Remote Teaching Options
See below for support documentation and training opportunities for remote and hybrid teaching:
- Training Opportunities
- Hardware Recommendations
- Internet Recommendations
- Hybrid Teaching Overview
- Remote Teaching with Zoom
- Office Hours
- Zoom Security Settings
- Record a Lecture at Home with Panopto
- Record an Interview
- Guest Speakers and Student Presentations
- Other Teaching Tools
- Accessing Canvas
- Canvas Tools
Training Opportunities
See our training page to sign up for live training with ITS
Hardware Recommendations
See here for our recommended list of recording equipment
Internet Connectivity Recommendations
Overview of Hybrid teaching
- See here for an overview of teaching in person with some remote students
- Dual-Delivery guide for faculty
- Dual-Delivery Technology: Matrix of capabilities by room
Remote Teaching with Zoom
Zoom allows a remote instructor to send their video and/or screen share and teach remotely.
Office Hours
Please follow these instructions to setup virtual office hours in Zoom for the upcoming term. The instructions also include how to add your Office Hours link to your courses menu in Canvas or use the Canvas Scheduler to allow students to signup for times.
Zoom Security Settings
Record a Lecture
Using Panopto, instructors can record their camera feed and/or their screen capture, with synchronized audio.
Record an Interview
Using Zoom, instructors can conduct a video conference with 2 or more people and record the session in a variety of formats.
Guest Speakers and Student Presentations
How to send a link to your Zoom Course call to a guest speaker. How to grant students or guests the ability to share their screen.
Teaching Assistants
Other Teaching Tools
Contact itsmedia@law.upenn.edu for licensing information and training.
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Perusall
- Online “social” e-reader and note-taking platform
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Poll Everywhere
- Survey tool with robust question types and statistics. Can be stand-alone web app or integrated with Powerpoint.
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Polling with Zoom (“non verbal feedback”)
- You can do simple polling (called “non-verbal feedback”) with Zoom.
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Full-featured polling in Zoom with different question types is not available with Penn Law’s implementation.
- Raise Hand / Lower Hand
- yes/no
- go slower/go faster
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Additional icons are available by clicking the more button:
- agree/disagree
- clap
- need a break
- away
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Digital Whiteboard
- Zoom, Microsoft, and Powerpoint offer different ways to implement a digital whiteboard into your teaching and recordings.
Accessing Canvas
To access the Penn Law Canvas site, go to https://canvas.law.upenn.edu and login with your PennKey username and password. If you are new to Canvas, begin with Getting Started with Canvas.
Canvas Tools
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Canvas Announcements
- Instructors can use Canvas Announcements to contact their class. An email is sent to all enrolled students as soon as the announcement is created. The announcement is also saved to an archive on the Canvas site.
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Canvas Discussions
- Allows for asynchronous, threaded discussions on your Canvas course site.
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Quizzes
- The quiz tool can be used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys.
- Collecting Assignments/Papers through Canvas
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To get started, review the following guides:
- Creating an online assignment in Canvas
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Detailed instructions for using assignments is available at https://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/c/23831
Don’t forget to publish assignments when you are ready for students to access them.
