We’ve received guidance from CUNY about recordings of our lectures. I’ve added the official CUNY language to our syllabus page:

Students who participate in this class with their camera on or use a profile image are agreeing to have their video or image recorded solely for the purpose of creating a record for students enrolled in the class to refer to, including those enrolled students who are unable to attend live. If you are unwilling to consent to have your profile or video image recorded, be sure to keep your camera off and do not use a profile image. Likewise, students who un-mute during class and participate orally are agreeing to have their voices recorded. If you are not willing to consent to have your voice recorded during class, you will need to keep your mute button activated and communicate exclusively using the “chat” feature, which allows students to type questions and comments live.

This doesn’t change anything for us, but let’s make sure everyone understands:

  • You never have to turn your camera on if you don’t want to.
    • My preference is that you turn your camera on during your one-on-one HOT topic presentations so I can see you working (I’ve been really happy to meet most of you this way during this week’s practice sessions!).
    • If you don’t have a camera or don’t want to turn your camera on during the HOT topic presentation, no problem; we can figure out another way to show me your work.
  • As announced, I will continue to record the COLD sessions and make the recordings available (but protected by a password available only to students). If you want to participate in the session but don’t want your contribution to be recorded, you can ask me in the Zoom chat to pause the recording.
  • HOT topics sessions are recorded but will not be made available to anyone unless the recordings are needed for some official college use in the future (for example, if the session gets Zoom bombed and the college has to report it).
  • Thursday study group sessions are being recorded for the same reason.