Teaching during times of potential disruption requires creative and flexible thinking about how faculty can support students in achieving course learning outcomes. This page offers suggestions for faculty at Durham College looking to continue offering a student-centered learning experience in an remote learning environment.
Check out these tips for remote course deliverables and synchronous delivery!
Communicating
Communicating with your students
- Post an announcement in DC Connect
- Resource: How to create and post an announcement
- Send an email to students
- Resource: How to email your class
Looking for exemplars communicating with students? Check out this link from the Association of Colleges and University Educators Online Teaching Toolkit. And, don’t forget to share your revised learning plan!
Content/Presentations
Presentation/Lecture
Synchronous (Live) Session
- In Zoom meetings, all attendees (host, co-host, and participants) can share their screens by default. You can use Zoom meetings to allow students to become the 'Presenter'
- Resource: Sharing your screen or desktop on Zoom
Recorded
- Record your PowerPoint
- Resource: How to Record Your PowerPoint Slide Show
- Record yourself on your phone or computer
- Resource: How to record using your phone or desktop
- Resource: How to post to DC Connect
- Capture a Screen-recording
- Resource: Create Your Own Screen-capture
- Consider using other educational technologies
Demonstrating a skill
- Record yourself demonstrating the skill on your phone or computer
- Resource: How to record using your phone or desktop
- Resource: How to post to DC Connect
- H5P Studio
- Look for simulation resources online to use in your course
Student Engagement
In-Class Discussions
Synchronous (Live) Session
- Host a Zoom Meeting
- Resource: How to access and use Zoom
- Use Microsoft Teams to Enable Class Collaboration
- Resource: How to use Microsoft Teams
Asynchronous Discussion
- Use Discussion Board on DC Connect
- Resource: Discussion Board
- Create a web - or grid - of video discussions
- Resource: FlipGrid
- Consider using other educational technologies
Here is a link from Western Carolina University that provides some tips of designing effective discussion questions.
Assessments
Unsupervised (Open-Book)
- Use Quiz tool on DC Connect
- Resource: Creating a Quiz
- Consider using other educational technologies
Looking for some alternate ways to assess other than a final exam? Check out this link from Brock University.
WEB-SECURED
- Use Respondus Lockdown Browser in DC Connect
- Resource: How to create a quiz in DC Connect
- Resource: How to use Respondus Lockdown Browser in DC Connect
- Resource for Students: How use Respondus
- Consider using Assignment submissions and enable TurnItIn
- For example, if you have a quiz with long answer questions, this could be made into an assignment and submitted through Assignment enabling TurnItIn
- Resource: Using TurnItIn
Presentation
Synchronous (Live)
- Host a Zoom Meeting
- Resource: How to access and use Zoom
- Use Teams to Have Live Student Presentations
- Resource: How to use Microsoft Teams
Asynchronous Presentations
- Students submitting video projects to faculty on DC Connect
- Create a web - or grid - of video discussions
- Resource: FlipGrid
- Use Discussion board to share videos to the class
- Resource: Discussion Board
Student Resources
- DC Connect Assignment/File Uploads and Submissions
- Access Microsoft Teams
- Resource: How to Join a Team and a Video Meeting