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Library Instruction - Fall 2020

Library Instruction

The SUNY Broome Library has adapted its instruction program to protect the health and safety of faculty, staff and students during the pandemic. While we love to have students filling our building and using our resources, and we love to be able to help them in person, we can’t do that at this time in a safe manner. Instead, we are offering library instruction online. We will work with you to determine the best ways to meet the needs of your students.

To Schedule Library Instruction

  •     Contact either Paul Bond, Library Instruction Coordinator (607-778-5239), or
  •     Contact the Librarian whom you are used to working with, or
  •     Complete our Library Instruction Request Form

Please let us know at least two weeks ahead of time for scheduling and preparation.

Online Instruction

Blackboard Collaborate

You can bring a librarian into a Blackboard Collaborate session to work with your students. Blackboard blocks guest access by default for security purposes, so it needs to be turned on. In the Course Room, click the checkbox for Guest access. Once that is done, you will see a Guest role and a Guest link. You can leave the Guest role as Participant. Copy the Guest link URL and email it to the librarian working with your class.

Image of how to enable Guest Access in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra

Embedding a librarian

We can work with your classes online in Blackboard. We will discuss the objectives with you, and develop a plan which we will review with you. Then we can schedule a week in which we will join your class and work with your students.

To add a librarian to your Blackboard course as an instructional partner, use the Enroll Users function and add your librarian with the role of Librarian, as shown in the image below.

This role will allow the librarian to add content to your course and participate in discussion forums.

Zoom co-host

You can bring a librarian into a Zoom class as well. In order to enable screen-sharing, you will need to make the librarian a co-host. Here are the Zoom support directions:

Account
To enable the Co-host feature for all members of your organization:

  1. Sign into the Zoom web portal as an administrator with the privilege to edit Account settings, and click Account Settings.
  2. Navigate to the Co-host option on the Meeting tab and verify that the setting is enabled.
  3. If the setting is disabled, click the Status toggle to enable it. If a verification dialog displays, choose Turn On to verify the change.

Using co-host in a meeting
There are two ways that you can make a user a co-host.

During a meeting:

  1. Hover over a user's video.
  2. Click the more icon .
  3. Click Make Co-Host.

Using the participants window:

  1. Click on Manage Participants in the meeting controls at the bottom of the Zoom window. 
  2. Hover over the name of the participant who is going to be a co-host, and choose More.
  3. Click Make Co-Host.

Once a participant has been made a co-host, they'll have access to the co-host controls.