Communicating & facilitating activities

Communicating & facilitating activities

Addressing the new learning environment

Open a dialogue with your students by acknowledging their uncertainty and anxiety

Communicating with your students

Further student engagement with the course by establishing regular and meaningful channels of communication

Facilitating communication between students

Use Canvas tools and other resources to synchronously and asynchronously engage students in discussion

Listening to your students

Build meaningful, engaging interaction with your students, regardless of course modality

Holding office hours

Utilize technology resources to hold office hours that students find engaging and helpful

Creating & maintaining a sense of community in a course

Build community, and maintain it, with your students, colleagues and peers

Adapting your face-to-face teaching style in a hybrid or online setting

Maintain your own teaching style while adapting to new course modalities

Keeping students engaged in a Zoom class session

Generate interest and reduce distraction, regardless of where your students are located

Facilitating discussion in Zoom

Create interactive, synchronous discussions that build on your preferred teaching style

Using think-pair-share in online or hybrid environments

Learn strategies and tools to deliver this popular active learning technique in the online or hybrid classroom

Facilitating group work using Canvas

Deliver engaging opportunities for student collaboration using Canvas and other tools

Running lab activities

Incorporate virtual labs and other online activities to simulate the physical lab environment

Hosting guest speakers in Zoom

Invite guests from nearly any location to virtually (and easily) speak to your class