Using Online Lectures in Your On-Campus Courses
For years, some faculty who teach both online and on-campus versions of the same course have used their online lectures as reference material in their on-campus courses. In some cases, they even replaced in-class lectures with the lecture from their online course. This was always a manual process that involved the assistance of CTL.
Starting in the first academic term, you can now use lectures from online courses in your on-campus class with the same course number without any assistance by CTL. When you create a class session, you will see an option to include a lecture from the online (.81) version of the course in that class session. You can choose to use the whole lecture, as is, or only use specific sections.
Students then see a "Lecture Materials" box very much like the one used in online courses. Students can see the same lecture video, and download the MP4, MP3, text transcript for each section of the lecture just as they do in online courses. The same set of rules applied to each online lecture in terms of what is downloadable apply to the display of the lecture on the class sessions page.
Faculty and TAs will even get the same report that exists in online classes which shows which students accessed each lecture, if they downloaded files, and so on.
There is one caveat to using this new feature: if you opt to not use all sections of an online lecture in a class session, the PDF for that lecture will not be displayed. This is because PDFs for online lectures in online courses are a single file of all sections in the lecture. If you opt to not use all sections of the lecture, the PDF will contain sections and content which you did not want to give to students. This will lead to confusion and potential problems in course content sequencing. You can, however, take the PDF from your online class, delete the pages which contain the materials you didn't want to show students in your on-campus class, and then upload that edited PDF to the Online Library. You can then even link that updated PDF to the same class session as the lecture.
We hope that those of you who teach both online and on-campus find this new feature to be very useful for both you and your students!