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This is a space to collect resources for the UChicago Philosophy Department dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak. I will post here periodically as I find useful resources.

The University's site for updates is https://coronavirusupdates.uchicago.edu/.

The University's site for remote teaching resources is https://teachingremotely.uchicago.edu/.

New posts will appear soon.

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With the big increase in use of Zoom there is a new phenomenon, nicknamed "Zoom-bombing," where outsiders get into a Zoom session and post unwanted content -- including pornography and racist slurs, among other things. This can be incredibly disturbing and destroy a meeting. There are a number of articles online about how to prevent this from happening. One good idea seems to be to use a separate meeting ID for each meeting and pair it with a password. Another is to now allow anyone but the host to share their screen. Here is a blog post from Zoom on how to avoid Zoom-bombing. Most of the articles I have seen online about this seem to recycle the same ideas.
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