EMCC Libraries: Moving Online Help for Instructors: Start Here

Faculty Select

"Faculty Select" is a tool produced by EBSCO to help instructors find materials to incorporate materials that are either free or already held by EMCC libraries for your classes.

Most eBooks have limits on the number of people who can use it at one time, how many pages can be downloaded, etc., making them unsuitable for use as a class textbook. Publishers call this "Digital Rights Management" or DRM. If we do not have an unrestricted license for a book you would like to adopt as a text, the library will happily try to acquire it for you.

To use "Faculty Select" Copy and paste the link below into your browser search bar.

How to Transition to Online Instruction

Course Delivery Guidance
This was created by Chris Square at EMCC
**The following information pertains to CAMPUS GROUND classes converting to ONLINE INSTRUCTION.**
Teaching Online Articles
A list of articles compiled by Dr. Rush to help instructors with the transition from face-to-face to online learning.

Faculty Resources Folder
This is a OneDrive folder that all faculty are encouraged to look at for institutional resources.
Canvas Youtube Tutorial
Here is a "Crash Course" in using Canvas.

9 Strategies for Effective Online Teaching
Many of us are having to move teaching quickly online (tips here if you are still setting up your course). Once you have your technology in place, take a deep breath. Teaching online requires different types of interactions with students. We’ve simplified what works into nine strategies based on research that will help set you and your students up for success in your newly online course.
Digital Working COVID-19
Even though this article focuses on businesses, it still has several good recommendations for working from home.
Emergency Online Petagogy
"The COVID19 pandemic is forcing many teachers unfamiliar with online teaching to abandon suddenly their traditional modes of instruction and to begin to interact with students through the Internet. Some find the prospect daunting. The aspiration of this document is to help such teachers make the transition from classroom to online teaching — and perhaps to see the shift, not merely as a way to slow the spread of infection, but as a source of educational opportunities."
QM Emergency Remote Instruction Checklist
The Quality Matters Emergency Remote Instruction (ERI) Checklist is a tiered list of considerations, tips, and actionable strategies to enact during an institutional move to temporary remote instruction of classroom-based courses.
Here is the link to a video demonstrating how to use this checklist: https://tinyurl.com/sau6bfq
Transitioning to an Online Class
Transitioning from teaching a face-to-face class to teaching an online course requires rethinking and reconfiguring materials. Lectures, activities, and assessments that worked for your face-to-face class will need to be tweaked or replaced because of the nature of the online environment.
This article discusses some of the benefits of the online learning format and how you can structure your course materials to take advantage of those strengths.

Rapidly Shifting Your Course from In-Person to Online
There are a lot of pedagogical and technical issues that make the shift from in-person to online teaching challenging, but for once, copyright is not a big additional area of worry! Most of the legal issues are the same in both contexts. If it was okay to do in class, it is often okay to do online, especially when your online access is limited to the same enrolled students.
Resources on Copyright & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
Library copyright experts have joined together to provide these resources for higher education, including college, research, community college, and special libraries.
Virtual Copyright Office Hours
For higher education librarians, including at college, research, community college, and special libraries, with questions about supporting rapidly shifting in-person instruction and research to remote, library copyright experts are offering informational office hours via Zoom.

Cambridge University Press: Support for Educators During COVID-19 Disruption
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to impact our communities, Cambridge University Press is committed to supporting teachers and learners whose class time is impacted. As you plan and prepare to respond to your program’s concerns, we are focused on supporting you.
In the coming days we will begin sharing:
Resources that can be used in a variety of ways to support students who can no longer come to class
Articles being posted daily on our World of Better Learning blog in response to these shifts in teaching, in addition to a wealth of other resources
Content bundles to connect you with the resources and support available for your course that you may not yet be using.

Pearson: Working and Learning Online During a Pandemic
More and more institutions are moving classes online and we know you may be searching for the best ways to make this transition for yourself and your students. Pearson has gathered experts from across Pearson to build a Resource Hub populated with best practices and guidance to help you make a fast and strong move to online teaching and learning.
We urge you to visit regularly for updates on how to respond as learning and teaching needs evolve in this challenging situation.
Publisher/Vendor Support for Access to E-Resources in Response to COVID-19
A list of publishers and vendors offering support via free access, updated by librarians in real time.
Vendor Love in the Time of COVID-19
A community-sourced list of video and other content that library vendors are making available on free or modified terms during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Institutional Update
March 17, 2020
Institutional Update #2
March 16,2020
Institutional Update #3
March 18, 2020
Institutional Update #4
March 22, 2020
Institutional Update #5
March 29, 2020

Reset My School Password

Oh Snap! You forgot your password. Now What!?

Don't worry, here is what you do:

Click here
You will then have to choose between

Image of "change my password" box image of "reset password" box

Then follow the instructions and you'll get a new password!

* If there are any problems, contact EMCC's IT Student Support at 662.243.1939 or helpdesk@eastms.edu

Here are some helpful links provided by Canvas.

Embed a Youtube video in Power Point
- Select the slide you want the video on.
- Select the "Insert" tab and select "Online Video"
- You should see a bar that looks like this:
- Open Youtube and find the video you want to use
- Select the "Share" button under the video
- Select "Embed" from the following pop up menu
- Copy the embed code
- Paste into Powerpoint bar
- You're video is now embeded in your Powerpoint! Make sure to test it out though! To do that, you need to click on the slideshow button on the lower right side of the screen.
- Some videos will not play due to privacy restrictions that the original poster placed on the video.
Embed a YouTube video in a Canvas text box

Canvas information came from Tufts University

All Canvas account holders (instructors / staff / students) can embed a YouTube video into any Canvas text box (Announcements / Pages / Syllabus / Assignments / Discussions / Quizzes).

Go to the Canvas text box, place your cursor in the text box where you want the video embedded and click the YouTube Video icon.

This displays the YouTube Search panel.

Enter text in the search box and press Enter (Return) on your keyboard.

This displays the YouTube search results for your query.

Click "Embed" for the YouTube video you want to embed in the text box.

This embeds the video and returns the display to the Canvas text box.

Click Save/Publish/Post.

This saves the text box with the embedded video.

Note: The example above is a Canvas Pages text box. YouTube videos can be embedded into any Canvas text box (Announcements / Pages / Syllabus / Assignments / Discussions / Quizzes).

Canvas Teacher App Download

Teacher App

Moving Online Help for Instructors: Start Here