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Getting Ready to Teach: Winter 2022

Use the checklist below as a guide to help you get ready. For technical questions, email kis@kellogg.northwestern.edu; for teaching support questions, email teachingsupport@kellogg.northwestern.edu. Optional Meeting: 12/27 @11am – Join Sunil and Ishrat and ask any question you may have as you prepare to teaching remotely the first 2 weeks of January.  Zoom link forthcoming. Remote Teaching Update the

Don’t Use Virtual Backgrounds: Advice from Tim Calkins

Tim Calkins says: So let me offer one piece of advice: show your real background. …Instead of helping us strengthen our personal brand and build our influence, they do just the opposite When you are presenting, or even just sitting in a meeting, you want to built trust and authenticity. People won’t accept your recommendation

EdTech Conversations, October 2021

If you have gotten coffee from the Faculty summit in October, you may have seen me stationed nearby with a sign hosting walk-up consultation for anything edtech. I’ve enjoyed our conversations and learning I’m thought of as the “Zoom Whisperer”, haha. A big thanks to the following folks: Erez Levy, Yuval Salant, Nicola Persico, Sugata

Using MS Teams for Class Discussions (and/or Teaching)

Microsoft Teams & Canvas The Microsoft Teams integration with Canvas (also called Class Teams or Microsoft Teams classes) is available in all Canvas courses and allows instructors to create a team to chat and collaborate with their students – during and in-between classes. Students can engage real-time with others in the class (in-person or remote)

Zoom Update 5.8.0 – Poll access for alternative hosts 

The latest version of Zoom is 5.8.0 – view instructions to update your Zoom client. There is one notable update introduced in Zoom which you may want to take advantage of this quarter. Poll access for alternative hosts  If meeting hosts add alternative hosts to their meeting, they can allow alternative hosts to add or

Hypothesis Info Sessions

Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that enables students to collaboratively comment on or annotate online texts, such as webpages, online PDFs, digital articles, or even specific course files in Canvas. Hypothesis has scheduled three info sessions for Northwestern faculty and staff – 2 intros, and 1 for advanced users. Mark your calendars to join

Getting Ready to Teach: Fall 2021 Edition

Use the checklist below as a guide to help you get ready. For technical questions, email kis@kellogg.northwestern.edu; for teaching support questions, email teachingsupport@kellogg.northwestern.edu. In-Person View pictures of your classroom. Taking attendance? Ask your course specialist to setup up aPlus+ Attendance, a student self check-in app integrated with Canvas. Recording class? Make sure your course specialist has made the

The Next Normal: Remote Office Hours

(article originally appeared in Northwestern’s Canvas Minute newsletter on 8/12/2021) Dr. Roberts hears the familiar chime—a student has just entered the Zoom waiting room. As she sends them a quick message to say she’ll be with them soon, she considers how efficient this process has become. She’s no longer tethered to her office for long

Updated Interface for Canvas Assignments

A heads up from the NU Canvas team that Friday, July 16, the page formatting for Canvas assignments will display an updated interface. This change is primarily cosmetic and will be visible to students in all course sites. The workflow for instructors building and evaluating assignments remains unchanged. A Canvas announcement for students will be

Zoom Update 5.7.0: Share Screen to all Breakout Rooms & more

The latest version of Zoom is version 5.7.0 – view instructions to update your Zoom client. Following are 3 notable updates introduced in Zoom which you may want to take advantage of this quarter. Share screen to all Breakout Rooms – Windows, macOS, Linux When sharing screen in the main session, the host or co-host can