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This Canvas course helps you prepare for teaching and learning remotely. We have carefully chosen a small set of software tools to offer the simplest means of remote instruction. These tools are:

Zoom for face to face lectures, discussions, consultations and assistance [learn more]
Canvas as the learning management system [learn more], including using Canvas and Respondus for Remote Exams [learn more]
Virtual Qatar as a remotely accessible computer cluster [learn more]
PowerPoint and Zoom for lecture recording [learn more]
VPN [learn more] and Box [learn more] for remote file access and collaboration

You can learn about these tools in the modules section. Students are directed to the remote learning module.

The following list maps teaching and learning activities into direct links into the relevant videos of software features that support the activity.

Lectures
- Delivering live lectures: see Zoom module topics: get started with Zoom; sign in to Zoom with SSO; test and troubleshoot audio and video; schedule your lecture, office hours, group activity; deliver your lecture - share screen, annotation and whiteboard.
- Joining your online classroom (students): see Zoom module topics: sign into Zoom with SSO; test and troubleshoot audio and video; also see remote learning module topic: joining a Zoom session semi-incognito.
- Recording live lectures: see lecture recording module topic: lecture recording with Zoom.
- Recording lectures for upcoming classes: see lecture recording module topics: introduction to lecture recording; lecture recording with PowerPoint on Windows; lecture recording with PowerPoint on Macintosh; lecture recording using Zoom.
- Discussions based class: see Zoom module topics: group activities using breakout rooms; per-assigning students to breakout rooms; also see introduction to Canvas module.
Consultations and office hours: see Zoom module topics: get started with Zoom; sign in to Zoom with SSO; test and troubleshoot audio and video; schedule your lecture, office hours, group activity; deliver your lecture - share screen, annotation and whiteboard.
Student group work: see Zoom module topics: group activities using breakout rooms; interact with your students - manage participants.
Conducting online assessments: see using Canvas and Respondus for remote exams module.
Sharing course materials: see introduction to Canvas module.
Student collaboration and sharing files: see Box and Google G Suite information from the Carnegie Mellon University main campus.
Remote cluster use: see Virtual Qatar module.