GoFlex

Introduction

In Fall 2021, over 100 classrooms will have new tracking cameras and ceiling microphones. These classrooms are called "hyflex" classrooms because you can simultaneously communicate with both students in person and students online via Zoom.  

GoFlex is a 5-day session that provides hands-on practice teaching in an actual hyflex classroom to both in-person and online participants.

Winter GoFlex 2021 

DATES: January 5, 6, 7, 11, 12
(W, TH, F, T, W, skipping Monday, January 10^th) 

GoFlex Topics & Schedule

• Defining ChicoFlex / Redefining “Normal”
• Building Community, & Engaging Students
• Engaging Students while Assessing Outcomes
• Designing an Inclusive Learning Environment
• Wrap-Up & Future-Forward

Check out the schedule-at-a-glance (Google Doc). 

View the detailed daily agenda with links to presentations and resources (Google Doc).

GoFlex Commitments and Payment 

Participant

• Must attend all 5 days.
  • Morning sessions in Zoom 9am to 12pm. 
  • Afternoon sessions, 1pm to 4pm, will be on campus in hyflex classrooms following COVID protocols with masks. 
• Faculty participants will take the online COVID training from EHS in order to be on campus and follow COVID protocols including masks.
• Faculty will learn and then practice in the afternoons using the hyflex classroom equipment and engaging with colleagues, acting as both in-person students and online students in order for all faculty to get the full experience of hyflex classrooms.
• Faculty will learn how to use tools for student engagement when having students both in-person and online.
• At the end of GoFlex, faculty participants will create a Zoom video summarizing what they learned from GoFlex and sharing strategies they plan to use in their teaching.

• Faculty will collaborate with colleagues, TLP, FDEV, and CTS to engage in sharing best practices, templates and surveys, assessing the impact of GoFlex and hyflex classrooms.

Payment for GoFlex Participants

$1500 payment in taxable income for the commitments listed above.

Mentors

• Must attend all 5 days.
  • Morning sessions in Zoom 9am to 12pm. 
  • Afternoon sessions, 1pm to 4pm, will be on campus in hyflex classrooms following COVID protocols with masks.  
• Mentors will take the online COVID training from EHS in order to be on campus and follow COVID protocols including masks.
• Mentors will meet with GoFlex Planning and Leadership team in advance to prepare for the GoFlex sessions.
• Mentors will lead a group of up to 15 faculty so they can gain successful skills and familiarity with teaching in the hyflex classrooms.
• Mentors will meet on a daily basis during GoFlex with the Planning Team to prepare for the following day with their cohort.
• Mentors will also lead discussions regarding the use of hyflex classrooms, pedagogy, tools, templates, surveys and the practice of teaching in the hyflex classrooms.
• Mentors will facilitate discussions and engage with the faculty cohort to get them comfortable with hyflex classrooms, assisted by TLP/CTS staff and student assistants.
• Mentors will collaborate with colleagues, TLP, FDEV, and CTS to engage in sharing best practices, templates and surveys, assessing the impact of GoFlex and hyflex classrooms.

Payment for GoFlex Mentors

$2000/session in taxable income for the commitments listed above. 

Leadership and Support Team

GoFlex will be co-led by Academic Technology Officer, Kathy Fernandes and Faculty

Development Director, Chiara Ferrari (in consultation with Provost Debra Larson and Vice

Provost Daniel Grassian) and supported by TLP, Classroom Technology Services and faculty mentors.