Circular regarding teaching activities during June-July 2020

12.06.2020

In view of the current situation, the faculty are supposed to prepare digital content for
conducting the course online for the coming semester. The time available to us during the
current month June and the next month July 2020 should be utilised for this purpose.
Digital content shall include video lectures, study material, and assessments.

The activities mandated to be done during this period are as below.

1. Course Allotment for the coming semester needs top be completed by Heads of the
Departments as soon as possible.

2. Faculty should prepare Course outcomes (5 to 6) for the entire course, and also
prepare about 5 to 6 learning outcomes for each unit in the subject.

3. A set of Video lectures, Study material, and Assessments shall be prepared for
each learning outcome in a unit, and shall be submitted online to the respective
department head or a concerned person in the department. These shall be peer
reviewed and also reviewed by a committee within the department. Once the
reviews are okayed they would be accepted by the department.

4. Submission dates shall be specified in the departments to submit learning outcome

wise Videos / Study Material / Assessments

5. Unit wise deadlines are given for the entire college.

UNIT Deadline for completion (including review)

I 24th June 2020
II 03 rd July 2020
III 012th July 2020
IV 21st July 2020
V 30th July 2020

6. Faculty must ensure that the deadlines provided above apply to preparation,
review, and acceptance of the material in the department. Faculty who can
complete the preparation of material earlier may do so and submit on the dates
provided by the department.
7. A detailed schedule of submission dates shall be provided by the departments
along with day wise submission plan.

8. Day wise submissions shall be updated to the principal’s office by the

departments.

9. Guidelines for preparation of the material:

a. Videos: Each video must be for a duration of 10-15 minutes ONLY. Each
learning outcome may require more than one video. Hence there may be
more than one video prepared for each learning outcome depending on the
requirement. Videos shall include presentations with slides, or explanation
on board, or an audio showing text book or any other reference. Videos can
be recorded on mobiles/using google meet/ any other tool.

b. Study Material: Study material shall be prepared for the entire learning
outcome. Text book references (With units and page numbers), Other
Reference material (Like website links, online material, or any other),
material prepared by the faculty, pictures, presentations/slides, videos, etc.
The material must have been thoroughly referenced by the faculty during
preparation, and should also enable learning of additional content beyond
syllabus. Material shall be submitted in the form of pdf documents and a
list of links in a text file.

c. Assessments: Assessments shall be assignments/quiz/projects/any other

kind of assessments. Make sure that the assessment questions are at higher
levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy as the course progresses. All faculty are by
now familiar with Higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. If not, they may
contact their HODs for help. Each assessment must also have a rubric with
specific details.

10. Review of preparation material: The prepared material is reviewed by a peer

faculty in the department as well as an internal committee. Reviews of the material
shall be done with the rubrics provided below.
 a. Videos: Rubric for Videos (a set of videos for one learning outcome must
be seen together)

Video Not Acceptable Acceptable with changes Accepted (2)

(0) (1)
Video clarity Audio/Video Not Audio and video clear but Clear Audio and Video
clear has some pauses/ breaks in with continuous flow in
between the recording
Introduction No Introduction to Introduction without Introduction linking the
the topic connecting the topic to any topic to an earlier course/
prerequisite topic
Presentation of the No proper Explained well but the Presented with proper
material explanation sequence needs to be flow, required
changed/ very slow in explanation, and
explaining examples so that the
student can understand
clearly
Conclusion Ends abruptly Ends the topic but does not Ends the topic and gives
conclude or give closing closing remarks about
remarks what the student is
expected to do after
listening to the video

b. Study material: Rubric for study material

Not Acceptable (0) Acceptable with Accepted (2)

changes (1)
Content covered Content for the topic is Content is covered but Required Content is
not fully covered in no additional content covered fully and
the material is provided in additional resources
references are provided for
covering content
beyond syllabus
Quality of the Material All the material is Material consists of Material consists of
copied from websites faculty prepared faculty prepared
material, online material, online
references, text book references, text book
references only references, and any
covering the syllabus other references than
enable covering of
content beyond
syllabus
 c. Assessments: Rubric for assessment review

Not Acceptable (0) Acceptable with Accepted (2)

changes (1)
Bloom’s Levels Questions are not Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloom’s Taxonomy
marked for the levels levels are marked for Levels are marked for
in Bloom’s Taxonomy all questions but not all questions correctly
correctly
Quality of Questions All Questions are at 30% of the questions At least 80% of the
level1 or level 2 of are at level1/level2 of questions are at
bloom’s taxonomy Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloom’s levels 3 or
but the questions are higher and are
not interesting/ interesting enough to
motivating for the make the students
students to participate actively participate in
the assessment

All components of the Videos, material, and assessments must get a full score (2 for
every component) to be accepted.

With the above guidelines, the departments shall prepare the schedule for submissions,
and faculty shall start their preparation for the next semester.

Director

NMREC