Policies for Online Sessions

WebCam & Microphone

• Webcam On!  - Keep your webcam ON during class and during breakout rooms.  The following are a few reasons why keeping your webcam on is so important.

• Lighting - Make certain your face is adequately illuminated.

• Microphone - Please test your microphone before logging on.  Make sure you can quickly turn it on/off at appropriate times

• Virtual Background - Select a non-distracting  virtual background.  This will protect the privacy of your home and inhabitants and will prevent distraction.

Participation

This class is highly interactive, and participation plays a significant role in your grade.  Make sure you watch these videos and are familiar with the techniques prior to the first session.

• • Zoom Annotations - You will mark up the screen using the arrow tool, stamp tool, or box tool.  Using Zoom's Annotation features to mark-up an instructional video  [5:34]

  • Quickwrites - You will be asked to make predictions and short short explanations throughout each session. Quickwrites - Collaborative Spreadsheets [6:44

• Login to Zoom, regardless if you are on campus or not.

• Contribute  to all collaborative feedback mechanisms (quickwrites, collaborative slides, Zoom annotations, etc.)

• Watch videos of class sessions you missed.  If you miss class for any reason, please watch the entire class video.  The system records who watches videos, and for how long. 

• Editorial work. Peform all editorial work in a timely manner

Multiple Monitors

I strongly encourage you to connect a second monitor to your computer to allow you sufficient space to watch the Zoom window while simultaneously working on projects and responding to prompts.  It is very difficult to be adequately responsive to prompts when using on a single montior.

• On Windows:

  • • Right-click on the desktop and select "Display settings."

    • Under "Multiple displays," select "Extend these displays" to use the monitor as an extended screen.

• On macOS:

  • • Open "System Preferences" and go to "Displays."

    • Click the "Arrangement" tab and uncheck "Mirror Displays" to extend your screen.