Control
Room Operators
Your student control room operator is supervised by one of
our Network Control staff supervisors. Your camera operator
will post his/her name on the control room window and introduce
him or herself to you before the first class session. Your
operator will need to know your preferences (e.g. if you prefer
to take live phone calls at any point in the class or just
at certain times). Your control room operator performs the
following duties:
- Controls
Cameras and Instructional Presentation Sources
- Adjusts
levels as needed
- Alerts
you of incoming phone calls
- Alerts
you of beginning and end times (5 minute warning) for class
and recordings
If you
have any concerns about your operator, please inform a Network
Control Supervisor or Manager at networkcontrol@den.usc.edu
or (213) 740-0130 or OHE 100.
Live
Interaction
DEN students can call directly into the studio classrooms
with their questions during the course. You will hear the
student from the speakers mounted on the walls. Multiple students
can participate with the studios via phone conferences, teleconferencing
equipment, online chats, and desktop sharing applications.
In addition, several methods exist to allow your remote students
to control the instructional computers to do presentations.
These other conference options are not readily available and
must be requested ahead of time. For more detailed information
on interacting with your DEN off campus students, click
here. This link will also cover guidelines for teaching
classes with DEN students.
Five-Minute
Warning
Because we must maintain a tight class schedule, we will give
you a five-minute verbal warning prior to the end of class.
It is important that we take your class off-air at the scheduled
time in order to accommodate the next class.
Pretaping
Procedures
On occasion, you may need to set up a pretaping if there is
a conflict with your normal class time. There are also cases
where professors need to record an extra lecture session.
Contact any network control supervisor in OHE 100 or 213-740-0130
to schedule a pretaping or extra session. Pretapings are only
available to DEN courses. We will not honor any requests for
outside courses or departments.
Policies:
- A maximum
of two week's worth of pre-taped lectures may be used for
pretapings and extra sessions
- ISE
professors MUST get approval from the department chair before
scheduling a pretaping
- Network
Control will schedule pretapings and extra sessions according
to time constraints, room availability, and staffing.
- Please
be aware that a minimum attendance requirement exists for
all faculty, in regards to the class time listed in the
USC Schedule of Courses. DEN will not support the misuse
of the pretaping option and reports all pre-tape summaries
to Dean's office at the end of the semester.
Document
Support
If you have notes that needs to be posted online,
especially handwritten notes, you can drop them off with our
Document Support Center in OHE 142 after your class. Electronic
notes, such as Smart Board or Power Point that needs to be
posted online as PDF files can be saved in your class folder
on the instructor computer. These folders are networked and
provides access to the Document Support staff for getting
your notes. You must save these notes and put them in the
appropriate directory after class though. The Document Support
Center also handles all DEN student faxes for incoming and
returned homework. You should check OHE 142 regularly for
student submissions. Click here
to find out more information about the Document Support Center.
Online
Course Management System
Most of your classroom lecture becomes digitized and put online
in DEN's Online Course Management System. Course videos are
placed here as well as digitized notes. Instructors have control
over these online courses as well and can post their own notes,
announcements, etc. If you do not know or been assigned a
logon to this portal yet, please contact our administrative
offices at OHE 108, denadmin@usc.edu,
or 213-740-4488. You can get more information about DEN's
E-Learning Portal by clicking
here.
DVD
Archive Request
DEN can provide each professor with one DVD of his or her
course taught each semester. DVD's will only contain materials
captured by DEN for your course. These materials are restricted
to: Video lectures and course documents processed by our Document
Center. Contact the webcast department in OHE 118, call 213-821-1321,
or webclass@usc.edu
to request the copy. To
receive a DVD of a course taught by another professor, we
must get authorization from that professor. Make the request
to webcasting, and we will contact the professor for permission
to duplicate. |
