A rapping professor. A cat in class. Pornography on Zoom. How coronavirus' online classes work at colleges
Mark Naison, 73, had just days to move online his decades-old class, a history of music from rock ’n’ roll to hip-hop. He wasn't sure how to preserve the raucous spirit of the course, but he had an answer that had worked for him in the past. The technology, mainly the video-streaming software Zoom, was unfamiliar to him. Without a physical presence in the classroom, the professor at Fordham University wondered how he would keep his students’ attention.
As for the rapping videos, “they actually make you laugh, and I think that’s what we kind of all need right now with everything going on,” she said. Story continuesFor many of those colleges, the first week was anything but smooth. Along with the transition to digital classes, universities told students to clear the dorms. Many scrapped traditional grades in favor of some form of pass-fail. Graduation ceremonies are canceled or postponed.
In one online class, a yellow catFriday morning, five College of William and Mary students – some of them in focus, others a bit blurry – followed along via Zoom as Professor David Feldman drew economic models on a whiteboard. He asked periodically if the class could see the board. They nodded yes as he continued drawing.
After an hour, their cameras snapped off. For Feldman, digital lectures allow him to provide almost all the information he would have been able to share in person. That's not representative of higher education as a whole, he acknowledged.A dance or auto mechanic class, for example, wouldn’t translate in the same way.
Within Zoom, he said, someone had posted pornography on a shared screen. Racial slurs followed shortly after. The person responsible remained disruptive, Castle said, by swearing and harassing students in the chat channel. Eventually, the professor gave up. About 15 minutes in, she apologized and canceled the class.
"For context, we have about 1,000 scheduled classes on Tuesdays this semester, Carleo-Evangelist said."Given the short turnaround, we are incredibly proud of how well our faculty have risen to the unprecedented challenge of so quickly converting their classes to remote instruction." Juggling child care, missing graduationsBeyond technical challenges are the disruptions to a person’s life caused by the coronavirus.
For the most part, the students seem to grasp the tweaks to the class, she said. One emailed her to ask if she was using the course's message boards correctly.
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