Dear teachers, I'm Jitka Daňková from the Information System.
In this video I'll be talking about consultations with students.
Did you have consultation hours with students coming over to your office?
Because of the rector's vacation and cancellation of the contact teaching
you are no longer able to do so.
Let's take a look
at how you can communicate with your students in a different way.
Firstly, think thoroughly about
what is manageable and realistic for you.
Set rules and send them to your students through group e-mail
with information about the way and in which cases they can contact you,
for example someone can prefer email communication,
because they can deal with it after they put their children to sleep.
For bachelor and master thesis consultation you can use conference call.
Presentation of team project can be done through Skype
or use mutual support of student through Discussion groups,
which are automatically created in IS for each course
and students see new posts through application Student.
Choose wise amount of individual consultations
which you are able to execute,
especially in courses with large amount of students.
Use tools that you know and have experience with.
Let's take a look at example of using Skype
for video consultation with students.
Skype is a part of university's Office365 account,
many of you have it already installed,
it is called Skype for business.
It automatically searches for the students
and suggests you their names.
Find a student and call them,
ideally in the time you both agreed on in advance.
In case of team consultation
you can add another student
using button in the upper corner of the screen.
You can also use regular Skype, if you have it installed.
Important thing is to use technology you and students already know,
and later with gained experiences
you can experiment with more advanced tools.
Skype for business have advantage
in separating work calls from private.
Another student appears in separate block.
In case of thesis consultations
or team project consultations
you can let students show you presentations, graphs or images
with their commentary using desktop sharing.
At the address is.muni.cz/samostudium
you can find more detailed instructions and specialized tools,
tips and contacts on user support.