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The growing emphasis on avoiding public spaces when experiencing respiratory symptoms might mean that more of your students are missing class. Recent years have made faculty and students alike more aware of the option to record events to share later. But is video always the best way to help missing students catch up? Here are some things to consider:

Issue defined: Should Professors Still Record Lectures? Maybe. Maybe Not considers accessibility, negative impacts on class attendance and discussion, and student privacy concerns

Potential solutions arranged from simplest to most complex:

Low-tech solution: Share your slides and ask for a student volunteer to take notes, give them this guide Effective Note-Taking in Class

Solution with collaborative learning benefits: Collaborative Google Doc Class Notes with bonus low stakes feedback mechanism for instructor 

Big change: Teaching in Higher Ed Poscast EPISODE 478: Hyflex Revisited with David Rhoads Hyflex courses are often built first as asynchronous online learning experiences, with in-person and sync options built on top of that foundation

Dr. Margaret Price will describe the theory of critical access studies, which treats access as a relational interaction. Rather than treating disability access as a series of predictable fixes for individual problems, critical access looks at larger factors including space, time, design, and community. Attendees will take part in several interactive activities aimed at thinking about, and ultimately finding concrete takeaways for, persistent access questions in their own work environments.

Dr. Price will conduct an in-person workshop titled “Cultivating Communities of Access in Teaching Spaces”  which will offer ideas for enlivening your approach to access in the classroom—starting with a redefinition of “access” as an interactive process and means to community-building. This interactive workshop will be structured around three key concepts: presence, participation, and pacing. Recording from Nov 1st virtual workshop will be shared in advance of in-person workshop.

This is a great time to take a "temperature check" of how the semester is going for the students you have right now. Here are some strategies you might consider:

Want a quick, conversational reminder of how and why to collect feedback? Refresh your memory with our blog post (written by LEO Lecturer Sarah Silverman!)

Looking for an example template to collect your own feedback? Here you go!

The Hub is offering mid-course student feedback sessions for in-person and online classes. After a consultation, an instructional designer will engage directly with your students to collect feedback, without you present. We'll then discuss that feedback individually and help you make a plan for responding to your students.

Questions or comments? Carla Vecchiola, cvecchio@umich.edu

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