Summer Toolkit Series

 

  1. Getting Started -- Watch Recording; Slides PDF - This workshop is a survey of the best practices and university supported tools that will enable to you set the expectations for your course, ensure your course is equitable, communicate with your students, and provide information on resources for students that need assistance with using class technologies.
  2. Instructional Basics -- Watch Recording; Slides PDF - This survey workshop moves beyond Getting Started and provides best practices and tools, depending on the modality, suggests ways you can distribute course material, assess student learning, maintain academic integrity and host live lectures.
  3. Instructional Advanced -- Watch Recording; Slides PDF - This workshop will provide ideas, resources, and ways for students to demonstrate a skill, give an online presentation, encourage their learning and facilitate a lab remotely.
  4. Engaging Students -- Watch Recording, Slides PDF - As you continue to build your course it is important that you provide ways for students to engage in the learning process. This workshop will provide ideas and ways to personalize your course, help your students engage with the content and help them participate in a class discussion. The workshop will also provide tools and best practices for hosting and managing a simultaneous face-to-face and online audience.
  5. Supporting Success -- Watch Recording, Slides PDF - It is important that students stay involved in the course. This workshop will provide you with various ways to check student understanding of content, provide them quality feedback, ideas to help keep them motivated and involved in the course.
  6. Connecting Students -- Watch Recording, Slides PDF - Retention studies show that one of the major components of retaining students is that they feel supported, connected to campus and connected to each other. This workshop will provide information how students can work on group projects together successfully, ways they can connect with each other and you and the campus support resources available to them in the areas of academic support, physical and mental health support, and how to assist a student in distress.

Recommended External Webinars & Training

Best practices

  • The Key to Teaching Online? Rapport. This is a great recorded webinar providing practical tips for what you can do right now to help your students stay (or get) engaged for the rest of the semester. Available here.
  • Good Practice in Online Course Design: this webinar series, by the Association of College and University Educators, is a fantastic resource on areas like welcoming students, facilitating online discussions, and engaging students in readings. View recordings under "wrap up."
  • Getting ready for summer online classes? Check out this short article, "Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online" by J.V. Boettcher for some core online principles to keep in mind as you plan.
     

Contact Cyberlearning staff to be added to the "Preparing to Teach Online" course, a self-paced Blackboard course that gives an overview of best practices in online instruction.

Technology