Items for Action
- By April 3, 2020, instructors must submit a Course Plan for Instructional Continuity for each of their courses
General Guides, Contacts & FAQs
- The Faculty Innovation Center has several resources for faculty at https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/instructional-continuity
- FAQs for faculty updated regularly here: https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/instructional-continuity-instruction-faqs
- The College's Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science (TIDES) has assembled resources and a list of contact people in CNS who can support faculty teaching online: https://cns.utexas.edu/tides/faculty/remote-teaching
- TIDES' checklist for faculty teaching online courses: https://cns.utexas.edu/images/CNS/TIDES/Remote_Teaching/Faculty_Tips_CheckList.pdf
- Find FIC resources for grad student instructors and TAs: https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/instructional-continuity-graduate-students
- Other colleges also are maintaining helpful guides, such as this frequently updated Box document created by the Moody College has new information highlighted regularly up top: https://utexas.app.box.com/s/n54qoku5f2p9acpmrhqid33wukz8pcit
Information to Share with Students
- Students can find resources both at the University's COVID-19 page and at the College's FAQ page for Texas Science students: https://cns.utexas.edu/undergraduate-education/covid-19-student-faq
- Students have until May 29 to determine if they wish to take classes Pass/Fail (for undergraduates) or Credit/No Credit (for graduate students).
- In the "Beyond Academics" section of the Provost's FAQs for Faculty are more ways faculty can connect students in problematic situations to UT resources: https://covid.provost.utexas.edu/
Zoom and Panopto
- Access Zoom at UT: https://utexas.zoom.us
- Read "How to Use Zoom to Hold Class and/or Office Hours" by MBS Professor Janice Fischer: https://cns.utexas.edu/images/CNS/TIDES/Remote_Teaching/Zoom_Manual_JAFv3.pdf
- View short, recorded webinars from Zoom support: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360029527911
- Learn about teaching synchronously with Zoom: https://zoom.us/docs/doc/Tips%20and%20Tricks%20for%20Teachers%20Educating%20on%20Zoom.pdf
- See a Panopto how-to from the iSchool: https://itlab.ischool.utexas.edu/panopto-guide/
- Provide a first-run Zoom checklist for students: https://utexas.box.com/s/099vw2kwvuilniiyyafk3goaybfiq9ik
