Lecture

Lectures can be created and offered using a combination of Office 365 (PowerPoint), Zoom, Mediaspace, and D2L. This will allow you to give and record your presentation (PowerPoint and Zoom) and deliver it to students (Mediaspace and D2L). We recommend you schedule online sessions during a time your course already occupies. Videos may be recorded via Zoom and then streamed to students via MSU Mediaspace and D2L.

Schedule your online sessions during the time that your course already occupies. This guarantees that students already have the availability in their schedule and you will not be impinging on other courses or outside obligations of students.Tell students to plan to attend an online class at the normally scheduled meeting time. Lectures can be conducted live via Zoom with/without screen sharing slides, and recorded for future viewing.

  • Lectures can be conducted live via Zoom. Instructors can share links to their Zoom meeting site in D2L and clearly communicate when these sessions will take place.
  • Zoom sessions can be recorded, and those recordings can be posted in MSU Media Space.
  • Instructors can create asynchronous lectures using either Zoom or MSU Media Space to create a screen capture video. This video can then be posted in MSU Media Space.
  • MSU Media Space can provide machine-generated captions at no cost. While these are not perfect, given the circumstances they will be helpful.
  • Zoom and video content are bandwidth intensive and may be problematic for some students. In lieu of using technology to replicate a lecture session, consider alternate means of content delivery:
    • Lecture outlines or notes with shared PowerPoint slides
    • Guided note-taking sheets or graphic organizers to guide students through their assigned readings
    • Audio recordings use less bandwidth and could be coupled with shared PPTs, worksheets, and/or images
    • Use D2L discussion boards to post key points from each lecture, then pose probing questions about those key points

Generally your workflow will unfold like this:

Lecture Checklist

Here is a generic checklist of the steps that can help you organize what you need to do to offer a live lecture:

Schedule webinar

  1. Uncheck “required” checkbox
  2. Video Host set to “on
  3. Telephone and computer audio option checked
  4. Click Schedule button
  5. Copy webinar link or invitation
  6. Leave window open

Let students know about webinar

  1. Post invitation or link to D2L Announcement
  2. Email classlist a copy of the invitation in D2L

Start Webinar

  1. Go back to window you left open from scheduling webinar and click “Start this Webinar” button
  2. Click “Join with computer audio” button
  3. Open your presentation
  4. Under the SlideShow menu, click the “Always use subtitles” button 
  5. Under the Meeting tab in Zoom click the “Start”Sharing” option and choose Microsoft Presentation
  6. Under the Meeting tab click “Record”
  7. Click the Start presentation button on Powerpoint

Stop Webinar

  1. To stop your Powerpoint presentation, hit the Esc key
  2. To stop sharing your window in Zoom, click the Red button near the top that says “Stop Share”
  3. To stop recording choose the “Stop recording” option under the Meeting tab
  4. Stop webinar by clicking on the “End Meeting for All” option in the bottom right hand corner of the Zoom window

Upload Video

  1. Log into Mediaspace:  https://mediaspace.msu.edu/
  2. Click on the “Add New” button
  3. Double click on the file to convert the file to MP4
  4. Drag Zoom MP4 video to upload to Mediaspace
  5. As it is uploading, scroll lower on the page, enter a name for the video, and click the “Unlisted” option and hit Save

Share link with students

  1. Click on the “Go to media” link at the bottom of the page
  2. Under the video there is a tab called “Share”, click on it
  3. Copy the link it gives you to the Media Page and post that in D2L
    1. In your D2L course, click on the Content tab
    2. If you haven’t yet, create a module called “Lectures” by clicking on the box “Add a module…” in the bottom left hand corner of the page.
    3. In the module, click the “Upload/create” button and choose the “Create a link” option
    4. Paste the link you copied from MediaSpace

Check your equipment ahead of time.

Download Zoom:

  • https://msu.zoom.us/
  • For lecture delivery, use Zoom:  In general, if your class is: 
    • Less than 50 students use Zoom for meetings
    • More than 50 then use Zoom Webinars
  • Here is a video that can help your students download Zoom on their computer:  (INSERT VIDEO FROM BOB)…you can post this in your D2L course

Download presentation software:

  • You can use whatever presentation software you like, however MSU has a free license and you can download the latest version of PowerPoint here:  https://www.office.com/

Hardware:

MediaSpace