Remote Teaching Checklist
Know Your Technical Support Options
- How to get Zoom Support
- Consult 麻豆传媒映画出品 State's Zoom pages for information
- Consult for other information
- Submit a for technial problems
- Identify friends, family, peers who can provide technical support and guidance
Initial Setup Tasks
- Check your Zoom or other account
- Acquire a 鈥減ro鈥 Zoom license (free for instructional use)
- Ensure your software is up-to-date
- Open your Zoom app, look for 鈥渃heck for updates鈥 in the dropdown menu, apply any necessary
updates
- Prepare your broadcast space
- Set up in a place you can control distractions such as unwanted noise
- Ensure you have adequate lighting with your primary light source in front of you,
not behind you
- Set your camera at eye level or slightly above
- Locate a microphone and test with your system
- AirPods, iPhone earbuds, etc. work well with many systems
- Purchase a microphone if necessary ($100 is a good price point)
- Ensure durable connectivity
- If possible, use an ethernet cable rather than WiFi for your connection
- Consider security
- If HIPAA compliance is necessary, investigate your web conferencing interface carefully
- Zoom offers a HIPAA compliant version, but the 鈥渞egular鈥 Zoom Pro license is not HIPAA
compliant
- If using Zoom, plan to ensure Zoom security
- Set up a waiting room for your Zoom class
- Consider only allowing 鈥渧erified users鈥 in your session
- Restrict video and screen sharing in the defaults
- Get Comfortable
- Test new systems with a peer until you feel comfortable
One Hour/Thirty Minutes Before Each Class
- Maximize your internet strength and consistency
- Shut off any apps/systems that use an internet connection for the duration of your
time online. This includes other people in your household using streaming services
like Netflix and internet gaming.
- If connectivity seems to be a problem, try running a speed test at .
- Speeds necessary to run your call vary by system, but can be used as guidelines
- Test the system
- Login to the web conferencing program you are using (eg: Zoom, Collaborate, etc.)
- Test microphone and camera, including uncovering your camera
- Test the Share Screen function to ensure your PowerPoint, software, or other materials
share properly
- Prepare to teach
- Locate and communicate your supporting digital materials
- Open up any PowerPoints you intend to use
- Locate all other digital documents you plan to reference/hand out
- Communicate with students about what materials they should have on hand, and provide
them if necessary
- Plan for student interactivity and engagement in your class session with at least
one interactive element per class session. EG:
- Load in any polls you plan to use
- Plan how you will use breakout rooms for smaller-group discussions
- Plan how you will choose students to call on during the session (eg: randomly? By
alphabet? Pre-assigned?)
- Identify 鈥淐hat Questions鈥 you can post in chat for session-long comment.
- Plan to use an icebreaker, even with established classes.
- Check your dress and visage
- No heavily patterned clotings such as shirts, ties, scarfs
- Remove eyeglasses if not necessary to see during the session
- Make any other necessary adjustments
- Turn off distractions
- Shut your door
- Mute your phone
- Turn off computer apps like Outlook and Messages/texting
- Tell others in your space that you should not be disturbed
During Class
- Set expectations and make recommendations
- Encourage, but do not require, students to use their video/camera
- Encourage students to use 鈥済allery view鈥 interface
- Ask students to mute unless they are speaking
- Explain to students how you would like questions to be asked (eg: unmute and interrupt
you, put them in the chat, save them for the end)
- Communicate any other expectations and recommendations
- Presentation Skills
- Look at the camera, not at the screen when possible
- Do not self-denigrate when you have technical problems or are unsure how to do something
technical in your class.
- Everyone experiences these sorts of problems, so model acceptance and openness to
learning new skills
- Only share your screen when necessary for context/content. Otherwise, rely on your
video feed of your face
- Tip: humans are naturally drawn to and mimic faces, not PowerPoint slides
- Use student/attendee names when possible
- Take advantage of the medium by sharing web addresses, files, etc. during your presentation
- Classroom management
- Use breakout rooms regularly for small group discussions
- Remember to use at least one of your planned interactivity choices
- Focus on student understanding, not content delivery, in your live class time
After Class
- Make notes about your experience immediately
- What worked in your session and why?
- What failed in your session and why?
- Capture ideas about improvements for next time right away
- Get student feedback at least twice
- Request feedback at the end of early class sessions to make 鈥渙n the fly鈥 changes
- Request feed back again at the end of your time with a cohort to make structural changes
- Three-four times a year, reach out to the Office of Instructional Resources to ensure
your training is up to date.