You can still put some good out into the world from their couches. Multilingual students can serve as webpage translators, empathetic listeners can volunteer with 7 Cups, and sighted students can download Be My Eyes to lend a hand — er, eye — to blind and visually-impaired.

You can find more opportunities below.

• 25 Volunteer Jobs to Do from Home
• Online Volunteering

Plus, the local non-profit groups that your campus usually partners with and the philanthropies that student orgs support may also appreciate virtual help. Reach out to see how you can continue supporting their work.

• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems! Join Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence at Home for a live daily doodle lesson at 12:00pm CST. Videos will be available after live on the Kennedy Center YouTube channel.
• Join the McHarper Manor weekdays on Facebook for a daily art project tutorial. Art projects will range from watercolor paintings to chalk art to canvas painting and will take place live at 12:00pm CST. Videos will be available after the live class on the McHarper Manor Facebook page.
• Missing group fitness classes or going to the gym? Check out the Planet Fitness Facebook page for live-streamed daily workouts several times a day or Fitness Blender for free at-home workouts. Is Yoga more your thing? Check out Yoga with Adriene to keep up your practice from the comfort of your living room.

Experience the best museums from NYC to France to Seoul in the comfort of your own home. Check out these sites to go on virtual tours of different museums and specific exhibits.

• The Louvre
• National Gallery of Art
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
• Van Gogh Museum
• National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
• British Museum
• Google Arts & Culture

• Go on a virtual field trip to Ellis Island
• Take a live look at Colonial Williamsburg
• Tour England through this 360 video
• Virtually discover Yellowstone National Park
• Talk a walk on the Great Wall of China
• Check out the view from Pompeii through Google Maps
• Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover

Lions, tigers and bears, oh my! Just want a cute and cuddly distraction? Check out several different animal live cam options from watching silly sea otters and curious elephants or just mellow out to the hypnotic drifting jellyfish.

• San Diego Zoo
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
• Atlanta’s Zoo Panda Cam
• Georgia Aquarium
• Ouwehand Park Polar Bears
• Houston Zoo

• Have everyone contribute to a collaborative playlist. You could even have a Playlist of a Day, inviting everyone to listen to a set of songs together.
• Dedicate some time each day or week to virtual dance parties. In the morning, get energized by tweeting out a video of a catchy pop tune. Or in the afternoon, stay awake with a quick digital dance-off to the best boy bands, show tunes, or the fight song.
• Pick a film or TV show that can be streamed for free from Vudu or Tubi.
• Share your favorite YouTube video. By setting a time limit of five minutes or less per video, you can encourage folx to savor a quick laugh, a bit of inspiration, or some animal cuteness — without much of a commitment.
• Whose line is it anyway? Yours! Many improv games can be slightly adapted to work well virtually, including One Word Story, Convergence, and 5 Things.
• Word puzzles are a great mix of rewarding and challenging. You can find numerous premade ones online, or better yet, create your own word search or crossword puzzle.
• Use a tool like Kahoot or Quizziz to challenge your friends to a fun round (or two or 50) of trivia. You could get creative with themes that are either serious (such as national news, politics, and institutional history) or wacky (like types of pasta, famous Instagram cats, and memes.)
• Get board, not bored. Students can join multiplayer board games through Pogo, Tabletopia, Bingo or Poki. Score!
• Use an online karaoke catalog like Karafun, SingSnag, or Smule for an off-the-charts competition. Or, you can simply search for karaoke versions of popular songs on YouTube.

• Check out the 25 Most Interesting Webcams of 2018
• Print off a free printable coloring page from the “Color Our Collections” campaign with coloring sheets from over 100 museums and libraries from around the world.
• Online Music Festival with concerts from various artists
• Tour a National Park virtually
• Watch a Broadway musicals from the stage at home
• This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs
• Walkthrough the Boston Children’s Museum thanks to Google Maps! This virtual tour allows you to explore 3 floors of fun.
• Check out the Met Opera to see performances streaming at 7:30 PM each night.

• Effective Wednesday, March 11, 2020, UH classes, including lectures, seminars, discussions or presentations, were canceled through March 21^st and as of March 23^rd UH will suspend face-to-face instruction, lectures, discussion sessions, seminars and other similar classroom settings, and move to remote instruction until further notice. We believe it is important that we consider the same for student organization meetings and management. As a result, all student organizations should refrain from meeting in person when possible and should not make any meetings mandatory for any members. If you have to have essential meetings for organizational business purposes, virtual meetings are preferred. The University offers Microsoft Teams through Office 365 within your AccessUH. This is a free option for UH students to meet virtually and conduct their organizational business. In terms of organization business such as elections and voting, our engagement platform, Get Involved, allows student organizations to conduct elections virtually or create forms for surveys or to compile information.
• While completing classes remotely, students may choose to return to their permanent place of residence or return to campus where appropriate social distancing and enhanced preventative public health and hygiene measures will be actively encouraged. Students should make the choice that is best for their own personal situation.

The University of Houston has a lot of really great resources for student organizations to continue with organization business, even though we are relying heavily on social distancing at this time. Below are a few options for organizations to utilize during this time.

Get Involved is our number one resource for student groups to continue their business! With options like document sharing, elections, forms, news, etc. students can continue to stay in touch and conduct important and critical functions for their organizations. Get Involved can be found as an icon in your AccessUH.

Microsoft Teams is another option for organizations to stay connected. Using Teams, groups have the option to video chat, share files, schedule meetings, and keep track of the progress of projects and activities. To set up a Microsoft Team, a student can select Office 365 from their AccessUH, log in and select Teams from the menu of options.

Once the student opens Teams, they can click Create a Team at the top right, and they will select Other for Clubs.

Students can then engage in a multitude of ways. We encourage you to add your members and click around to see the different features!

If you have questions or would like more information on how you can use these tools let us know.

As we are fast approaching election season for student organizations, we felt we should share the process for hosting elections online. This method can relieve some of the pressure of attempting to hold elections in a meeting where some may be unable to attend, especially in this time of social distancing. The Elections feature can also be used for small voting opportunities like picking t-shirt designs or voting on the best meeting date or time.

Through the Elections feature you are able to add as many ballots as needed, and also add items such as photos, platform information, or other pertinent voting information. You are also able to display an alert on your organization’s homepage which will provide a direct link to vote and will be removed as soon as the elections are over. When you set up your elections you are provided with a link that you can send via email if that works better for your group.

When viewing results, you can view based on the total number of votes cast or the total number of voters. Voting is completely anonymous and cannot be tied back to a particular student. You can Export the votes into Excel or you can view the snapshot of the results in Get Involved.

For more information on how to conduct an election through Get Involved, click here!

• The University of Houston is currently refraining from all international travel and domestic business travel. UH is restricting all international travel and business-related travel that requires university funds or approval at least until the end of April.
• If you have traveled internationally you will need to self-quarantine for 14 days. This applies to all travel, personal or professional, since February 25, 2020.
• Register yourself on the university’s COVID-19 website if you have taken or will take any international travel – professional or personal—since January 31, 2020.
• We strongly urge extreme caution and judgment for your personal domestic travel, with particular attention to known outbreak areas

• Effective immediately, all events scheduled to occur between now and the end of April, must be rescheduled, canceled or virtualized. This includes student organization meetings, events, volunteer projects, workshops, and retreats.
• Evaluation of meeting, event, or retreat necessity should be discussed with your organization advisor or a CSI staff member.
• If you have questions or concerns regarding your event please contact your student organization advisor and additional questions should be directed to the specific area for your group.

• • General Student Organizations
  • CFSL
  • Club Sports

Many community agencies that host groups of volunteers or educational opportunities have already canceled the opportunity until further notice. If an organization has not made that decision, you must abide by the university policy that all events with more than ten (10) attendees scheduled between now and the end of April must be rescheduled, canceled, or virtualized.

• If your organization attempts to move forward with a prohibited event or travel you will forfeit use of any university funding to cover event or travel expenses.
• If your organization was allocated university funds and has expenses for items that are unable to be returned or be reimbursed please contact the allocating body (i.e. Activities Funding Board or Council for Cultural Activities) for more information on how to move forward.

As always, please practice social distancing to help prevent the spread. Keep a distance of at least six feet between yourself and another person; practice proper handwashing; avoid touching your face; cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, and stay home if feeling sick. Please reference the CDC website for additional prevention guidelines.

For up to date information and resources visit www.uh.edu/covid-19/. Please continue to check daily for email updates regarding this very fluid situation. If you have a question related to the university and COVID-19, please email coronavirus@uh.edu.

Please feel free to contact us at csi@uh.edu with any questions or concerns you may have regarding the Center for Student Involvement. We understand this is a trying time for everyone, and we want you to know that we are here to support you as we navigate this difficult and ever-changing situation.

The Center for Student Involvement