LITS Faculty Guide: 2020-2021 FIT

To facilitate asynchronous class discussion, adopt:

• Moodle Forums for discussion questions
• Google Docs (upload native Google doc, pdf, or Word document) to group annotate and edit a document
• hypothes.is to annotate web content

To engage in real-time class activity, consider:

• Zoom session with your full class, organized via Moodle
• Zoom breakout rooms for small groups (YouTube video)
• Moodle Chat or Google Hangouts - text-based engagement is a great alternative when access to broadband is limited.

Prerecording lectures allow students to access the material according to their own schedule, and can add additional tools to enhance student learning, like transcripts, subtitles, and searching for and repeating portions of the lecture.

Recommended:

• Mount Holyoke now has a campus license to the video platform Kaltura. Kaltura offers the most robust set of tools for creating video material for your courses. 

Alternative Options:

• Pre-record a lecture with Zoom:
  • Set up a "meeting" for yourself and record it.
  • Use screen-sharing to showcase slides or digital resources.

Asynchronous options:

• Setting up Assignments in Moodle
• Grading in Moodle
  • Providing audio and video feedback
• Comments and track changes in Google Docs or Microsoft Word
• Grading and annotation tools (limited support available) with tools like gradescope and hy.pothesis.

Synchronous options:

• 1-on-1 Zoom sessions
• 1-on-1 Google Hangouts

See the Assessment page on this guide for more.