A live discussion will be held at various points throughout the semester, beginning with a syllabus review in the first week. Your instructor will communicate dates and times of additional sessions that will be held prior to exams or special projects, as applicable to the course. Sessions will not be held outside of these dates and times unless a special request is made by students. Sessions will be conducted using either the Big Blue Button platform located on the "conferences" page in the Canvas classroom, or instructors may also choose to webcast using the Panopto platform, in which case a link will be provided. All sessions will be recorded for those who cannot attend or who wish to playback the session.

Live Discussion Session Times: TBD

Directions on How To Access Your Synchronous Session Time:

Canvas Conferences

Big Blue Button:

Within the Course Menu on the left side of your screen is a button called "Conferences."
Click on the "Conferences" button.
Under the topic "New Conferences" you will see a title for the meeting today and a "Join" button when the conference is ready to begin.
Click on the "Join" button when it appears.
Especially the first time you access a live discussion time in Canvas, you might see an invitation for Adobe Flash Player to access your camera and microphone. Click "Allow."
If applicable, follow the directions to test your Audio Settings. Then click the button, "Join Audio."
You will now join the meeting.
Upon commencement of the discussion, the instructor will invite questions and end the session when all questions have been addressed.
To communicate with your instructor and/or with your classmates, use the Chat window on the right side of the screen or use a microphone headset to speak with other participants. You will have to request microphone rights from the instructor to use this feature.
Recordings will be available in the archive section of the "conferences" page.

Panopto Webcasting:

Instructors will create and post a link for each webcast session.
Access the live session by clicking on the link at the time of the webcast session. Students will be prompted to login to Panopto using their Canvas login. Make sure the drop-down feature shows Canvas/Panopto Integration. If it only shows Panopto, students will not be able to access using their Canvas login.
If the instructor has not started the session, the screen will indicate so.
Once the session begins, students will be able to hear and see the instructor. Students will communicate using the chat feature by clicking on "questions" on the left side of the screen.
The instructor can only use audio to communicate with students and students can only use the chat feature.
Students can make comments by clicking the "comment" section on the left side of the screen. Additionally, students can take notes using the "notes" feature on the left side of the screen. Notes will appear only to the specific user and will not be made public. They will be viewable during the recorded playback.
The same link used to access the webcast will be used to play back the recording.

Tips:

Canvas Guide: Conferences.
For the first session, it is a good idea to arrive 10-15 minutes early to your conference to make sure your audio and video are set up.
You should have your sound on and volume turned up so that you can hear the audio portion of the presentation.