Day 1 Teaching your Course Online, The

Essentials
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L-Get students to be more engaged by giving them tasks and telling them that it will be shown/shared
with the class.

Having a microphone is essential because they can

hear your enthusiasm

Video- useful to make them feel like a real person

is there. Build engagement and community and
communication

Text chat- essential for bad wifi scenario. Enables

consistent participation. Build community

Screen share from the teacher is great.

Third party site to bemore dynamic. Eg. Share a

slide or document that all students can work on
simultaneously. More engaging.

Offline material should be distributed, This helps it

feel like a talisman of being part of a school
community

Enable thte students to communicate with one

another in real time.
Set up:
1. Teacher Video
2. Class text chat
3. Shared materials

YTC: SET GROUND RULES OF ENGAGeMEnT

Eg. Raise hands to contribute

Shorter chunks of text works better

Give students opportunities to comment in chat or

on mic.

Longer texts can be shared ahead of class

But this works if students are more advanced and a

focus is not a concern

Enable text chat or mic chats when they are all

watching a video individually at the same time.

te sense of community when they all comment on

the exciting thing is great

Have a way for students to write/aswer problems

in real time.

In zoom, you can use a white board feature.

To increase engagement:

Tell the students that you’ll be using their

submitted homework as a point for discussion in
class. This keep the students paying attention.

Teacher should guide the student to explain and

walk through the solution

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To increase enagement

To increase engagement

Also enables you to monitor who is struggling.

IN class, let them do their work and then show

their work. Helps build community.

More students are more comfortable to say things

on textchat than mic.

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Give them tasks and then tell them that they will
have to contribute/present later
If all students are on video, then the enhances a
feeling of community.

Set up a workspace where you can monitor their

work progress and communication.

Eg. Give them a link to a online doc/slide as a

collaborative space
Eg. and a breakout room to chat so you can see
what they are doing.

aHave the class come back after group work

OUTSIDE THE CLASS ROOM: Essentials

The LMS for WSS is Microsoft Teams.

Some typical features included in common LMS

are
Grades, assignments, schedules etc

*Schedule- is useful for them to know what’s

happening in each class
This schedule is designed with hyperlinks on
where they go to find things.

Eg they can use the link to listen to the pre-

recorded lectures (flipped learning), and in class,
they have discussion. At the end, they take the
quiz.

Example of a weekly schedule.

Another example of an LMS schedule so they

students know what they are doing for the week,
with link for class material

Create a centralized hub of a clean schedule of

the week. This is crucial. So your students can
easily find what they need for the class.
Set up office hours

Set up an calendly or an appointment scheduling

system for students to be able to contact you one
or one to talk about whatever.
This is important

Try to keep to one consistent platform

Naming conventions for student submissions

 Flip Learning
Make real-time meeting student focused and
highly interactive.
most ‘learning” stuff should be asynchronous and
independent.

Integrate the class activity with the videos/learing

material. Don’t let them just watch a video without
ever referring to it again or they will think it’s a
waste of time and there’s no accountability.

Just because you think a link a cool, it doesn’t

mean its useful to spam link.

it just overwhelms the student

Note to self:

First class- Community Building. Ask them about their hobbies etc. Orientate the students. Rule of the
class. How it will operate. If it is important to you that they are on video, then set that expectation and
keep following up on it. How to deal with late work. Set a culture of niceness by calling out nasty
comments in a nice way. Let them try a few pre set tasks, practice viewing videos and coming back
together to discuss. Break out into small groups to work on a collaborative space that will be shared with
the rest of the class. Get some students to share their working out and explain their solution walk
through. Show them where all the materials will be uploaded. Tell them that all their homework will be
shared with the class, and it forms part of pre reading. Where class materials will be posted, what they
will be doing in that week, especially on weeks where they are not meeting in class, where the central
hub is. Naming conventions for student submissions. Eg Last_First_AssignmentCode