Topic: Communicate & collaborate

Clearly communicate a session schedule in Canvas

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These templates are structured for varying levels of detail. You could choose to include a subject schedule, giving a high-level outline for the entire session, a detailed weekly overview with schedule, or an overview of a module covering several weeks. These templates are specific to your faculty. If you do...

LX Accessible Content Practices

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Some students might experience barriers when accessing content in your subject. Adding content to your subject sites and learning materials in a certain way can help remove these barriers and create an inclusive and accessible learning environment. We asked our Digital Accessibility Ambassadors – UTS students with lived experience of...

Language: accessible practice

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Ensuring that you use clear language in your subject is important for all students – and critical for some who might find it harder to fill in the gaps. We asked our Digital Accessibility Ambassadors – UTS students with lived experience of disability about why using clear language in your...

Use breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams

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You must be the meeting organiser and use the Teams desktop client to access the breakout rooms option, and to manage breakout rooms and participants. If you want to use breakout rooms, you will either need to start a Meet Now meeting in a standard channel. Calls from chat...

Use Zoom in Canvas

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Navigate to your Canvas subject site. If ‘Zoom’ is visible in the left hand subject navigation menu, proceed to the next step. If not, select ‘Settings’ from the bottom of the menu. Under the ‘Navigation’ tab, drag and drop the Zoom item from the bottom section of the menu,...

Set up Zoom for a classroom on campus

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There are limitations to using Zoom during a live classroom, as you need to be aware of what your remote participants can and can’t hear. If you have the opportunity, we strongly recommend testing out your Zoom meeting setup before running it. If something goes wrong, a majority of...

Zoom basics: access Zoom and schedule meetings

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All staff and students at UTS have automatic access to a Zoom premium account without needing to sign up. Premium access has more features than a free Zoom account, so it’s important to log in correctly to ensure you have full access to all features in UTS Zoom and...

Communicate clearly with students during a Zoom meeting

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The chat allows you to send written messages to participants during your meeting and, if you have the setting enabled, for participants to respond. You may decide to appoint a co-host to monitor the chat while you are running the meeting. Participants can also delete their own chat messages...

Zoom vs Teams: which tool is best for my online teaching?

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FEATURES ZOOM TEAMS NOTES File sharing No Yes Zoom: Screen annotation feature is also available for host and participantsTeams: Share files in a chat during the meeting. Microsoft Whiteboard available, however, tool options are limited to drawing only (i.e., suits touch screen devices the best) Screen sharing Yes Yes...

Use the Zoom app

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Once you have downloaded the Zoom app onto your computer or mobile device, you can sign in on the app using your UTS credentials. All staff and students at UTS have automatic access to a Zoom premium account without needing to sign up. Premium access has a more features...

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