you're trying to broadcast live video.
Google Hangouts Meet is part of our Coe Google Apps package. Up to 250 people can be in one meeting with no restrictions on time. You can schedule the meetings in your gmail calendar and invite all your students to the meeting. Google Calendar will generate a link to the meeting. When you're ready to launch the meeting, go to your calendar entry and click "Join Hangouts Meet" (students will enter the same way). Screen sharing, chats, and recording are available.
Google Hangouts Meet Cheat Sheet
Zoom.us is an online web conferencing tool that has been popular at Coe for conducting interviews for new faculty. Zoom can host up to 100 participants per conference with a 40 minute maximum meeting time. Chat functions, screen sharing, and recording are standard features; for the foreseeable future, Zoom has also added the premium feature of breakout rooms to the free license.
Zoom's annotating tool: in the screen sharing options for Zoom, you can select a white board for sharing annotations.
Lisa's Google Slides:
We will be creating "hosting" rooms in the library: these will be fully equipped and ready for you to step in to and start a live video conference with your students. To the extent possible, we will have staff to help you get started and to troubleshoot. A self-scheduling calendar will be available here by mid-week of second spring break week (in/around March 24) and training workshops will also be scheduled for the week of March 23.