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28.11.2022
Useful resources and training sessions
To help you prepare for fall semester, a new faculty development programme (training sessions on pedagogy, digital teaching tools, workshops and meeting sessions with the faculty developers of the Institute for skills and innovation), is provided, between December 5th and December 16th 2022, then between January 4th and January 13th 2023: :
- Training sessions on HE pedagogy and digital pedagogy: Teaching for the first time at Sciences Po, Designing a course, Diversifying activities, Facilitate a hybrid course, Make your class more dynamic with Wooclap, etc.)
- Workshops: Wooclap Advanced level - Sharing our practices, Assessment and grading
- Meet the team: faculty development team’s office-hours , Learning Lab (room S101, 13U)
Contact ici@sciencespo.fr for registration
- Using Zoom (Discovery level / Advanced level): tutorials below and, if needed, contact formation.zoom@sciencespo.fr for a training
- Getting to grips with the classroom’s screen (tactile functions, whiteboard) - in french, starting from January 9th 2023, contact: odile.coche@sciencespo.fr
- Using the pedagogical platform Moodle : first use? contact: odile.coche@sciencespo.fr (starting from January 9th 2023)
- Recording course content with RapidMooc (Paris campus) - in french: contact: odile.coche@sciencespo.fr (starting from January 9th 2023)
- Manage a hybrid classroom on the Paris campus: registration
- Manage a classroom on a regional campus: contact the technical manager of the site
To help you prepare for the start of the new academic year, we have created a Guide to Deploying Hybrid Pedagogy. In this guide you will find practical guidelines, information sheets and tutorials to help you design and deliver your courses.
The guides provided during last spring semester, Remote Teaching and Teaching Remote Classes remain useful and complementary to design courses which will take place exclusively online.
Important: Consult the legal information and cookies settings of the videoconference tool Zoom at Sciences Po.
Please note: all documentation provided is accessible via your Sciences Po email account firstname.lastname@sciencespo.fr and password.
For more specific information, do not hesitate to contact the pedagogical teams or the Institute for Skills and Innovation’s educational design and technology team at the following address ici@sciencespo.fr.
YOUR DIGITAL PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS
Below you will find tutorials to help you familiarize yourself with the Zoom web-conferencing platform, which you will use for virtual classrooms, classes given in hybrid classrooms, and meetings.
- The 8 points to check before starting a course on Zoom
- Connecting to Zoom - Watch the video (in French)
- Inviting your students to the virtual classroom - Watch the video (in French):
- Managing participants’ microphones - Watch the video (in French)
- Finding solutions to the most common audio problems
- Using chat messaging - Watch the video (in French)
- Sharing your screen with your students - Watch the video (in French)
- Creating a poll - Watch the video (in French)
- Enabling students to share their screen
- Recording your virtual class - Watch the video (in French)
- How to publish recording on Moodle or Google Drive
- Retrieve a video teaching material shared on Moodle
- Using the whiteboard
- Dividing my virtual class into sub-groups - Watch the video (in French)
- How to secure your virtual classroom (video in french)
- Delegating to someone else the right to schedule a meeting on your behalf (video in french)
- Delegating animation rights to a co-host (video in french)
- View registration and poll reports (video in french)
Download: Sciences Po backgrounds for Zoom
Any Questions?
- Please consult our FAQ "All you need to know about ZOOM (FR)"
- Or, if you have any questions about:
- how to use ZOOM, please contact ici@sciencespo.fr
- technical problems, please contact sos@sciencespo.fr
- data protection, please contact cnil@sciencespo.fr
Consult our tutorials:
- How to open a course on Moodle?
- Schedule an appointment for training on Moodle
- Moodle login guide
- Moodle starting guide
- Asynchronous communication on Moodle: “Forums”
- How to create an assignment on Moodle
- How to create a glossary on Moodle
- How to monitor your students on Moodle
- How to record and share videos with Moodle
- How to publish a recording made with the self-recording booth
- How to publish a recording made with Zoom
Contact: ecours@sciences-po.fr
Consult our tutorials:
- Create an account
- Create a poll
- Create a word cloud
- Create a brainstorming
- Create a quiz
- Make your class more dynamic with Wooclap
For training sessions, see the "Training sessions" section below.
Consult the information sheet Discovering Whaller
And the tutorials:
- Connecting to Whaller
- Creating and setting up a sphere
- Writing a message
- Join the Help sphere (in french, but question in english are welcome and will be answered in english)
Consult our tutorials
Consult our tutorials:
- Mastering the digital tools of the classroom (PDF, 585 Ko)
- Manage a hybrid classroom (video in French)
- Teaching in a hybrid classroom (role-playing videos: Choosing the right camera for the right activity and Including distant students during interactive times in the hybrid room) Log in using your email address prenom.nom@sciencespo.fr and your Sciences Po email password. If you are logging in for the first time, click on "register" at the bottom of the screen.
A range of training sessions on pedagogy, digital teaching tools and classroom equipment is offered throughout the year by the Institute for Skills and Innovation:
- Pedagogy (Designing a course, Teaching in a hybrid room, Diversifying activities, etc.):
contact: ici@sciencespo.fr - Making your course more dynamic with Wooclap:
contact: ici@sciencespo.fr - Using the pedagogical platform Moodle:
online session or face to face at 56, rue des Saints-Pères in Paris
first use? contact: odile.coche@sciencespo.fr
permanences : registrations - Getting to grips with the classroom’s screen (tactile functions, whiteboard) - in French:
28, rue des Saints-Pères à Paris
contact: odile.coche@sciencespo.fr - Recording course content with RapidMooc (Paris campus) - in French:
contact: odile.coche@sciencespo.fr - Editing videos:
online sessions or at 56 St Pères, Paris Campus
contact guillaume.aebi@sciencespo.fr - Manage a classroom on a regional campus:
contact the technical manager of the site
The video replay of January’s sessions on pedagogy remains available on Moodle (available soon in english). Log in using your email address prenom.nom@sciencespo.fr and your Sciences Po email password. If you are logging in for the first time, click on "register" at the bottom of the screen.
