Language Exchange Instructor Resources
Personnel and Support
Program manager: Michelle Leroux Gravatt – gravatt@email.unc.edu
Curricular and activity support & development; classroom training: Matt Osment – matto@email.unc.edu
Classroom Technical Problems: David Joyner – davidjoyner@unc.edu
Classroom Technical Support (ITS, “Red phone” classrooms) – hotline@unc.edu
Running the Course
Using Zoom
Setting up physical and online classrooms
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- Seating: f2f student expectations
- Using the cameras’ remote set-ups/room focus
- Screen sharing
- Hand raising
- White board
- Break-out rooms
- Pair and group activities set-up
- F2f and remote options
- Pair and group activities set-up
- Showing movies/ film clips
- Recording classes
Office hours (waiting room feature)
Sakai
ITS Teaching and Learning Support Blog
Showing videos in class
- Zoom video restrictions
- DVDs: Zoom does not allow DVD video or audio to be streamed over a session
- Netflix, YouTube : Videos maybe shared from systems such as Netflix to participants; however, quality may be degraded
- Warpwire: Videos housed in warpwire may by streamed to participants in a zoom session; however, quality may be degraded. NOTE: students may watch Warpwire videos through their Sakai course, AND instructors have viewing statistics
- Contact institutional libraries for course reserves
Student feedback survey (early / midterm)
Midterm student feedback surveys are a useful tool to empower students and receive valuable information within a workable timeframe. Please contact Matt Osment, matto@email.unc.edu, for more information.
Exams
Exams should proceed as normal for the Language Exchange Program. Should special situations arise, please contact the program manager.