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03/17/2020
How-To: Record and Share Videos using ScreenPal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic)
ScreenPal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic) is an intuitive, easy-to-use video recording tool that helps faculty connect and engage students in meaningful ways globally. With ScreenPal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic), you can deliver lectures, create tutorials, record your screen (screencasting), and provide personalized small group or 1:1 instruction and feedback.
03/17/2020
How-To: Create Graded Assessments in Canvas
Canvas offers a variety of methods for creating graded course activities. Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussion Boards each offer unique, and pedagogically different, opportunities for engaging students with your course content. This guide will explain each type of Canvas graded course activity further, as well as provide the step-by-step instructions for creating them within your Canvas course site.
03/16/2020
Senate News, March 16, 2020
An additional meeting of Senate was held on March 16, 2020 via WebEx. Provost Osborne provided a COVID-19 update. Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, Leighton Peterson, and John-Charles Duffy provided information to senators, and answered questions, about the proposed revisions to the Global Miami Plan requirements. Senators engaged in a discussion with Stacey Lowery Bretz regarding the Academic Program Evaluation Improvement Process.
03/16/2020
3-16-20 Message to the Community
Topics included; 1) No instructional activities in person allowed; limit non-essential in-person activities, 2) Hiring freeze, 3) Mid Term grades, 4) Pass/Fail, 5) Spring Break goals for faculty (Take a breath and find time to think through the rest of the semester, Update syllabus to reflect new reality and how you will meet learning objectives through remainder of semester, Prepare for what-if scenarios like: "What if the US requires everyone to stay in-home for two weeks" like Italy and other countries have, Think through final exams/papers/products Engage in self care, Breathe) and 6) Tools for extended remote work
03/16/2020
Senior John Fink describes his experiences as one of six selected worldwide for geology research experience in Japan
John Fink is preparing to graduate from Miami this spring. Last summer, he was granted the opportunity to participate in the International Internship Program through the Institute For Planetary Materials, Okayama University in Misasa, Japan.
03/16/2020
Webex Meetings: Meet your team where they are
As the University moves to remote learning and work, IT Services wants to make sure the campus has the right tools at its disposal to create as smooth a transition as possible.
03/16/2020
How-To: Host, Record, and Share Lectures in Webex
Webex makes it easy to collaborate with others. You can also use WebEx to record your Webex sessions so students can view them at a later date. This virtual meeting solution is available to all faculty, staff, and students on all Miami campuses. All Miami faculty and staff can have accounts and create meetings.
03/16/2020
How-To: Use Google Meet for Video Conferencing with Students
Google Meet is an online meeting tool for video conferences that uses the camera and microphone on your computer or mobile device to connect you to a virtual conversation.
03/15/2020
3-15-20 Message to Community
Topics included: 1) Do everything possible to help facilitate students working remotely, 2) Make sure we are communicating with students about clinical placements, internships, licensure requirements - even when the future isn't entirely certain, 3) Limit nonessential face-t0-face meetings,4) Limit nonessential searches within Academic Affairs, 5) Research facilities and university remain open
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