Remote Work Problems

Today's remote work problem: doing screencaps for a how-to walkthrough (Kaltura Capture in the event) and suddenly realizing that I just captured one of my "emergency soothing ZYL images" off to the side and now need to crop it out.

The Tunnelbear icon, I'm deliberately leaving in as a sort of easter egg for the technical staff who may be directing faculty to this webpage. We have to take our amusement where we can, especially with 150 hold-out faculty to turf out of the buildings by midnight as per Michigan's new stay-at-home order.

...shame we're not quite desperate enough for laughs for me to leave the image in, really.

ahahahaha ha

So, the university responded to the Michigan stay-at-home order by declaring that SPRING AND SUMMER classes will be fully online!

Recall, Umich in general and LSA in particular has zero support for online classes, zero preparation, zero faculty experience. Academic Innovation has, heretofore, been this weird little office that specializes in MOOCs and sometimes gets suddenly asked for way more help than they have people or materials to do by one of the professional grad programs.

But suddenly! All online courses, for Spring and Summer terms!

*makes mad little jazz-hands gestures, indicative of a powerful urge to rip someone's head off*

So! I'll just be over here condensing the whole twenty pages of the QM rubric into a two-page handout of recommendations. As one does. Ahaha.

*screams into a pillow*