Checklist for teaching online
When teaching online, consider the following teaching approaches and remote options.
Lectures
- Record and post a video of your lecture using Kaltura Media
- Host a live online class using video conferencing
- Upload content to your myClass (Blackboard) course
- Annotate or narrate lecture notes using voice-over in PowerPoint
- Link to existing online content (including Open Education Resources, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering, and others)
- Use the myClass (Blackboard) Discussions tool for class discussions
Tech tip: If you plan on teaching synchronously through web conferencing (TLC supports video conferencing), avoid delivering three-hour lectures online. Instead, break lectures into 20-minute blocks with time to write notes, read, reflect or discuss with others. It’s difficult to sit through an online presentation (or deliver one) for lengthy periods of time.
Hands-on activities (e.g., labs, tutorials, seminars, field trips, design labs)
- Provide raw data for virtual data analysis
- Post online simulations, collections or demonstrations for discussion, critique, analysis
- Provide external media files or links for virtual analysis
- Have students submit video or digital recording of their presentations or performances using Kaltura Media
Group projects and group work
- Break large classes into smaller online groups using myClass (Blackboard)
- Use Office 365 for student collaboration, if available
- Provide options for students to meet virtually (e.g. video conferencing)
- Student video recording or digital sharing of projects/performances
- Structure peer feedback using the Discussions on myClass (Blackboard)
Communications
- Contact your students through the myClass (Blackboard) Course Message
- Post announcements for all students in myClass (Blackboard)
- Update your course outline, email it to your students, and upload it to your myClass (Blackboard) course site
- Hold virtual office hours using video conferencing
- Create a FAQ in the myClass (Blackboard) Discussions Board
Assessments and assessment options
- Use the myClass (Blackboard) Test tool
- Explore online assessments such as group projects, reflective writing, written or photo essays, research reports, critiques, simulations, scenarios or case studies presentations, Portfolios, Wikis
- Have students upload documents for grading using the myClass (Blackboard) Assignment tool
- Set up the Grades Center in your myClass (Blackboard) course site, and connect items to assignments
- Have students submit video or digital recordings of their performances, presentations, or projects utilizing Kaltura Media
- Add a rubric to your assignments to help grade quickly
- Provide digital (audio, video, or written) feedback on student assignments