Flexible Teaching

Thinking about how to best combine on-line and on campus teaching.

In today’s evolving educational landscape, flexibility in teaching is key. This resource hub provides practical guides to help educators seamlessly integrate online and in-person instruction. Whether you’re enhancing digital engagement, setting up interactive learning spaces, or optimizing your lecture recordings, these road maps, use cases and quick-start guides will support your journey toward more dynamic and effective teaching.

Roadmap 1: Repurposing Pre-recorded Lectures

How to transform your on-campus teaching to an online or blended format.

Roadmap 2: Creating New Video Lectures

Transforming your on-campus teaching to an online format by recording brand new lecture videos.

Roadmap 3: Streaming Live Lectures

Conducting and delivering live-streamed lectures for online teaching.

Support

If you are affected by a change of classroom and you need help, book an Assistant (TA) here.

Write us to get additional support: flexible-teaching@epfl.ch.

Join us for a drop-in session

If you have any questions or concerns about the transition to flexible teaching, please drop by on this zoom link during the following times:

If you already have video recordings of your course: 22nd April 2025, 11:00
If you do not yet have any video recordings: 23rd April 2025, 13:00
If you want to live stream your course: 24th April 2025, 9:00
General drop-in sessions:
- 22nd April 2025, 11:30
- 23rd April 2025, 13:30
- 24th April 2025, 9:30

We will also have additional session in the following months. For new dates and times please check this page.

Zoom link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67907371936?pwd=Ii7esDCb8EBIXrDmE38Hwrf5hdJHdF.1

Documentation

Lecture recording

Home studio

Published:03.04.25 — Choose your technical setup and get step by step instructions to configure the tools needed for high quality recordings at home.

Lecture preparation and (pre-)recording

Published:03.04.25 — Prepare your lecture material for recording and discover the steps involved in pre-recording your lectures.

Hardware considerations when streaming from campus or home

Published:03.04.25 — Which microphones to use from where ? How to connect the wireless receiver ? Find out what you need to teach on campus to 1/3 while streaming to 2/3 of remote students.

Teaching with an iPad

Published:03.04.25 — Discover a colleague’s experience when teaching with an iPad and Goodnotes as a blackboard replacement.

Using a tablet to handwrite and annotate

Published:03.04.25 — Find out the different options to connect your tablet in parallel with your laptop to handwrite or annotate slides in your ZOOM session.

Using Kaltura Capture to record lessons from your laptop/tablet.

Published:03.04.25 — Learn how to Record lectures is quickly and easily with Kaltura Capture. This guide explains how to install and setup Kaltura Capture on your laptop and how to upload recordings directly to your Kaltura mediaspace.

Video editing

Published:03.04.25 — Get started with simple video editing to get the best our of your lecture recordings.

Add the EPFLGraph Video Player to your course

Published:03.04.25 — Add the EPFLGraph Video Player to your Moodle course and support your student’s revisions.

Live sessions

ZOOM Essentials

Published:03.04.25 — Updated. Discover how to setup your ZOOM account, application and schedule meetings.

Setting up breakout rooms in ZOOM

Published:03.04.25 — Breakout rooms allow you to create separate groups in a meeting, e.g. for discussions or problem-solving. Get step-by-step instructions about how to setup breakout rooms in ZOOM.

Setting up student group work

Published:03.04.25 — Discover how a colleague used ZOOM breakout rooms to set up student group work. Use it for example during your lecture for remote students.

Combining pre-recording with a live Q&A session

Published:03.04.25 — Learn from colleagues’ experience about how to combine pre-recorded lectures with fruitful live Q&A sessions.

Discussions

Using Ed Discussion to run exercise sessions and live lectures at EPFL

Published:03.04.25 — Learn how to setup and use the Ed Discussion forums for your exercise sessions and to run live Q&A and polls during lectures.