Ways of Being Present in Your Online (or Hybrid) Class--
Assumed--a discussion based class
Keep "office" hours--Letting your students know you're logged in at specific times will encourage them to send your course emails around this time.
Students will know that they can reach you in course email in almost real time. Some groups like chats--the day/night before an essay is due can be convenient. If your class doesn't seem to like chatting, you can still let them know that you're logged into the class for specific hours each week.
Send course Email messages at roughly the same time/times each week in which you make important announcements and critique the previous week's discussion posts, quiz responses, or other assignments and activities.
Give new or repeated information in a way that will help students to classify and group that information in helpful ways; or put another way, refer to earlier activities, repeat key terms, etc. Students become conditioned to expecting these messages and report that they find them useful.
(Tip: Keep this content in a word file--you might be able to reuse in future terms.)
Have some backup style exercises or activities ready to go (but perhaps hidden) in your discussion area. Assumed--a discussion based class
Keep "office" hours--Letting your students know you're logged in at specific times will encourage them to send your course emails around this time.
Students will know that they can reach you in course email in almost real time. Some groups like chats--the day/night before an essay is due can be convenient. If your class doesn't seem to like chatting, you can still let them know that you're logged into the class for specific hours each week.
Send course Email messages at roughly the same time/times each week in which you make important announcements and critique the previous week's discussion posts, quiz responses, or other assignments and activities.
Give new or repeated information in a way that will help students to classify and group that information in helpful ways; or put another way, refer to earlier activities, repeat key terms, etc. Students become conditioned to expecting these messages and report that they find them useful.
(Tip: Keep this content in a word file--you might be able to reuse in future terms.)
You might add to or use these in a Weekly Plan to respond to an unforeseen need or situation that develops. A good one for fw classes is to have students read, summarize, analyze student essays from previous quarters--
These are very helpful! Thanks.
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