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Learn how to handle missing and/or unassigned participants when you have created preassigned breakout rooms in Zoom.

Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates with Nexus via assignments. Perusall allows students and their instructors to collaboratively markup documents, articles, websites, etc. online. Instead of reading a document and discussing it, Perusall brings the discussion to the text

Zoom is a video conferencing tool that allows you to teach live classes online. You can set it up so that everyone sees a thumbnail video of every person in a grid—kind of like the Brady Bunch, if you remember that TV show. This one-pager provides some quick tips to start using Zoom to replace your face to face classes at Union.

An important learning goal for every student at Union College is the ability to develop a thesis statement and then reason with evidence. Students will typically work on developing this goal across most of their courses during all four years of their undergraduate education. Why? It is a hard skill to learn. Kialo provides a visual way to see how an argument is constructed and defended, giving you another teaching strategy in your "toolbox".

NameCoach is an online platform for recording and sharing name pronunciations. This article explains how to add the NameCoach activity in a Nexus course for students to record themselves pronouncing their name and hear others say their names.

Quickly and securely create, analyze, and grade coursework using Google Docs through Nexus. Create and analyze assignments with individualized comment bank, rubrics, and originality reports.

At Union College, we use the Moodle learning management system (LMS) which is locally branded as, "Nexus". One of the things students want faculty to know is that a well organized Nexus course website makes them feel better about taking a course because expectations are clear and they what is due, by when. The Learning Design and Digital Innovation team has created a series of course templates to help get you started.

The Revolabs Dual Wireless Microphone System comes with two (2) microphones. There are a Revolabs HD Wearable microphone and a Revolabs HD Omni-directional Tabletop wireless boundary microphone.

As circumstances arise that require you to teach online, you may find yourself needing to administer tests online. In the guidance that follows, the term "tests" includes quizzes, exams, and other assessments that can normally be delivered in the form of a document that students receive, complete, and return to the professor.

Find out to apply create and apply labels and filters to your emails.

Find out how to use Nexus to track attendance in your course.