Get your tech ready

Working from off-campus

There are a host of tools that can help you work on classes while at home or when the campus is closed. Many are accessible from any device that is connected to the internet. These include:

Mobile apps for phones and tablets

The mobile apps are pretty good in their own right (iPad and Speedgrader are a great combo!) and also a good backup to your home computer. Set them up and test them out. 

Canvas Teacher: Canvas has a great app for instructors using Canvas, for both smartphones and tablets.

Canvas Student: This is handy to see how your course looks to your students. 

Panopto 

Zoom

Accessing the Internet

Our ITS department is working to get faculty--both full-time and part-time--the tools they will need to work from home, including laptops, webcams, and Internet hotspots. If you expressed your needs in the technology survey Links to an external site., great! If your needs have changed, revisit the survey and edit your responses. You may also want to email helpdesk@highline.edu and let them know you've updated your survey response. 

If you do not have reliable Internet access at home, Comcast has made its Xfinity wifi hotspots available to everyone for free Links to an external site., as well as offering free home internet with unlimited data through the middle of May.  To use Xfinity wifi hotspots, enter your zipcode on this page Links to an external site. to see their locations. Scroll down that page to see instructions on how to get connected.