Gillings Remote Teaching and Working
Training opportunities
These training opportunities provide Gillings School faculty and staff members a chance to learn more about working and teaching away from the office.
All training sessions last 30 minutes and use Zoom web conferencing.
All training sessions last 30 minutes and use Zoom web conferencing.
Please visit the Keep Teaching website for updated information.
Note: Some sessions are via Zoom only; in-person sessions are limited to 40 attendees but are offered in a larger room to promote social distancing.
The Gillings School IT department will provide a series of live online training to assist faculty and staff with teaching, working or meeting remotely.
Zoom Basics training will provide a general overview of how to activate and manage your Zoom account; create a Zoom meeting session and operate basic functions to hold a Zoom remote conference meeting or class.
ZOOM Advanced Features training will provide an overview of how to use advanced features that users may be interested in using such as: recording; breakout rooms; polling; registration; waiting rooms; alternate hosts; etc.
All training sessions will last approximately 30-40 minutes (depending on questions) and will use the Zoom remote conference platform to connect.
Monday, March 16
12:30 p.m. - Zoom Basics
1:30 p.m. - Zoom Advanced Features
Tuesday, March 17
12:30 p.m. - Zoom Basics
1:30 p.m. - Zoom Advanced Features
Wednesday, March 18
12:30 p.m. - Zoom Basics
1:30 p.m. - Zoom Advanced Features
Thursday, March 19
12:30 p.m. - Zoom Basics
1:30 p.m. - Zoom Advanced Features
Friday, March 20
12:30 p.m. - Zoom Basics
1:30 p.m. - Zoom Advanced Features
Resources for remote teaching and working
The following resources provide information about instructional technology, online storage and interdepartmental communication.
Keep Teaching provides guidelines and resources to help you continue teaching from a distance when you or your students are unable to meet on campus during temporary closures.
In preparation for unplanned events, such as inclement weather and public health situations, ITS sends out information intended to help you plan and prepare for alternate work arrangements. Now is a great time to ensure that the tools you may need to work from home or an alternative location are ready to go.
Zoom allows for video, audio and screen sharing for up to 300 participants. It can be used from any computer, laptop, tablet or mobile device. Zoom also works with rooms equipped for video conferencing.
The Gillings School's Instructional Technology group supports Sakai and related instructional technologies for the faculty, staff and students in the school. We can help guide you through campus and school-supported technologies and help determine the “why” and “when” of using technology for instruction.
OneDrive is an individual online storage space in the cloud for all students, faculty and staff members.
Microsoft Teams is one of the applications available to all UNC-Chapel Hill employees as part of the Microsoft Office Collaboration Suite. Teams is accessible to all UNC employees with an ONYEN and password. Users who do not have a valid ONYEN and password, but have a Microsoft Office 365 Account, can access Teams.
