COVID-19: Resources for Faculty

Dr. Bethany Simunich, Director of Research and Innovation for Quality Matters, explains how the Higher Ed. and K-12 checklists can assist instructors as a job aid when moving to remote instruction in an emergency. Taking the student perspective is the cornerstone of creating a learning environment to support student success when changing modalities during a crisis.

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This toolkit was developed quickly to assist campuses across the country who are moving online virtually overnight in response to COVID-19. We hope this toolkit will help ensure that this rapid change to an online format does not result in lack of access for students with disabilities.

Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners, regardless of ability level.

Google Voice provides a U.S. telephone number, chosen by the user from available numbers in selected area codes, free of charge to each user account. Calls to this number are forwarded to telephone numbers that each user must configure in the account web portal. Multiple destinations may be specified that ring simultaneously for incoming calls. Service establishment requires a United States telephone number. A user may answer and receive calls on any of the ringing phones as configured in the web portal. During a received call the user may switch between the configured telephones.

Sign-up is free. You are allowed up to 3 padlets on your wall.

You can download this to your computer/laptop. It is free and will record up to 15 minutes.

Computer software: Free six-month subscriptions

Cisco is offering a free version of its Webex videoconferencing software right now. What is nice about Webex is that its super thin and minimal software will be downloaded on to your system. Once setup, it will provide you with a personal room for your use.

Microphone info

Overview of how to use Zoom for online teaching.

Here is a video showing how to go live on Youtube and capture the recording than send out links to your students. I throw in a few tips on video equipment as well. -R. Rebelo

A full list of instructional YouTube videos produced by Blackboard, Inc. for instructors.

Multiple videos on how to use different parts of eLearning/Blackboard

Desmos uses devices to connect students, not to isolate them. Students see their classmates' thinking. They ask each other questions and create challenges for each other.

In an effort to support students as they transition to distance education, F.A. Davis has granted students free access to open resources on FADavis.com. This will allow students who don’t have Access Codes to make use of all relevant resources by following the steps below. Please feel free to share this information with your students:

Log in to FADavis.com (or create an account using your school email address)
Navigate to a specific book or product listed on the Occupational Therapy Assistant page
Click on the book or product cover or title.
Click RESOURCES and select the “Open Access” tab to view all available resources
If there is no “Open Access” tab, that means there are no additional resources for this particular book/product.

A single interface where faculty can easily discover and access Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as find and request access to unrestricted, DRM-free e-books from top academic publishers.

JSTORcan be used through the Boston Public Library. Get an eCard. Have students get an eCard..takes less than 2 minutes to sign up and then they can access this database.

Free access to McGraw Hill Textbooks

To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.

Visuals for science courses.

Brings you to a list of FAQ's. How to access their Bookshelf for students, etc.

VitalSource (and Redshelf) have joined leading publishers to help ensure students can continue to access quality digital course materials due to a recent and rapid campus shift to distance-learning.