Teaching this fall semester
|
Online teaching
|
Portfolio of digital tools for teaching
|
Support and training
|
Online and remote assessment
|
Capture of courses
Status: January 6th, 2021
From November 2nd, following the directives published on October 23 by the Conseil d’État vaudois and those announced by the Federal Council on October 28th, all our courses switch to full online mode, and this until further notice.
In accordance with the Federal Ordinance of 28 October, some practical work, laboratories and highly restricted sports activities that require the use of equipment on campus may be maintained. Each faculty will establish a list of this type of teaching to the Rectorate for validation.
Practical work can take place face-to-face if no remote alternative can be found and with a maximum of 30 participants.
In order to ensure the transition to full online mode for your courses, we keep all the rooms equipped for recording and live streaming at your disposal. Therefore, teachers are requested to continue to give their lessons from these rooms under the same time and material conditions as those applied since the beginning of the academic year. These courses will be broadcasted live under the same links and will be automatically exported to your respective channels, which will not bring any changes for your students.
The use of the microphones available in the classrooms remains obligatory for capturing the sound of the live and recorded sessions. Wearing a mask for the teacher is not mandatory once he or she is alone in the room and facing the camera. If an assistant is present in the room during the class, he/she must wear the mask at all times.
Teachers who wish, for a particular reason, not to use these rooms and to broadcast their course from another location will have to request permission from their faculty dean's office. Once this authorisation has been obtained, they may :
- use their ZOOM UNIL account if their student population is less than 300 (maximum number of participants within the framework of the ZOOM licence)
- use their ZOOM UNIL account and broadcast their course on ZOOM via a live broadcast on REC-UNIL if their student population is over 300. For more information on this new possibility, we invite you to consult the documentation provided here.
In either case, it will be up to the teachers to record their ZOOM session and make it available on REC-UNIL for their students, as these two actions cannot be automated. We invite you to consult the resources available online at https://wiki.unil.ch/cse/books/zoom.
For organizational reasons and in order to avoid empty lives being broadcasted, we thank the teachers who have received authorization not to use their current classroom to confirm the cancellation of their recording request by e-mail to captation@unil.ch as soon as possible. Please specify in this e-mail: the course concerned, its usual broadcast date and the room.
The recording support service is also available to support you and answer all your questions (captation@unil.ch or 021 692 63 18).
We recommend that you use all the solutions available to you via the Digital Teaching Tools Portfolio and refer to the advice given on this page in the "online teaching" section in addition to the instructions given by your faculties.
For the past months, the teachers of our institution have had to improvise quick solutions under less than ideal circumstances. No matter how ingenious the solution - and some very clever ones have emerged - many teachers will quite understandably find this process stressful. This section offers some tips we have taken out from our practice and the distance education literature.
These advices do not represent any normative practice and are not to be taken for instructions. Please refer to your faculties and schools for any possible instructions or regulatory guidelines on the implementation of distance learning.
When you switch to distance teaching, information and communication with your students are key. It is important to limit the feeling of isolation of your students by showing your presence as much as you can.
To set up your distance teaching, here are the first tips we offer:
Your courses necessarily need to be rethinked based on the number of ECTS credits allocated to them (1 ECTS counting for 25 to 30 hours of work from the student).
This video presents some recommendations to manage the workload of your students:
You can also download this recommendation sheet
The way you structure your course will be decisive for its smooth progress. This structure is the main element that will allow your students to properly follow the activities related to your course. There are several ways to structure your course and for each of them, the Moodle platform seems best suited to serve you. The organization of the platform into sections allows a very clear division of your course and of the resources and activities that you put in place for your students.
Three types of structures are most often used:
Regardless of the structure you adopt, it is important:
No doubt that the first question that came to your mind was about the possible online adaptations - whether synchronously or asynchronously - of the teaching activities initially planned face-to-face.
Here is a resource we developed to help you: Adapting your teaching strategies and students’ learning activities for emergency online teaching.
This document presents 5 main groups of teaching strategies (Daele & Berthiaume, 2010) containing most of the activities that can be offered to students to reinforce their learning:
Within this document, the adaptations are suggested as examples, are non-prescriptive and are based on the use of the tools available in the “Portfolio of digital tools for teaching” at the University of Lausanne.
As you will see, every teaching strategy described in this document has pros and cons. It is strongly recommended to vary and use several strategies. It will offer students the most opportunities that best meet their own learning strategies.
One of the biggest challenges you face is getting your teaching content online. On this point, it is important to part the content you can offer to your students via existing articles and supports (online videos, sites, etc.) from the content you will have to produce on your own.
List of possible media:
First of all, it is important to resist the temptation to reproduce all your lessons in synchronous mode with tools like Webex or Zoom. If all teachers were to opt for this solution, our students would have to follow several hours of live lessons per day behind their computer. This would be very deleterious in terms of attention they could pay to their various lessons. Therefore, save some moments for interactive sessions rather than transmissive ones.
In the context of online and distance learning, the PowerPoint format makes absolutely no sense if it is not offered with verbal narration. If you wish to use your planned presentations, we recommend that you give them in video format either by recording the narration of your presentations, or by commenting them via the UbiCast studio. You will find support for both solutions and for the upload of your videos below in the “Portfolio of digital tools for teaching” section.
Finally, whatever the media you use, we recommend that you announce straight away in its title or description the time it will take your students to browse it. You can refer to:
In terms of videos and MOOCs on which you can rely, we invite you to regularly browse this padlet that we will keep up to date, and to refer to the right column of this web page for useful links.
For more complex teaching to implement remotely (e.g. practical works in laboratories, or else), we invite you to contact directly: elearning@unil.ch
If you need to use ZOOM for your teaching but your student population is higher than 300 (the limit of the number of students registered on a ZOOM session), then you are advised to broadcast your ZOOM room on a live UbiCast on REC-UNIL.
This solution can be set up once and is done in 3 steps:
You will find a short guide here
As well as a video tutorial: https://help.ubicast.tv/videos/zoom-livestream-tutorial/?speaker=dev-mediaserver%40ubicast.eu
There are few essential recommendations you should know before starting the production of your videos :
The shorter videos are, the more captivating they will be. 6 minutes is the recommended duration for a beginner audience. It can be increased from 12 to 15 minutes for a more expert audience.
As MOOCs became very influential in higher education over the past ten years, the use of video in education tended to be more and more frequent in our practices.
But beware, video in teaching is not only indicated for the transmission of content. It can be very useful to relay your gestures and to ensure your “human” presence in your Moodle spaces, and therefore to motivate your students.
So you can consider using video for:
Of course, other uses can also be imagined.
If you choose to use synchronous sessions, here are a few tips :
Be bold, take risks ! Students are usually pretty forgiving if things don’t go according to plan because they engaged in and enjoyed what you asked them to do.
The course design methodology known as Hy-Flex (hybrid and flexible teaching) allows us to teach according to four modalities that we could activate depending on the health situation and the underlying constraints that will be imposed on us to respond to it.
Here are some interesting resources for you to use in preparing your courses for the next semester: https://padlet.com/csejeffvandepoel/designer_cours_hyflex
As part of the existing partnership between COURSERA and UNIL, and in collaboration with UNIL-EPFL Continuing education, you can benefit from a free access to the almost 4000 courses offered in the COURSERA catalog, until 30 April 2021.
As a teacher, you can choose to give access to one or more courses from the online catalog (https://www.coursera.org/) that you consider useful to your students.
To do so, simply communicate the references of the selected course(s) to elearning@unil.ch with the list of e-mail addresses of your students.
As part of the implementation of its digital strategy, the board of our institution is responsible for providing and maintaining a portfolio of digital tools for teaching.
Originally composed of Moodle and its plugins, Mahara, SpeakUp and Wooclap, this portfolio has recently grown with Webex, Ubicast, Camtasia and Zoom due to the current crisis. To respond as adequately as possible to your educational needs, the portfolio may sometimes offer you two very close tools but with unique specificities. It is up to the teacher to choose the tools that best correspond to his or her teaching.
In terms of criteria to help you choose, we advise you to follow, as a priority, your faculties and / or schools instructions.
Moodle is our institution’s online learning platform. It allows you to create an online course space for all your classes. Each one can be structured with a lot of freedom, according to your teaching approach. It allows you to share documents, links, videos, image galleries, audio files and more. You can pair them all with communication tools (forum, chat room, messaging, news, etc.). It also allows you to set up a very large number of online educational activities (quiz and tests, submission platform for students production or group work, etc.)
These online spaces can be whether extensions of your face-to-face courses, or full courses spaces in a confinement situation. In addition, they are only accessible to students who are registered in your courses.
For help, you can register in the Moodle tutorial area for getting started. It offers a whole series of video tutorials that will take you through the first steps of your online course design on Moodle. You can also contact the educational support of your faculty, or elearning@unil.ch.
MyUnil is a virtual office. It is dynamic, adaptive and, therefore, can be personalized. It offers unified access to various information and services and it allows interaction with people as well as with diverse administrative and academic applications or content.
MyUnil gives access to personal tools such as an agenda (Exchange calendar, courses and exams schedule), an e-mail service, courses descriptions and materials, the academic file (including exam notes), administrative data (e.g., registration certificate) and campus card data. In addition, it allows to manage news and events, as well as serval collections.
Its use is recommended if files and videos are the only kinds of resources you want to share with your students.
All documentation on MyUNIL is available online on the Computer Centre website.
Ubicast is a very simple media server that offers rich video recording (screencast, integration of text or images, file upload, etc.). Ubicast allows you to upload all the videos you produce and want to share. This solution is fully integrated with Moodle. It is also available on MyUNIL.
Access to Mediaserver : https://unil.ubicast.tv/
The Ubicast-UNIL documentation is available here :
It is possible to produce your PowerPoint or Keynote presentations with comments. We have prepared a user manual and a tutorial for each solution.
At the request of many teachers and to support the variety of practices of our community, UNIL now provides Zoom for everyone.
Zoom is, like Webex, a video conferencing system that allows live and recorded online seminars (webinars). It also offers the possibility of creating sub-group rooms during webinars. Moreover, its whiteboard tool is quite rich.
Access to Zoom: https://unil.zoom.us/
Information on distrisoft UNIL: available here
Access to documentation: https://wiki.unil.ch/cse/books/zoom
Our university has an institutional license for Wooclap. It offers you the possibility to use it directly on the website, or via the already installed Moodle plugin.
Access: https://www.wooclap.com
Connection: Create an account with your UNIL email. Once you are connected, enter “UNIL” as your institutional or organization code (in the menu under your name).
Help and Tutorials: https://docs.wooclap.com/en/
Wooclap training is available in our webinar offer.
As a continuation of its summer offer and to pursue its support for the preparation and holding of your courses, the Teaching Support Centre is extending and updating its special and entirely remote training offer. It is composed of :
The details of these courses and the registration modalities are available here: https://conference.unil.ch/cours/cse.
[For medical school teaching, the Medical Pedagogy Unit provides support for its teachers]
You also have the possibility to make an appointment with a pedagogical advisor for a pedagogical consultation on the Dorigny campus or via Zoom by contacting : elearning@unil.ch.
Finally, the CSE's Teaching multimedia support unit is at your disposal to assist you in the production of multimedia resources for the start of the new academic year: elearning@unil.ch
You can discover the whole of the offer of support and guidance made available to you by the CSE on this page.
Please consult the arrangements made by the faculties for the winter 2021 examination session.
The UNIL Teaching Support Center (CSE), in collaboration with UNIDISTANCE, published a vade-mecum for the distance assessment of students.
The German version of the vade-mecum is also available: Vademecum für die Online-Prüfungen der Studierenden Mögliche Elemente für die Wahl der Prüfungsmodalitäten
This vade-mecum offers leads on remote assessment to allow teachers to make informed choices on alternative methods to face-to-face exams.
They are not official instructions or directives! Those are the joint responsibility of both the board and the faculties of our institution.
It contains 3 main types of tests that can be asked from students:
For each type of test, evaluation objects are proposed in connection with "generic learning" that can be measured during the performance of the test. Some tests can be given individually or in a group, synchronously or asynchronously.
For each type of test, the vade-mecum offers a general description including advantages, disadvantages and recommendations. It also guides teachers in the preparation, development and correction of the test, as well as gives him/her a timeline to consider the test from the student’s point of view.
This guide does not pretend to be exhaustive or prescriptive. It would probably be best to combine different tests within an examination to improve the quality of the evaluation.
In order to inform you about how to set up MoodleExam for your online tests and assignments, we have produced these two guides.
Important note
These guides are presented to you in the most comprehensive version possible because we have decided to distribute them to a wider audience than our UNIL community in order to be able to support all users of Moodle who do not have a support service. The choice of settings, uses and instructions for the online exams from your faculties and schools are of course a priority to guide your use of this guide.
Guide to setting up a Synchronous Quiz on MoodleExam
The Moodle Exam TEST activity allows you to design questionnaires (Synchronous Quizzes) for your exams. A wide variety of question types are available in the TEST activity. The TEST activity is automatically scored if it contains self-correcting questions (such as the Multiple Choice question).
Guide to setting up a "Synchronous Production" proof on MoodleExam
Moodle Exam's DUTY activity allows students to submit a file or text to the teacher, and has an assessment platform that allows the teacher to annotate, comment on, evaluate and grade these files/texts submitted by students.
The online oral exam can be organized either on WebEx or on ZOOM.
In this guide, we offer recommendations for the organization of your oral exams via ZOOM for 3 typical scenarios.
To go from on-site to online and at-a-distance teaching in a few days time has required great adaptability but also a fair number of educational choices ; selection of IT tools, teaching methods, resources, etc. In short, you made it! But how are your students adjusting to these adaptations? What could you modify or improve to support them even more in this particular context?
This information does not concern the courses of the School of Medicine. Their evaluation by the students is under the responsibility of the Medical Pedagogy Unit.
The CSE offers a short online questionnaire to get a feel of how your students react to your remote teaching, and to help you make rapid changes in your teaching if necessary.
You can contact cse-eval@unil.ch to plan the distribution of the questionnaire to your students, while specifying:
On your end, you can also refer to this tutorial, available here, to analyse on your own the functioning of your teaching thanks to the concept of educational alignment. While considering the specific context of your teaching, it will help you ensure the consistency of your teaching between the learning outcomes you wish for your students, the content to be covered, the teaching methods and learning activities, as well as the evaluation methods. This tutorial presents recurrent questions in this process and offers some thoughts and courses of action.
You will find here all the practical information about the rooms equipped with a fixed capture system.
These rooms are equipped with "MIRIS - BOX +" and a camera.
AMPHIMAX (MAX-350) * AMPHIMAX (MAX-351) * AMPHIPOLE (POL-A) * AMPHIPOLE (POL-B) * AMPHIPOLE (POL-C) * AMPHIPOLE (POL-D) * ANTHROPOLE (ANT-1031) * BUGNON (BU-9) * GEOPOLIS (GEO-1612) * INTERNEF (NEF-263) * INTERNEF (NEF-273) * Maternité CHUV (Mat FBM) * SYNATHLON (SYN-1216)
In these rooms it is possible to broadcast live :
In these rooms, the capture, recording and sending of these to the teachers' channel is automated via the management of an online calendar controlled by our Helpdesk team.
If you teach in this type of room, here is the modus operandi to follow:
IMPORTANT: In order to guide you in recording your lessons, here is our Type A recording guide
MAX-410 * MAX- 414 * MAX-415 * ANT-1129 * ANT-2024 * ANT-2064 * ANT-2106 * César-Roux 19 * César-Roux 19-Demieville * GEO- 1620 * GEO- 1628 * GEO- 2121 * GEO- 2129 * GEO- 2137 * GEO- 2144 * GEO- 2207 * GEO- 2208 * GEO- 1620 * GEO- 2224 * GEO- 2227 * GEO- 2230 * GEO- 2235 * GEO- 2238 * GEO- 2879 * NEF- 271 * NEF- 272 * NEF-275
These rooms are equipped with an openboard with a multidirectional microphone and a broadcasting box for audio-visual streams.
In these rooms it is possible to broadcast live :
In these rooms, the collection, recording and sending of equipment to the teachers' channel is also automated.
If you teach in this type of room, here is the modus operandi to follow:
In order to guide you in recording your lessons, you will find this resource: Type B recording guide
IMPORTANT:
An email confirming the encoding of your requests was sent to you on Wednesday 23rd September. If you have not received it, please contact captation@unil.ch.
You can follow on this page the latest information about the UNIL recording system that we keep up to date (in French).
These are, on the one hand, rooms with at least 60 seats that are not equipped at the moment. On the other hand, all other rooms that are not equipped. It is possible for us to provide teachers with a USB table microphone which will guarantee good sound quality. This page contains all the information available concerning the loan of equipment.
For all these rooms we recommend that you open a ZOOM room and broadcast it on the room's projector. You will also be able to share your course materials in this ZOOM room.
Rooms with more than 60 seats, not equipped, for which a microphone can be lent:
POL-210 * POL-315 * POL-315.1 * POL-319 * POL-340 * ANT-2013 * ANT-2055 * ANT-2097 * ANT-2120 * ANT-3021 * ANT-3032 * ANT-3174 * ANT-3185 * ANT-4021 * ANT-4030 * ANT-5021 * ANT-5033 * ANT-5196 * BIO- Amphi 2914 * CUB-231 (1) * CUB-234 (2) * EXT-109 *
GENOPODE-A * GENOPODE- B * GENOPODE-C * NEF-121 * NEF-122 * NEF-123 * NEF-125 *
NEF-126 * NEF- 129 * NEF-231 * NEF-232 * NEF-237 * UNITHEQUE (UTQ)- 4215
If you teach in this type of room in Hy-Flex mode, here is the recommended modus operandi:
In order to guide you in recording your lessons, you will find this resource: Guide for type C capture
Complete documentation: https://wiki.unil.ch/cse/books/zoom
Contact-reservation: elearning@unil.ch
Only "tour de cou" type microphones are available in the auditoriums for hygienic reasons. Hand and lapel microphones have been removed.
Teachers who wish to do so can borrow a microphone from the Teaching Support Centre (Centre de soutien à l’enseignement) until the end of the autumn semester. Please make your reservation request via elearning@unil.ch. An appointment for the collection of the equipment will be arranged after confirmation of the request.
The Helpdesk team is in charge of monitoring live recordings and is at your disposal in the event of a problem. They can be contacted by e-mail (captation@unil.ch) or by telephone via the UNIL helpdesk number (+41 21 692 63 18).
For the entire UNIL community:
Request support to develop a distance learning course : elearning@unil.ch
The CSE offers you a short online questionnaire to "take the temperature" of the current situation and be able to make rapid changes in your teaching.
