Support for distance education

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• Covid-19 faculty info, regularly updated, plase look at least once a day: [ CZ,EN ]
  
• Faculty Technical info (in Czech, working live document)
• SVTI návody
• SVTI summary as of 2020-04-01. Still some equipment available.

used e.g. by B3B33KUI team for 50+ participating students on lectures and multiple parallels of seminars.

• BigBlueButton for lectures and seminars. Keep usual schedule.
• Modify your materials reflecting different dynamics of on-line lectures. Try to be prepared even better then for standard frontal teaching.
• Use A/B/C/D questions as many as you can. BBB nicely supports them and they keep listeners alive
• Brute for uploading homeworks. Students may print something, solve problem on paper and upload to Brute.

add your own

• It's possible to record your talk in the rooms: T2:D3-209, 309, C4-80, KN:E-107, 301 . More information. Example of the result (instructions used to prepare referenced video on ABClinuxu - in Czech only for now).
• Digital lecture can be created with help of OpenBoard, screen casting application (eg. OBS Studio). A graphic tablet and good microphone is recommended. Example of the result. Spare microphones are available on K13133 secretary E-217.
• OpenBoard can also help with annotating PDF documents/slides. App imports PDF, you can annotate and export back to PDF, works well.

• Powerpoint
• Chrome extension for screen recording can be used for adding sound into Google Slides
• OBS Studio is powerful tool for recording and streaming computer screen works in Win/Mac/Linux. Jan Kybic: On my Linux computer, recording a single window does not work, only the whole screen. This makes it unusable for single monitor setups.
• Slidecrunch - produce slideshows/slidecasts from slides
• Simple screen recorder - records a video from a window with an audio commentary.

• BigBlueButton is integrated into BRUTE (Course→Conference rooms). Every teacher can create a meeting room for her/his course, where attendees can be students or only teachers. Teachers are always moderators. The meetings can be recorded and the recordings are accessible from BRUTE several minutes after the end of the meeting.
• Teacher-Moderator may lock users in a way they do not see each other, but the moderator sees them all, see the instructive video
• Tutorial video for moderators (teachers) and viewers (students) are available. More videos are available on BigBlueButton page.
• BBB recordings are available as
  • BBB/replay - viewable through browser, useful for asynchronous viewing
  • mp4 recordings - for download
  • annotated pdf - for download
• Personal rooms - top-right user pull down menu
  • for teachers, teacher can also invite people outside university
  • for students, for student discussions
  • BBB is mainly for education; teacher→students communication. For many active bi-directional peer↔peer communications may be less effective/reliable than e.g. zoom.us.
• For MacOSX users, it seems it works with Chrome better, more reliable than with Safari. Firefox not tested.

• Faculty instance of the Zoom.us. Instructions provided by SVTI. But BEWARE
• Microsoft Teams is available for all CTU users. Web application is available but does not support all features. Desktop clients for Win/Mac/Linux are available. All participants need to have a Microsoft account. CTU people have it (e.g. kybicjan@cvut.cz). Instructions provided by SVTI.
• BigBlueButton is integrated into BRUTE (Course→Conference rooms). Every teacher can create a meeting room for her/his course, where attendees can be students or only teachers. Teachers are always moderators. The meetings can be recorded and the recordings are accessible from BRUTE several minutes after the end of the meeting. Tutorial video for moderators (teachers) and viewers (students) are available. More videos are available on BigBlueButton page.
• Google Hangouts Meet can be used for up to 250 participants now. Use faculty Google Apps account. Instructions provided by SVTI
• Free videoconference service: https://meet.jit.si. Uses an open software https://jitsi.org. Contrary to other free services, it allows conferences of more than 4 people, and also displays more than 4 user videos. May be useful for students.
• It's possible online streaming of talks in the rooms: T2:D3-209, 309, C4-80, KN:E-107, 301 . More information.
• Slido manages questions from the audience - eases feedback. You combine streaming lectures (even from youtube) and use Slido for interaction.
• Mumble group live voice meetings, initially developed by online games players for themselves. Uses Speex and other technologies specially optimized for low lag voice communication. Whole system is open-source, client installation (apt-get install mumble). Running server is easy on GNU/Linux systems as well (apt-get install apt-get install mumble-server). If you consider use of Mumble contact Pavel Pisa, test server is available on his school desktop/development PC.

• https://awwapp.com free version has some limitations, among others, no save, just export to PDF with watermark and no multipage
• BigBlueButton offers shared board
• https://whiteboardfox.com/ is free by default, very simplistic, but perhaps good enough for start
• overview https://zapier.com/blog/best-online-whiteboard/

Conditions for distance exams at FEE

Brute:

• BRUTE tests component has been upgraded to on-line version.
• BBB, allows locking students in a way the teacher (moderator) can see their video stream but students do not see each other.
• single answer, multiple answers, and freeform supported as of now

Moodle:

• Distance exams in Moodle

We kindly ask more experienced users of the above sw tools for sharing their practices.

• Shared document from MUNI
• MUNI web page about distant teaching
• Free Software Foundation's pointers to Remote Communication solutions
• Free Software Foundation's suggestion Try these free software tools for staying in touch