The EECS Undergrad Office sent a survey on Tue Mar 10 to EECS undergrads asking those who expected to have challenges working from home what those challenges might be.  Here are some key challenges that came up from the \~100 responses. Timezone. Some students will be in European or Asian timezo…

Everybody with an MIT username automatically has a personal WebEx meeting room at https://mit.webex.com/meet/. Students can use this without having to install any client; it just works from the web browser. Tell students to press the blue Sign In button in the upper right to sign in with their MIT ID (rather than …

Showcase: Underactuated robotics Camera: Set up a camera to record the lecturer plus one full board. If working, use a wireless microphone and plug into mic input on camera. Connect camera (HDMI, possibly usb3) to streaming computer. Presenting Laptop: Connect with streaming computer (HDMI). Youtube…

Camera: Set up camera to record lecturer plus one full board.  If working, use wireless microphone and plug into mic input on camera.  Hit record. When done, hit record again to stop recording.  Take out memory card and put it in laptop in order to download .MOD file to laptop. Presenting Laptop: Mac: Use q…

Google has lifted the limit on free Hangouts, which should now support up to 1,000 people if you host the hangout from your MIT G Suite for Education account.  Steps: Go to https://hangouts.google.com Click “Video Call” I shared the URL to the Hangout in a Piazza post. This URL should be persistent and wil…

MIT now has a site license for Zoom (as of Fri March 13).  According to IS&T, "The license MIT has acquired for Zoom provides faculty and staff the ability to conduct online meetings of up to 500 participants and other members of the MIT community the ability to conduct online meetings of up to 300 participant…