One week down, almost all online

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!