You need to decide if you are going to deliver your class sessions through meeting together (web-conferencing), presenting lecture/content via video recordings, or a combination of both. Please remember, any required meetings must occur at your regularly scheduled class time. As is the case in normal times, you can of course expect students to study and prepare assignments on their own time.
Web-conferencing
Use the table below to select an online meeting platform. Training resources are available on the following pages: Skype for Business (SFB), Zoom, or Teams. All options allow you to schedule a meeting, to text-chat with individuals during meeting, share your screen, use a whiteboard, access the meeting through a mobile or web platform, and record the meeting. None of these tools directly integrate with Moodle.
| Features | SFB | Zoom | Teams |
| Participant Limit | 250 | 100 | 250 |
| Participating by Phone | Yes$ | No& | Yes$ |
| Record Meeting (PC) | Yes* | Yes* | Yes+ |
| Record Meeting (Mac) | No% | Yes* | Yes+ |
| Closed Captioning | Yes* | Yes* | Yes+ |
| Breakout Rooms (allowing small group discussions) | No | Yes | No |
| Does not require creating an account | Yes | No | Yes |
If you select Zoom, create a Basic account using your potsdam.edu email. Doing so will allow you to schedule meetings with up to 100 participants. The normal 40 minute meeting limit has been temporarily lifted by Zoom for potsdam.edu accounts.
*Recording saved to your computer and must be manually uploaded to Relay for sharing. Closed captioning can be generated in Relay.
+Recording automatically saved and shared directly to Teams. Close captioning can be generated in Teams.
%Recording can be done using Relay.
&Due to increased demand, dial-in by phone audio conferencing my not be available for freeBasic accounts.
$A recent upgrade to our license now provides dial-in access. Please be aware that a PIN is not necessary to dial-in currently (disregard notices).
Video Recording
Please remember that according to ADA guidelines, all videos must have closed captioning. Relay is available to all students, faculty, and staff and seamlessly integrates with Moodle, allowing you to easily create and share videos securely. Training to use Relay is available online. Relay functions include:
- Lecture capture – To make lectures available to students for on-demand viewing
- Screen capture – To narrate over websites, slides, etc. to create tutorials and presentations
- Closed captioning – To automatically generate closed captioning
- Assignments – Allowing students to demonstrate learning through video projects
- Feedback – Using screen capture to provide feedback on papers, assignments, etc.
- Conversations – Allowing users to provided time-stamped commenting within a video
- Quizzes – To imbedded quiz questions within a video