3/9 Remote Teaching/Zoom Training
To: BUSM Faculty
From: Jana Mulkern, Associate Director, & Lucy Milne, Director, BUMC IT EdMedia, Instructional Services & Central Scheduling
Date: March 9, 2020
Re: Remote Teaching/Zoom Training
In an effort to provide faculty with tools and resources for effective remote teaching, we’re planning Zoom training sessions and including the handout as a self-directed guide as well.
BU faculty, staff and students now have access to a Zoom Pro account. This allows for live, two-way web meetings that can be recorded, and it is our go-to solution for conducting remote classes. We have Zoom training sessions running this Tuesday, March 10, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in R107 (a computer lab for hands-on options), and Wednesday, March 11, from 11 a.m.-noon in L411 (a BYOD – Bring Your Own Device – session). We plan to run training sessions multiple times a week going forward based on demand. Register here. Feel free to stop by even if you haven’t registered, but if space becomes an issue, pre-registered participants will have priority.
Zoom is recommended for remote teaching of lectures and small group sessions. A Zoom link can be added to your course Blackboard site for student access to sessions. A training handout for Zoom online meetings and saving those meetings as videos for sharing may be found here.
Finally, we’ve mapped our instructional tech staff to curriculum departments with Spring courses, should you need to reach out for questions/help (or to find last year’s Echo recordings to post in substitution). We’re sharing staff members’ BU email and cell numbers (alphabetical by first name, and course prefixes are listed alphabetically within each column). See screenshot below. When reaching out to support staff by email, please also cc’ edtech@bu.edu which is a team distribution email, jmulkern@bu.edu, and lmilne@bu.edu to provide redundancy within our team.
Should non-curriculum groups need remote instructional support, please email edtech@bu.edu, jmulkern@bu.edu, and lmilne@bu.edu.
If you have other questions or concerns regarding EdMedia’s remote instructional service plans, please contact Associate Director Jana Mulkern at 617-999-8743, jmulkern@bu.edu and/or Director Lucy Milne 617-279-3535 lmilne@bu.edu. We are on standby to support you.