This guide was prepared for health outbreaks or pandemics. It provides recommendations for faculty on how they can prepare their classes and their students should an event arise. If this is a real emergency, Face-to-face and online workshops opportunities will be listed right below this sentence.
Planning Considerations for Faculty
When you have to move your course online quickly, consider doing the following right away.
1. Review your attendance policy.
If the President of Salem State University and/or the health authorities deem it necessary, the President may declare period of relaxed attendance policies. However, your course attendance policy stays in effect until there is a university declared critical emergency.
2. Make sure you can login to Polaris, SSU email, Canvas and your Library access at home.
Test your home system to make sure you can access these systems. Click here for preparation tests you can use to find out if you are prepared
3. Think about choosing a departmental “Pandemic Pal,” a colleague who might assist with your course in your absence and share with your students essential contact information, communication plans and alternative assignments.
4. Prepare a communication plan in case you and/or your students are unable to attend class on campus or the class is cancelled.
5. Identify alternate instructional plans
Review your course policies, alternative assignments, and communication plan with your “Pandemic Pal.”
6. Post the material on Canvas
Other Resources
Flu-Proof Online Tutorials
SSU Communciation tools
Flu-Proof Course Workshops
Recommended Format for Syllabus Statement for non-emergency times
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