How To Attend Sessions Remotely

The default setting for ENG 202 is for in-person attendance, but you’ve got options. For Monday sessions, though, you can opt at any time to participate in the Zoom simulcast instead of attending in person (but you must follow the instructions below!). And for Wednesday tutorial sessions, students enrolled in sections 104 and 203 will attend tutorial entirely online (but you have to register for those sections for the whole term).

Monday Full-Class Sessions

My plan is to run all Monday full-class sessions in person with a Zoom simulcast running at the same time. If you attend using the Zoom simulcast, you still have to demonstrate your attention and engagement (and, ideally, participation). Here’s how:

  1. All students must meet the U of T minimum technical requirements for online learning (click here to see what those are).

  2. Our meetings will always be in the same Zoom room. Log onto https://zoom.us/j/98935372626?pwd=cTlMZWVnSU9Wbzh5UjQvWThOSlRKQT09 [Meeting ID: 989 3537 2626 | Passcode: gx6FbN] by 10:10am at the latest.

  3. One of our TAs will be running the Zoom session/camera during class: if you are having trouble seeing or hearing the action, alert the TA by direct message right away! If the TA can’t help you troubleshoot, then the TA will let me know there’s a problem so we can pause and sort it through together. If you cannot see or hear class, do not just let it slide—you’re expected not only to attend class but also to know what is happening (and you may be asked to answer questions during class, to show you are doing so)!

  4. The TA will share electronic versions of our course handouts via links in the Zoom chat. If you can’t access what is shared, again, let the TA know immediately—do not let it slide.

  5. You do not have to have your camera on if you don’t want to. I also recommend the “Turn Off Self View” function (try hovering your mouse over your own image to find it)—it will hide your image from yourself so you can attend better to others.

  6. You can log on under a fake name or nickname if you wish. If it’s easier for you to contribute ideas without your name being visibly attached to those ideas, that’s fine—but, of course, we can’t give you participation credit if we don’t know who you are. You may wish to inform your TA and/or Prof. Sergi privately about what name you’ll be using.

  7. I may project the Zoom room onto the classroom screen during our meetings, in order to conduct a poll—make your decisions about your name and image with that in mind.

  8. Use the chat window—but only about matters directly relevant to what we’re currently discussing in class. I’ll have my eye on the chat window throughout.

  9. Raise your hand! Participate! Use the Zoom hand-raising function to make sure we see you.

  10. MOST IMPORTANTLY: Be sure not to log off until you have gotten confirmation that the TA has received your Real-Time Comprehension Question answers at the end of class. You’ll be emailing your answers to the TA rather than filling out a worksheet; the TA will confirm receipt either verbally or with a direct message.

Wednesday Tutorial Sessions

If you wish to attend tutorials fully online/synchronously, you’ll have to be registered in sections 104 and 203, for the full term. (The other tutorial sections will be online only through Week 2, but then will switch to mandatory in-person attendance.) If you want online/remote tutorials, please enrol in 104 or 203 at the beginning of term.

Online Tutorials (sections 104 and 203) will be run by TA Joel Faber. Here are the links you’ll need to meet online with Joel:

Joel’s online classroom space: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81262551508 | Meeting ID: 812 6255 1508
Joel’s office hour appointments: https://appoint.ly/s/joel.faber/meet
Joel’s online office space: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/89249579887 | Meeting ID: 892 4957 9887

[Students who do not enrol in an in-person tutorial at the beginning of term, but end up having to quarantine, etc., can switch easily into one of the online tutorials, either temporarily or permanently—but, obviously, please do not use this option unless truly necessary.]