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1.  Starting from May 16 to the end of this semester, all in-person learning activities, including lectures, lab courses, exams, and physical education, as well as the assignment submission are recommended to change to online. For clerkship rotation held in the off-campus institutes or hospitals, students shall follow the local regulation accordingly.

2.  Teachers may adjust their assessment methods by using online exam, paper reports, video reports, online demonstration of handcrafted works, honor exams without monitoring, or other innovative assessment to evaluate students’ learning performance.

3. Suggestions for online exams:

  a.  Questions/answers: (1) Teachers prepare the questions for students to answer on the E3 system; (2) Teachers upload the questions to the E3 system for the students to print out, and input answer on it, and then photo-submit to the E3 system.

  b.  Exam monitoring: Students need to prepare cameras or smartphones and turn on the video mode or use the webcam’s authentication of the E3 system while at an online exam. Teachers or TAs monitor all students at the exams via the video mode. The students need to stay in a quiet and bright environment at the online exams, and that camera shooting angles should avoid areas with test answers.

4. Oral defense for the qualification examinations and thesis defenses may be conducted online via video conference mode. The students need to choose the examination method on the Degree Examination Grade Sheet; no additional application is required in advance. All committee members need to participate in the online oral exam simultaneously, no substitute allowed. For the oral examination documents, each college(/department/institute) can determine whether the documents be handled in e-file (electronic signature) or by direct mail (paper copies). For in-person oral exams, thesis committee members and students must wear masks and keep social distance.

5.  For lab courses and practical operation courses, online streaming or offline video demonstrating the lab experiments is recommended. Regarding lab equipment without safety concerns, teachers may decide whether students can borrow the equipment and do the lab experiment at home. Students may show their experimental results online. After completion of lab experiments, all borrowed lab equipment should be sanitized after return.

6. Teachers should announce all adjustments to learning activities and assessments while maintaining the quality of teaching and learning standards.

7.  For technical assistance regarding the remote learning, please contact Division of Teaching Resources of the Office of Academic Affairs. 

   a. E3 learning platform for video storage

   b. 4K webcam, cameras, and tripods

   c. TA Training regarding the equipment and software for remote learning

   d. Check the following webpage for the manuals of equipment and software: https://aa.nycu.edu.tw/ddl/e-learning/

   e. Contact information: Email: dlcs@nycu.edu.tw (Yang Ming campus, Mr. Yang, office extension: 62101) (Chiao Tung campus, Mr. Ke, office extension: 31433)

8.    Popular softwares recommended for remote learning:

   a.  Synchronous remote learning for online broadcasting courses:

       i.            Google Meet (NYCU gmail account, 100 participants, no recording)

       ii.           Cisco Webex (1000 participants, online recording, account application: https://forms.gle/6kyvqb7ZctBFLYve9)

       iii.          Microsoft Teams (NYCU m365account, 250 participants, online recording)

   b.  Asynchronous remote learning for recording courses:

       i.            OBS opensource software

       ii.           Evercam

       iii.          PPT’s built-in recording with webcam