Hybrid Lectures

Schedule hybrid meetings directly in Canvas

• Canvas: Host a Zoom Meeting within Canvas
• In short:
  • In Canvas Settings, enable "Zoom" to appear in the left Canvas course Navigation
  • Click "Zoom" in the Canvas course Navigation and schedule a meeting (only "Teacher" role can create meetings in Canvas)
    • Enable: “Recurring meeting”
    • Select:  "No fixed time" for the Recurrence meeting dropdown.  
      • This allows you to use one link for all your zoom meetings for all your sections for the whole semester and DOES NOT clutter the student's Canvas calendar with the Zoom meetings (this also creates issues when the Canvas course got later imported into a future semester course).
  • Recording of Zoom meeting: If you are planning to record the hybrid lecture/meeting, select "Cloud Recording." You have go back to the "Zoom" in the Canvas course Navigation to publish the recording: Click the Publish button (Cloud Recording Tab) to make the recording available for students in the course.
     

Schedule hybrid meetings in Zoom

• In zoom.umn.edu (Zoom browser application) create a recurring Zoom meeting.
• Share the Zoom link in your Canvas course.
   

Schedule hybrid meetings in Google Calendar

• Create a Google Calendar event.
• Add "Video Conference Meeting" and select Zoom
  • This creates a Zoom link that is used for all occurrences of the calendar event.

Tip: You can enalbe to automatically have to Zoom recording transfer to Mediaspace/Kalture. Zoom: Cloud Recording to Kaltura Integration. Be aware that this will apply to all future Zoom recordings if not disabled.  

Classroom Technology Guide

Basic steps:

• Plugin: (Red) USB connector into a computer (this will connect the classroom "webcam/microphone"
• Open/Start: Zoom meeting and select the microphone option that corresponds to the room mic.
  • Note: Every classroom has different technology. It is important that you “Test Speaker & Microphone…” in the Zoom app (click the Audio dropdown button to start the test)!! 

If you are in a classroom without a microphone and/or a webcam (no (red) USB connector at the podium), you should use a wireless USB microphone/webcam for better audio.  Talk to Silke Moeller ([email protected]) about checkout devices for your classroom. 

• Don’t forget to greet and address the remote students.
  • Ask a TA or a student in the front row to monitor the Zoom chat for you for questions.
  • Also, ask in the chat right away if people at home can hear OK.
• Using Zoom Breakout Rooms for online discussions
  • Zoom: Manage Breakout Rooms

• At the end of the lecture, stop recording, and you will get an email link to it.
• Post the link to the zoom recording on your Canvas course page.  
  • If you like to keep the recording for longer than 180 days, upload the recording to Mediaspace.umn.edu.
• If you prefer to share the recording only with students who were not able to attend the class, create a non-graded assignment in Canvas and only assign students who missed the class.
• TIPS:
  • You can make the lecture recordings available for all students for reviewing at the end of a unit or before exams.
  • Provide correct captions when sharing recordings
     

Additional resource from 2020: HyFlex Teaching at the University of Minnesota.