Online Teaching Resources

The Interactive Instruction and Innovative Delivery Core has developed a document to provide recommendations to help adapt common assessment strategies to a remote delivery environment. View Adapting Assessments for Online Teaching. (Baylor login required)

This is an exam creation and remote proctoring tool used for secure online assessment. This is currently available to faculty in the School of Medicine and School of Health Professions.

Respondus Lockdown Browser
This is a proctoring tool for non-ExamSoft exams.

Respondus 4.0
This is an assessment tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard.

Respondus is a Blackboard add-on. Information about these tools can be found on the Blackboard page on the Faculty-Ed-Tech website.

Baylor College of Medicine has expanded its paid licenses and increased webinar participants. To help you leverage all this tool has to offer, we have best practice guides, tips and suggestions for student engagement and guidance for avoiding challenges when using Zoom.

Baylor faculty seeking assistance with course design and instructional strategies, please contact us for resources at interactiveinstruction@bcm.edu.

Aquifer is a clinical teaching and learning platform with interactive clinical learning to promote individualized and engaged learning, clinical reasoning and in-depth exploration of content. This full version of this tool is currently available to faculty in the School of Medicine. Faculty in the School of Health Professions have access to the basic version.

Please direct questions about this tool to Ken Melton at melton@bcm.edu.

VoiceThread is a learning tool for enhancing student engagement and online presence in an asynchronous way. Like a discussion board, with VoiceThread instructors and/or students can create, share and comment on images, PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents and PDFs using a microphone, webcam, text, phone and audio-file upload.

Plans for VoiceThread Use at Baylor

This is an external tool that is integrated easily into BlackBoard. Baylor College of Medicine is currently engaged in the technical set-up, testing and training phase to prepare this tool for use at the College. We will be piloting it with two Baylor programs.

In the meantime, faculty are encouraged to learn more about this tool and begin to plan for how you will integrate it into your online teaching. To help you do this, view:

VoiceThread Demo for Baylor College of Medicine VoiceThread HomePage Delmas, P. M. (2017). 
Using VoiceThread to create community in online learning. TechTrends, 61(6), 595-602. Dunham, S. (2015). Developing lifelong learning skills through self-directed learning in the gross anatomy laboratory using narrated digital slideshows. The FASEB Journal, 29(1_supplement), 551-8.  Fox, O. H. (2017). 
Using VoiceThread to promote collaborative learning in on-line clinical nurse leader courses. Journal of Professional Nursing, 33(1), 20-26. 
Hacker, P. (2010). Using VoiceThread to give students a voice outside the classroom. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/using-voicethread-to-give-students-a-voice-outside-the-classroom/26367 
Pacansky-Brock, M. (2013). How to humanize your online class with VoiceThread, 22–47.Retrieved from http://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/333499/1/how-to-humanizeyour-online-class-with-voicethread 
Yu-Hui, C., & Yu-Chang, H. (2013). Collaborative learning using VoiceThread in an online graduate course. Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 5(3), 298. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/docview/1955098489?accountid=7107

Additional information about VoiceThread is available on the Blackboard page of the Faculty Ed-Tech website.

If you are new to Zoom or have limited knowledge of this tool, visit the Audio/Videoconferencing Support website for information on getting started, helpful videos and frequently asked questions.

These resources are available in BCM Box. Baylor login required.

Communication 

• Tips for Faculty Teaching using Zoom
   

Teaching Online with Zoom 

• Teaching with Zoom Online Guide– Includes information on breakout groups and using Whiteboard Space and Polling
• Best Practices when Pre-Recording Lectures in Zoom -- Asynchronous Instruction 
• Best Practices when Conducting Live Lectures in Zoom -- Synchronous Instruction 
• Best Practices when Holding Virtual Office Hours in Zoom

Breakout rooms let you split your learners off into separate sessions to collaborate on group work or meet in small groups. View this video to learn how to use Breakout Rooms.

There have been some issues with students pre-assigned to breakout rooms using the template provided by Zoom remaining in the main session when the breakout room were opened. If this happens, sign out of Zoom and sign in again using the Single Sign On (SSO) option. View a video on how to do this.

As the use of Zoom has dramatically increased in recent weeks, so have incidents of Zoom Bombing. Zoom-bombing is the term for when individuals "gate-crash" Zoom meetings. These uninvited guests share their screens to bombard real attendees with disturbing pornographic and/or violent imagery. Most of these are perpetrated via publicly available Zoom links; however, not all depending on your settings. Here are ways to protect you and your guests from falling victim.

Avoid using your personal meeting ID
A personal ID, such as a phone number,  is used to easily remember a meeting identifier. If you repeatedly use the same meeting identifier as is generally done with personal meeting IDs, the chances that this identifier will become known by outsiders who may have bad intentions are increased. Instead generate a random meeting ID for each meeting. Learn how.

Manage screen sharing
You can control who can share their screen during your Zoom sessions using the meeting controls at the bottom of the screen. When you click on the green “Share Screen” icon at the bottom of your screen, select “Advanced Sharing Options”. From there you can restrict sharing to only one participant at a time. You may also limit screen sharing to just the host. Learn more about setting meeting controls. 

Manage participants
To make it harder for bad actors to access your meeting, learn about Zoom options for managing participants.  You may also want to:

Limit large meetings to only allow users who authenticate with their BCM ECA to participate. 
For smaller meetings, consider using a Waiting Room. This is a virtual staging area for participants to wait until the host is ready to begin the meeting. Learn how to use waiting rooms and how to customize the message participants see while waiting.