Keep Learning, Teaching, Working

See the Office of Undergraduate Studies Keep Learning website.

Go to Canvas

Canvas is the University’s online learning management system. Every course at UMD gets an online space within Canvas. You may hear this system referred to as ELMS-Canvas, which is the name the University has given to the Canvas system.

• Learn how to get started in Canvas as a student
• Download and use the Canvas mobile app

Go to Zoom

Zoom is a videoconferencing service that has been purchased for the entire UMD community, including faculty, staff, and students.

• Getting started with Zoom in Canvas for students

Pro tips for Zoom

• Log in and configure your Zoom account first before you use it in Canvas.

Go to Slack

Slack is essentially a chat room for your whole company, designed to replace or augment email as your primary method of communication and sharing. Its workspaces allow you to organize communications by channels for group discussions and allows for private messages to share information, files, and more all in one place.

• Create a Slack Workspace for your class
• Invite your classmates to your Slack Workspace

Note: Slack’s free plan limits message history to the 10,000 most recent messages. For most classes, this will be fine.

Campus-wide

See the Provost’s Keep Teaching website.

A. James Clark School of Engineering

See the Clark School’s Continuity of Instruction microsite.

See Division of IT’s Keep Working knowledgebase article.

Slack is essentially a chat room for your whole company, designed to replace or augment email as your primary method of communication and sharing. Its workspaces allow you to organize communications by channels for group discussions and allows for private messages to share information, files, and more all in one place.

• Learn how to create a Slack Workspace
• Learn how to get started in Slack

Zoom unifies web video conferencing, simple online meetings, and group messaging into one easy-to-use platform.

• Learn how to get started with Zoom

Google’s G Suite of applications (Docs, Sheets, & Slides) allows for realtime collaboration on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. As we work remotely, these tools may make it easier to collaboratively work on content that you would otherwise use Microsoft Word, Excel, or Powerpoint to create.

• Learn how to switch over to Google Docs from Microsoft Word
• Learn how to switch over to Google Sheets from Microsoft Excel
• Learn how to switch over to Google Slides from Microsoft PowerPoint

Significant portions of this wiki have been adapted from the Clark School Continuity of Instruction microsite (https://ter.ps/engrteach).