Online Teaching Tips and Tricks

1. “Online education presentation” by Dr. Samer Adeeb on May 27th.
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2. Helpful hints from Dr. Elena Zabalotnii teaching CivE 381 online during Summer 2020. CivE 381 – Dr. Elena Zabalotnii
3. Helpful hints from Dr. Hooman Askari-Nasab teaching MinE 325 online during Summer 2020.MinE 325 – Dr. Askari-Nasab
4. List of videos embedded in the frequently used ASTM test Methods (Access available from Jun 1st, 2020, till Sep 15th, 2021) and a link to those videos. These might be helpful for your courses. download or visit the link.
5. Copyright: The university of Alberta copyright office has some useful information about including “copyrighted” material in teaching. There is also recent case dealing with copyright laws in Canada.
6. University Affairs just published a comprehensive list of freely available lab simulations. I urge you to browse through the different links and identify some material that can be useful to your labs.
7. Here is a new trick that I learnt thanks to Dr. Yuxiang Chen. You can now record your face along with slide narration with powerpoint if you use the newest version (Office 365). Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8u_QDZLqMs
8. Recording. Here is a new that I learnt thanks to Dr. Yashar Pourrahimian. You can now record your screen in windows 10 by pressing windows button +G. Here is a video: https://youtu.be/TOxzIeIUKjY
9. If you are an avid microsoft user, Dr. Selma Guigard is recommending reading the following link about microsoft products for remote delivery: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/education/remote-learning/higher-education-faculty
10. Faculty guidelines were provided in the following email and file.
11. Remote proctoring
12. Open-access guide to online teaching
13. Fall delievery
• For courses requiring remote computer lab access, please read the attached notification from IST and fill the IST online form as soon as possible (Deadline provided by IST is July 1st):Fall 2020 – Remote Access to Lab Software form
• The faculty has received funding to hire 16 undergraduate co-op students this summer to help with the conversion to online across the faculty. Dr. Samer Adeeb and Dr. Evan Davies will be coordinating the students activities related to our department. Please email Samer if you need access to those students.
14. Easy to Use Remote Teaching Website for Instructors by CTL
15. Recent survey of students’ experiences during the pandemic
16. Below are useful links regarding digital education shared by representatives from RWTH Aachen and Tsinghua University
• Reforming Intreo Physics Labs focus on Innovation, Creativity and Scientific skills prepared by Dr. Mates Selen, U Illinois, who won the national professor of the year award for the advancement of teaching.
• PET Intractive Simulations is a free interactive simulation app creating interactive science and math simulation which is developed based on extensive education research by Nobel Laureate Dr. Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado Boulder.
• PhyPhox is an App developed by a team of experts from RWTH Aachen University which turns your smart phone to a mobile lab.
• PocketLab Voyager is a wireless sensor and app which can be used to perform various science, engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, and programming.
• The link shows examples of digitalization performed at RWTH Aachen University.
17. A helpful guideline provided by Dr. Pourrahimian on how to help the students during the lab time using the Zoom Remote control capability.
18. The faculty of engineering online teaching resources hub can be found on eclass at this link.
19. A recently published article on remote teaching during Covid 19 contains very useful tips that can fit a multitude of courses. You can find the article here.
20. Inorder to record your live lectures and make it available to your students, you can use a statement similar to the attached after modifying it to fit your class. Please have this statement available in the syllabus system and on your eclass.
21. Instructions on how to use zoom for live sessions can be found in the attached document prepared by Dr. Mehdi Ebadi.
22. A useful guideline for engineering instructors on how to shift their courses to remote delivery.
23. A useful program to render equations in excel introduced by Dr. Zaher Hashisho. It also makes it easier to grade assignments submitted in excel files.
24. The results of surveying the students regarding the remote delivery format for the spring/ summer semester can be found in this document prepared by Adrian Wattamaniuk, Engineering Student’s Society.