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3.2 Use the right tool for the right purpose: Forums, Zoom, echo, teams, oneNote

• Use learning Forum(s) for structured, asynchronous discussion activities

  • establish teacher presence by contributing and commenting regularly

• Use Zoom for synchronous meetings, lectures, workshops and one-to-one sessions

• Record Zoom lectures and seminars into the cloud so that students can catch up or watch again to clarify their understanding.

  • Into the cloud means it gets automatically added to Echo (Zoom cannot be used as a long-term storage solution)

  • Link to the recording from Moodle via the correct Echo360 activity tool. We have a collection of quick how to guides for Echo360 use.

  • Do not link to the URL you see in your echo account, it is not accessible to students.

• Consider using Hot questions: this Moodle feature allows students to flag up,what they haven’t understood in lectures or classes, or what they want a revision class to focus on, or give answers to questions from the teacher.

6.4 Using Turnitin

We strongly recommend that you allow students to use Turnitin to check their citing and referencing. Turnitin works best if it is used as a learning tool to check for omissions or mistakes - much like a spell checker. This will help students form an understanding of how to reference properly, and the importance of academic integrity.

If used only for administrative purposes (and without allowing students at the very least to see the reports when they are generated), TurnItIn is merely a tool to catch students out, and such use implicitly presumes guilt as opposed to affording the benefit of doubt.

We have a suite of guidance on Turnitin on this Wiki.

7.5 Behaviour

Netiquette

We have produced a guide on netiquette, a portmanteau word (net etiquette) that describes common courtesy rules for engaging with others online. You are welcome to copy and/or download it and add to your course/ add to your general book. In sum, be online what you are face to face:

• Be nice.

Zoom behaviour

Do not force your students to have their camera on - Zoom fatigue is a real thing and not everybody is comfortable showing themselves, their families or their home to others. We have practical guides on how to use Zoom in combination with Moodle.

You may be interested in https://blog.zoom.us/host-more-accessible-meetings/ .

• Smile

• Don’t force cameras - though you can ask politely, especially in breakout rooms

• Remind students/ participants that (if) you are recording sessions and why.

• Consider occasionally asking for everybody to swich off the camera, perhaps for a short break, or a quiet reflection phase.

Language

• Avoid punitive language (eg talk about academic integrity, rather than plagiarism; limit uses of “you must” in instructions, consider replacing with “please do”);

• Remember your - very international LSE - audience, clarity is paramount!

• Give constructive and critical feedback, especially in Forums.

More on writing tone for online audiences: Chapter 3 of Humanizing Online Learning and Teaching, and Chapter 11 of Humanizing Online Learning and Teaching. (2016)