Hybrid teaching refers to synchronous live sessions in which both in-person and online students are taught simultaneously.
Hybrid teaching relies on technology being set up to allow online students to hear and see what is being taught in the room. This is not possible in all rooms. You will need to consider how students, both in-person and online, can participate actively in a session, for example, via a poll or by asking questions, and whether your session can be recorded.
Some central teaching spaces are set up to support hybrid teaching. The room a session is timetabled in will impact on the way in which remote participants can interact.
For a full list of rooms and whether or not they are equipped for hybrid, see the list of Central Teaching Spaces.
Interactive hybrid equipped rooms
Equipped for two-way interactive audio and video conferencing
A number of medium and large central teaching spaces are equipped for interactive, video-conference-based hybrid teaching. Here, the in-room audio and video can be shared with remote students via a synchronous collaboration environment such as Collaborate, Teams or Zoom, and remote students will be able to speak to the room.
IT Services information: Using a fully-equipped video conferencing enabled Central Teaching Space.
Small teaching spaces (under 30 seats) and most non-centrally managed spaces are unable to stream a video feed or record automatically. Unless otherwise stated on the Central Teaching Spaces page, these rooms will not have fixed equipment for hybrid. If hybrid teaching is required in these spaces, it may still be possible to set this up by bringing peripherals such as USB microphones and webcams and plugging them in at the start of the session.
These peripherals can be requested from IT services – please discuss this with your school manager first as some schools are preparing bulk orders.
This means that these rooms don't have an automated method of streaming, and have no fixed equipment for hybrid. If hybrid teaching is required in these spaces, staff will need to set this up with peripherals such as USB microphones and webcams which they will take to the room with them and plug in at the start of the session.
These peripherals can be requested from IT services – please discuss this with your school manager first as some schools are preparing bulk orders.
For more information on how to set up your own webcams or microphones, see Connecting a USB Microphone to a UOB teaching computer for DIY streaming.
