Online Teaching Resources

Communicate with your students frequently. Cultivating a sense that you are present with the students in a meaningful if non-literal sense is crucial to successful online teaching.

Focus on learning outcomes even if you need to adjust the specific activities that contribute to those outcomes. Keep students moving toward those outcomes. Avoid “busy work.”

Prioritize course activities and focus on delivering the ones with the most significant impact on learning outcomes.

Maintain normal course scheduling as much as you can. Try to hold synchronous activities to promote community, but please don’t penalize students who cannot participate due to time zone differences, poor internet access, or similar factors. Additionally, you should schedule synchronous activities during the normal class time to avoid putting students in the untenable position of having to choose between simultaneous activities for different classes.

Convert synchronous activities into asynchronous activities to ease scheduling challenges, as long as the new asynchronous activity promotes the same learning outcomes.

Rearrange course activities if needed to delay those activities where face-to-face interaction is most crucial.

Replace physical resources with digital resources where possible. Remember that students who are not on campus will not have access to the library, and some will lack access to their course textbooks.

Use tools that are familiar to you and the students, to the greatest extent possible.

Additional Resources:
Teaching with Zoom