The second - entirely online - semester has started. If you are still groping or need help with what you can use at MUNI as a teacher for your online teaching, look at the overview of tools and other tips.
As educators, you have probably already found that it is appropriate to use a combination of various tools and platforms for different ways of online teaching (seminars, lectures, exercises, etc.). At MUNI, trained experts are available to advise you while choosing the right solution. Therefore, if you have questions or concerns, do not be afraid to ask either e-technicians or ServiceDesk.
If you somehow managed to teach online, even without MS Teams, hat off to you. We strongly recommend you get acquainted with this tool for cooperation, communication, and organization of your seminar groups and lectures and explore the possibilities of using MS Teams for your online teaching. On this page, you can find inspiration and examples of how to use MS Teams for different education situations and what other alternatives for them you have (e.g., Zoom).
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Take a look at the top 5 most popular instructions and recommendations for MS Teams related to online teaching.
You can find comprehensive options for remote teaching, general tips, specific tools, and instructions together with shared experiences and inspirations from other teachers in the MU Information System. It is the main signpost for online education. In addition to the organization or registration of teaching itself, it also offers teachers the opportunity to submit assignments or online testing, the help of e-technicians, and a lot of other information.
Do you need to arrange a meeting according to the individual's time preferences? You can now use the Tudle application at MUNI, developed by the MU IS team, as an internal tool and equivalent to the well-known Doodle.
The meeting organizer creates voting options in the application, and the addressed participants choose a date from the menu at the sent link. The application can also be used if a participant who is not a MU IS user is supposed to vote. Using the application is intuitive, and you can find it here.
In case you are entirely groping, or you would like to improve your online teaching and use new didactic methods and procedures, we highly recommend the website of CERPEK, the Pedagogical Competence Development Centre at Masaryk University.
As colleagues from CERPEK state, they do not burden those interested by theories but aim to develop their competencies through their activity. They organize courses focusing on various areas, some of them you can watch from the recording and others you can still enroll in.
Another novelty is the possibility of individual consultations focused on methodological and didactic support of online teaching (i.e., not technical solutions). That's why you can consult with CERPEK experts, regardless of which tools and online platforms you prefer.
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We recommend you take a look at the nicely designed pages dealing with online teaching at MU FF. There is a lot of relevant information for every teacher, regardless of affiliation to any faculty.
As of 1 August 2024, the ESRI ArcGIS Desktop licence, which was previously available to all MU employees and students, will no longer be available at Masaryk University. As an alternative, we recommend switching to the more modern ArcGIS Pro, which offers a modern user interface, greater stability, more advanced features and better user support.
Do you want to know the news about Microsoft 365 tools used at the university? What changes and improvements await us in 2024? We have prepared a webinar for you, where we will not only summarize all the current information, but also look at tips on how to work (together) more securely and efficiently in Microsoft 365.
