Transitioning to an Online Class Due to a Campus Shutdown

In the event of a campus shutdown, you can follow the steps below to quickly transition your face-to-face class to an online class.

Access MCC’s Brightspace.
If you have not done so already set up your course and upload your Instructor Plan into Brightspace.
Post your PowerPoint presentations (Detailed directions in Brightspace Mechanics, click here.), lecture notes, and/or other instructional materials in Brightspace.
Post discussion questions in Brightspace to continue your face-to-face conversations. (Helpful tip – you can also create a discussion board for general class questions, this will help with answering questions in a forum instead of separate emails.)
Communicate with your students using Announcements and Discussion Boards in Brightspace and your MCC Email.
Use MCC’s Zoom to hold live sessions with students (for Zoom help click here).
Use YuJa to manage and record videos, audio files, documents, etc. With YuJa, you can share resources, initiate live video conferences, and record and store media. You can also add resources stored in YuJa directly into your Brightspace courses.
Create quizzes and assignments where students can upload work as you temporarily teach at a distance. Training and support documents for developing Assignments and Quizzes are also available.
Be flexible and patient. This is an unsettling time for you and your students. Also the first time some of you and your students have used Brightspace and Zoom.
Extra Brightspace Help: Find additional Brightspace instructions by accessing Brightspace Mechanics by logging into Brightspace.
For current training schedule please look at Mikken Canham’s email.

Suggested Resources

For a comprehensive and continually evolving list of plans and recommendations from other institutions, please refer to this spreadsheet. This spreadsheet is managed by Daniel Stanford, Director of Faculty Development & Technology Innovation, at the Center for Teaching and Learning at DePaul University.