Category: Educational Technology

With NSU’s shift to online delivery of education, faculty face the new challenge of ensuring their virtual classrooms are free from harassment and discrimination. The NSU Title IX staff has developed several resources to assist the NSU community in the transition to online interactivity, and we would like to highlight one of these designed for faculty.  Specifically, there is a new Title IX webpage with practical strategies for faculty to enhance their classroom management skills to ensure that students’ online educational activities can be free from sexual harassment:  Title IX Virtual Resources for Faculty (https://www.nova.edu/title-ix/harassment-free-virtual-learning)  Suggestions for Zoom Hosts Your primary methods to ensure safety with Zoom meetings should be:   Only allowing attendees you expect in your session   Not allowing unintended video, audio or screen sharing   Moderating or removing disruptive attendees   To accomplish these goals, we have the following recommendations on Zoom meetings:    Never share meeting URL’s on public facing sites or services  Do not share your meeting URL on public facing sites like social media or forums. Students can access Zoom meetings in Canvas from the Course Menu, if necessary you can provide the meeting details by emailing or messaging participants directly.  Don’t use a Personal Meeting ID  The Meeting ID is the id used in a Zoom meeting URL. It is […]

Zoombombing You may have heard the phrase “Zoombombing” recently talked about in the media. It is a disruptive practice of that seeks to disturb online meeting sessions by displaying offensive graphics, messages or broadcasting disruptive audio. You can think of this like a prank telephone call, but the results could be disastrous since you can’t erase or undo what happens, and all attendees will be part of it.  To protect your online classroom environment, please be sure to update your Zoom software and implement the suggestions listed below when scheduling and hosting Zoom sessions.  Update Your Zoom Software An important update for the Zoom application was released yesterday, April 2nd, 2020, fixing a recently identified security vulnerability. As a result, OIIT urges you to update your application in order to ensure platform safety, privacy, and security. To update Zoom, open the Zoom application on your Windows or Mac personal computer. You will see up to two different notifications alerting you of an application update. The first notification is a pop-up window that will appear with the “Zoom Update” (Pictured below). The second notification will appear on your Zoom application home screen. A light blue stripe is visible with verbiage that reads, “A new version is available! Update.” Click the “Update” button in either area and follow the onscreen prompts to […]