Teaching effective online and hybrid courses requires advance planning, intentional course design, good communication, organization and a commitment to providing timely activity feedback to students.
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Communication
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- Consider intentionally setting your expectations and the tone for course discussions by providing students with interaction guidelines.
- Consider being active in the forum discussions. However, balance your interaction. Students need to have space to explore new ideas together, but they also need to hear your voice in discussion.
- Alternatively, instead of replying to individual discussion threads, record a video or post a written announcement providing feedback on broad themes and/or particularly significant points that came up in the discussion.
- Remind students to be encouraging to one another, even on challenging or heated topics, while also inviting them to analyze and debate.
- Connect personally with students to thank them for their contributions or encourage them to contribute in a different way. Point out interesting contributions and good work by participating in forums or sending an announcement (via the Announcements forum) and encouraging the class to read a particular post.
- Try to avoid giving points just for showing up in a discussion forum. Consider giving points for discussion forum posts that make meaningful contributions to the conversation and student learning.
- See Discussion Forums for more information about crafting effective forumsand examples.
- Grading options for forums
Asynchronous Activities Google Docs and Slides
- Google Doc and Slides can be used for individual and group assignments.
- Examples
- Collaborative documents to record group discussions
- Collaborative documents or slide presentations to showcase learning
- Templates to facilitate individual or group assignments
- Creation of Class Notebooks
- See Asynchronous Activities with Google Docs and Slides for more information and examples.
Reduce the Risk of Cheating
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