ICA 2020: Online Learning Guidelines

We are soon to experiment online learning. I have come up with a design to facilitate our
online classes that hopefully does not compromise on the level of interaction and feedback
that my students and I enjoy in a physical classroom. As all plans go, this too will not work
fully as intended. We will have to improvise as we go. The design I have come up with will
serve as a starting point for our experiment. I am sharing a few guidelines on how we will
start off. With your support, I am sure we can improvise to get a meaningful learning
experience.

Call Setup & Staying Connected

– Log in to the Zoom online class through your laptop/ desktop for best learning
experience; smartphone as the primary device is likely to be suboptimal for
learning
– Set your Screen Name in Zoom as Firstname Lastname (Roll#)
– Set the Zoom call to Speaker View
– Go into Mute by default
– Unmute only when you are speaking
– Your video should be turned on when you are speaking
– For technical issues on Zoom, contact PGP Office facilitator for ICA course

Learning Process
– We learn by discussing
– I will use a combination of talking, whiteboard and interactive presentations to
facilitate the class discussion
– There will be two modes of discussion in our class
▪ Interactive presentations: some of what I share on the screen will be
interactive, meaning, you can share your thoughts which will shape the
slides real-time; how to do that is covered in CP – Take 1; this is purely for
learning
▪ Class participation: We will discuss; covered in CP – Take 2, which is for
learning and grading
– During the class, if you want to ask a question, please click on Raise Hand in
Zoom – that’s when I am not asking for CP contributions (see CP – Take 2 for
raising hand to contribute to CP)
– At the end of every class, there will be a short survey (anonymous) on technical
aspects of the class just concluded; please share your responses
– As has been done for your first-year courses, PGP Office will run surveys on
content and delivery (course and faculty feedback) separately at the end of the
course, and the end-of-class survey will focus only on technical aspects of class
delivery

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Class Participation – Take 1
In a class devoid of non-verbal cues, I am trying to find out ways to access real-time
feedback from class. The CP Take 1 is my first cut attempt on this.
– As soon as you are set for the Zoom call, in a browser tab, go to VoxVote
participant site https://live.voxvote.com/?pin=46029&autosubmit
– Alternatively, you can download the VoxVote mobile app to your Android phone
or iPhone or iPad; I would recommend this option
– Enter 46029 as the event number the first time you use the app, and after that make
sure you are hooked up to this event number – that’s the event number for all ICA
classes
– Set the Nickname to First name Roll# – this information has to be accurate, so that
I can figure out who said what in CP Take 2 (for grading )
– Every time I call for inputs/ responses from the class, you will find a response
screen appearing on your VoxVote app or browser tab
– If the VoxVote app or browser tab does not refresh when I ask for inputs, please do
a forced refresh by clicking Reconnect
– Interact by providing your inputs as instructed
– You will see summarised responses visualised in real time, most of the time, and
we will use that to take the discussion forward

Class Participation – Take 2

This is the bread and butter of case-based learning. So please do CP, as you would have
done in a physical class.
– There will be several opportunities for you and your classmates to contribute to the
discussion – that’s when I ask a question and say, what do you think or something
like that
– Your VoxVote screen will refresh to show a free text field where you can key in
your CP and push it to me
– If you want to participate verbally (I would like that), do a Raise Hand in Zoom,
and right after that, go and key in your point of view into the VoxVote screen
– I will call out names – those called, please share your point of view succinctly – we
will all see you and hear you; even if you get a chance to speak, you may want to
enter your contribution in the chat window as well
– Those of you who don’t get chance to speak when you raise your hand – please
post your point of view in VoxVote – I will take this for grading CP, along with
audio-visual CP
– Visibility of CP inputs into VoxVote will be restricted to me, so don’t worry about
someone stealing your thunder
Happy learning!

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