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Once students begin interacting with the subject online, facilitators can focus on moderating and providing feedback as students engage with the weekly content and assignments. This requires a lighter touch yet also demands vigilance as some students will need to be drawn out whilst others may dominate. Teaching strategies may need to be refined and more personal as students take on active content discovery for themselves and learn at different paces.
Offering varied ways of providing feedback, asking probing questions, engaging in reflective activities, and using video to communicate with a class will all enhance your online teaching. Instead of just covering content for a student, turn your focus to unpacking and applying content with the students. Remember, your personal perspective, in-depth knowledge of the subject, and connection to the learner is what brings the course to life.
Tips
- Make your communications personal and human (use their name)
- Be clear about your availability and how long you will take to respond
- Make sure your course includes an accessibility statement and uses inclusive language
- Use announcements (welcome, weekly, close)
- Use synchronous sessions to interact with students in real time
- Create, manage, monitor and participate in forum discussions
- Use Zoom video or audio podcasts to mix up the delivery
- Use Canvas chat to answer quick questions
- Use interactive quizzes to test knowledge and progress
- Use social polls to gauge opinions
Useful resource collections
- Master video conferencing with our resource collections on Zoom and Microsoft Teams
- For more information on using Canvas chat and social polls, explore our Communicating in Canvas collection
- Mastering the art of facilitation in virtual classrooms (Navitas 2018)
- #CanvasChat: Community of Inquiry Model in Practice (Instructure 2020)