By no means do you need to do all of these, but the following tools can offer you an easier time transitioning. Also remember, if this website doesn’t answer your questions, Jacob Mills (jmills@hsu.edu) and George Finkle (finkleg@hsu.edu) are great resources for helping out with those details. 

Canvas – This is our go-to Learning Management System. For help with this, our Canvas Tools link can help, including our own whiteboard technology with BigBlueButton, and preventing plagiarism with TurnItIn.

Google Suites – Although we are not subscribed to their full LMS suite, the free features of google are astounding.
   – Shared meeting times through Google Hangouts is one way to get your students talking.
   – Gene Williams from the STEM center brought our attention to this cool trick with google docs so you can easily get students turning in worksheets and more.
   – Dr. Amox also made a video to show how to have students choose appointment times through the Calendar. 

Techsmith Relay – Want to make videos for your students? You can either share controlled, lightly edited screen videos or webcam videos or both simultaneously. Here is a beginner guide, and our Techsmith website.

Tiny Scanner – This app for both iPhone and Android allows your students to create decent pdf files of paper assignments with only their phone. The free version won’t give them a lot of storage, but they can email each one to themselves for virtually unlimited storage!

The Starting Line – a link provided by HSU to help you think about what your students need in an online environment

Humanities through Computers – Trying to teach a humanities course? Inside Higher Ed has this article to guide you.

How to Quickly (and Safely) Move a Lab Course Online – The Chronicle of Higher Education – This person has strategies for getting your physical labs moved into the homes of your students.

Cengage tools – If your course uses Cengage publishing, they’re here to help you step up your online game for free.

The Information Technology Center at HSU may have other links that will continue to be updated.

There are many student who experience difficulty obtaining materials and internet access. Our country’s community has really banded together to help out during this time. Here are some of the resources being provided:

Check if your student’s Internet Service Provider is giving them a leg up in their plan. Find information by clicking here.

Another tool is to poll your students by a google form, which is very low-bandwidth and gives them time to respond, to find out what the least access is among your students. That way you can tailor your instruction to the lowest access.