Contents: main | setting up | before class | in the room | classroom management
Once you find out you are teaching an IVC course, your scheduler should take care of reserving the room for your course. Be sure that you attend a training session especially if you are new to teaching IVC courses. Teaching techniques can vary considerably from traditional face to face instruction. It is important to get some practice in before you begin broadcasting your class to a live audience.
Each class is supported by a member of the Video Broadcast Services staff. A technician will help you to set up the equipment and make sure that it is working properly. Make sure that you contact your technician if you have any hardware problems, or need to load any sofware or files to the instructor computer. Your technician should also be contacted if you wish to cancel your class meeting. This allows the local and remote sites to be released so that they may be used for ad-hoc meetings and presentations.
IVC classes do not follow the traditional exam schedule of the university. You have 3 options for your exam. First you can choose to give a take home exam. The next option is to hold the exam on the date and time of the last scheduled class. The third option is to offer your exam at the same day and time as the other class meetings, but during exam week. Regardless of your choice, you should email the information via our support request form at least three weeks before the end of the semester.
Each session can be recorded for archiving purposes. The recordings are distributable on video tape or through a streaming media file on the web. MBA and CGEP classes are the only ones routinely videotaped. Any other class will need to supply its own tape or an ISR to purchase tape stock from VBS. Tapes become the responsibility of the instructor. For the streaming files, the link will be given only to the instructor and it is his or her duty to notify the students.
*IVC - Interactive Video-Conferencing
