"Great moments are born from great opportunities." - Herb Brooks

Govs,

What a whirlwind week we’ve had! Life sure can turn on a dime, but rest assured Distance Education is here to help you. The digital learning space can be both intimidating and exciting, but when we have such a short amount of time to take an entire university online, it can be more intimidating than exciting. Luckily, we always try to do everything as a team, it’s why APSU is so special. We hear President White talk about how special APSU is all the time, and I think it’s quite obvious during these times how right she is.

In the last week I’ve seen departments come together in unprecedented ways. I’ve seen people move mountains. I’ve seen worry and panic behind eyes but smiles on faces and an eager and positive attitude to just get the task list done so that we can do what we need to do; for our students, and for each other. I continue to be blown away by the caliber of professionalism and dedication of this group of people I get to work with, and I am so grateful to be a Gov. I want you to know that Distance Education is here to support you in any way that we can. Please lean on us. The digital learning space is our home, and we will work hard to make it as inviting as possible for anyone that may be uneasy and unsure. For those that are confident in this space, we welcome the partnership!

Let’s work together to lift our community up!

Socially Distant,

Amor Moran 

We're going digital! Check out Distance Education's web-page dedicated to helping our faculty move completely online. We got you Govs!

Need help translating some traditional in person classroom activities to the digital learning space? Click on the graphic above for ideas. 

Don't know where to start? Our instructional designers have created an easy plug and play D2L course outline that we can import into your class for you. Contact the Support Desk for more details. 

We have resources for students available on our website. Have students go to www.apsu.edu/godigital then select the student resources link at the top of the page. If they ever need help with D2L or other Distance Education technologies, please direct them to our support desk. 

Check out our easy one stop shop PDF resources. Our Getting Started General Resources and Getting Started Digital Learning Resources are great documents to add to your “Getting Started” module in D2L. They serve as quick references for your students to find out what’s available to them. 

Check out Distance Education's Quick Guide to learn how to make your digital learning materials accessible.

Interested in using video for your online courses? Here are some tools you can use to include multimedia content in your classes.

Check out our Self Registration classes on D2L! We have 2 classes available to help you learn more about online pedagogy, best practices, and using the digital learning tools we have to offer. 

As you may have already heard, live proctoring for Spring 2020 has been discontinued. For the time being, we are promoting unlimited "auto proctoring" through our proctoring vendor, Examity. Please stay tuned for a webinar from Examity on this new service.

All of our webinars will be recorded and posted to the webinar website. Please note that due to the increased volume in usage, Zoom recordings are taking longer to post. As soon as those are available, we will update the website accordingly. 

There are 2 ways to record with Zoom. Selecting the right one could reduce some of your wait time as Zoom is experiencing a high usage volume at this time. Please note- all instructional content should be transcribed! 

To learn more about Zoom, visit our website at www.apsu.edu/online/technology .

Faculty, we want to hear from you! Click on the photo below to take this quick survey and help us identify future training needs.