Daily Checklist for Teaching, Streaming, and Recording Classes - College of Law

The information below details a simple checklist for teaching, streaming, and recording classes in Dineen Hall. 

Additional information, including tutorial videos, can be found at https://law.syr.edu/teachingfall20.  

Issues with classroom technology, or questions about preparing to teach?  Please email LawHelp@law.syr.edu 

• Start of class
  • Turn on teaching station
  • On PC
    • Log in to room's PC
    • Prepare presentation materials to be displayed (if any)
    • Launch browser
    • Navigate to Blackboard site for course
    • Click Zoom meeting link for course and confirm launch of Zoom app
  • Zoom
    • Sign in to Zoom if necessary
    • Admit classroom assistant to Zoom session
    • Make classroom assistant co-host of Zoom session
    • Activate camera and microphone
    • Select and adjust camera as needed
    • Turn on and test lapel microphone (in lecture halls and the Gray Ceremonial Courtroom only)
      • Fit microphone cover to mic, if desired
      • Ensure lapel microphone is not muted (mute switch on top of transmitter pack)
    • Should be amplified within room
      • Adjust teaching station microphone level as needed
    • Level meter in Zoom's microphone icon should illustrate incoming sound
    • Share screen (if using presentation materials)
    • Activate recording
    • Proceed with teaching
• End of class
  • Remove microphone cover if used, turn off lapel microphone, and place in drawer (lecture halls only)
  • End Zoom meeting
  • Log off of PC
  • Turn off teaching station (if no other class is immediately incoming)