One of the central challenges of remote teaching is finding ways to engage students with course work without the benefits of direct contact. Below are some resources for improving the quality of remote participation in a course.
If you are using a tool like Google Meet to host a live session with your students, there are still some challenges to keeping them focused and responsive. Here are some tips for improving the quality of synchronous sessions:
Tips for engaging students in synchronous online chats
In a remote discussion, many elements of the classroom environment are not available to shape the discussion. This guide takes you through an exercise of reimagining discussion in a remote environment:
Facilitating Remote Discussions: a guide for transitioning from in-person to remote class discussions
Kenyon's learning management system, Moodle, uses the Forum activity to host discussion threads. But there are different kinds of Forums; so, the CIP has written a guide to choosing the one that best suits your needs:
A guide to the different kinds of Moodle forums
Asynchronous discussions do not flow as naturally as face-to-face conversations, but online faculty have explored different kinds of prompts as ways to improve the quality of student responses:
A variety of types of discussion prompts
While studying remotely, your students will be interacting in unfamiliar contexts. Be sure to set some guidelines on how you expect them to treat each other:
A guide to netiquette (internet etiquette) for college courses