On Behalf of the Instructional Support Team - Update - March 20

A message sent on behalf of Linda Adler-Kassner, Faculty Director, Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL)
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March 20, 2020

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks for all you’re doing. Here’s what you can expect early and mid-late next week, and beyond.

Workshops: We are transitioning workshops into GauchoSpace pages and other activities you can review and complete at your leisure. We’ll post a complete list on the workshops document and will have all sites linked to the redesigned Instructional Continuity site (coming late next week - see below).

Early next week: 
Remote learning survey for students -  template you can use with your students to learn about their access to and comfort with technology

TA resources: By Wed, 3/25, we will have a new tutorial designed to help TAs learn strategies for online teaching and technologies that support these approaches.  Within this tutorial will be opportunities for TAs to practice using the technologies and to ask questions. The new tutorial will be linked on the Instructional Continuity Site and announced on Grad Post.  TAs can get up to speed on GauchoCast and Zoom by joining the self-guided “Teaching with GauchoCast and Zoom” GauchoSpace site.\

Drop-in hours with Mindy Colin, Lisa Berry, Linda Adler-Kassner, and Maggie Safronova are posted on this calendar, which is part of the Instructional Continuity Site. We will add drop in hours through next week and each week of the term as needed.

COLLABORATE Faculty Resource Center staff are available daily to assist with GauchoSpace questions and provide one-on-one consultations via Zoom. Get in touch with the staff here.

Panopto Update: The GauchoCast/Panopto server will be upgraded on March 23. The server may be offline during the upgrade. DON’T PANIC IF YOUR VIDEOS DON’T UPLOAD!   You can get a decent "sneak preview" in the Panopto Recorder application by toggling between "Primary Video" and "Secondary Video" (look for Preview above the picture of your talking head).  You can also record videos “Offline” (instead of to “My Folder” or the course folder) and then upload them once we upgrade the server late next week.

GauchoSpace will be unavailable Thursday, March 26 from 6 am to 2 pm for systems updates and maintenance. More info about the update here.

Coming Mid-late next week:
Website for students to keep learning - resources from ONDAS, Transfer Student Center, CLAS, EOP, and more

Instructional Continuity website redesign - clearer links to resources

On the horizon:

Additional personnel to provide support for instructors and TAs during remote instruction

Remember to take some down time over the weekend -- breathe, rest, recharge, and get outside in socially distant ways. We’ll be here for you next week and beyond.