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
  • Poll Everywhere
  • Zoom Polling (“non-verbal feedback”)
  • Digital Whiteboard
• Accessing Canvas
• Canvas Tools
  • Communicating with your Class
  • Canvas Discussions
  • Collecting Assignments/Papers through Canvas

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

• See here for recommendations about bandwidth and connection options

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.

• See detailed instructions on connecting to and managing a Zoom call here

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

• See here for instructions on managing security settings for Zoom calls

Record a Lecture

Using Panopto, instructors can record their camera feed and/or their screen capture, with synchronized audio.

• See detailed instructions on recording and editing with Panopto

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.

• See detailed instructions here on recording a remote interview

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.

• See detailed instructions here for guest speakers and student presenters

Teaching Assistants

• See here for tips for Teaching Assistants

Other Teaching Tools

Contact itsmedia@law.upenn.edu for licensing information and training.

• Poll Everywhere
  • Survey tool with robust question types and statistics. Can be stand-alone web app or integrated with Powerpoint. 
• Polling with Zoom (“non verbal feedback”)
  • You can do simple polling (called “non-verbal feedback”) with Zoom.
  • Full-featured polling in Zoom with different question types is not available with Penn Carey Law’s implementation. 
    • Raise Hand / Lower Hand
    • yes/no
    • go slower/go faster
    • Additional icons are available by clicking the more button:
      • agree/disagree
      • clap
      • need a break
      • away
• 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

• 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.
    • Detailed instructions here
• Canvas Discussions
  • Allows for asynchronous, threaded discussions on your Canvas course site.
    • Overview of Canvas Discussions
    • Detailed instructions
• Quizzes
  • The quiz tool can be used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys.
    • Detailed Instructions here
• Collecting Assignments/Papers through Canvas
• To get started, review the following guides:
  •  Creating an online assignment in Canvas
  • 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.

 

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