One week down, almost all online

[branchandroot]

I have made it through the week, and without even trying to strangle any of our instructors through the ethernet wires! In the course of a week and a half the uni has: stopped in-person classes, tried to send most staff remote without actually closing campus, turfed the students out of dorms and back home, acquired a second paid subscription for videoconferencing (Zoom on top of Bluejeans, and they'll be paying for Conferences soon if I have to hold a knife on the end of a six-foot stick to them to do it), and declared pass/no-record grading. I have answered avalanches of email with really basic instructions that are already posted on the teaching remotely webpages I wrote two weeks ago.

Next major step: haul the remaining 100 or so instructors who are still coming to campus to lecture to empty seats so as to be recorded by our Lecture Capture system, out of the goddamn classrooms. Hopefully /before/ the state lockdown order comes through. Kaltura Capture is not /hard/, it's about three clicks on your computer to record and two more to upload, but you'd think we were asking them to do surgery or something.

That's for next week, though! Now is the weekend! Now is the time for a pile of really indulgent home-made nachos and a twelve ounce margarita!

Comments

[darkemeralds]

You are doing the lord's work--if you'll pardon the religious allusion. Or if not, you are being a champ.

[branchandroot]

Can I have both? Both is good!

[ephemera]

All strength to your elbow (both for the task at hand, and for lifting that well-deserved margarita!)

[branchandroot]

I just had one of the 100 insist that pushing a big red button on his computer to record himself is INSANELY COMPLICATED and he'll keep hauling his 70 year old butt in to campus. *headdesk* I may need two margaritas.

[libitina]

You deserve ALL the margaritas!

[branchandroot]

It has been Margaritaville all day, and I feel /much/ better.

[dancing_serpent]

I admit I don't understand why people still insist on leaving the house for work when they have other options right now. I would love to work from home, dammit!

[branchandroot]

Crossing fingers that you'll be able to, or at least be put on administrative leave or something!

But seriously, 90 year old emeritus prof, still coming onto a /college campus/, known plague pit! *headdesks a lot*

[dancing_serpent]

Yeah, not going to happen, I don't really have a desk job. And even when I'm writing invoices, I still need to take the physical items (books, music scores) in hand. Which is a lot of fun, usually, but not something I can do remotely from home.

At least we all have single room offices, and because we store about a million books there's a lot of space. No need to get super close to any of my colleagues. *sigh*