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

Creating a recurring meeting 

Basic features

Setting up physical and online classrooms

• • 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
  • Showing movies/ film clips
  • Recording classes

Office hours (waiting room feature)

Sakai

ITS Teaching and Learning Support Blog

Set-up and roster/enrollment 

Lessons tool 

Warpwire 

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.