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Student Engagement and Community-Building Online

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Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Student Input and Feedback

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Active Learning During Class

Building in Reflective Discussion

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Student Engagement and Community-Building Online

HOME

Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Student Input and Feedback

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Student engagement is essential in a remote classroom, where it is especially important to cultivate the socio-emotional bonds among students and with their instructors that support student motivation and success. Each tab provides engagement strategies that address both teaching scenarios to consider in the planning and delivery of a remote course.

Active Learning During Class

Building in Reflective Discussion

Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Assign roles during each class discussion. For example, assign a student to initiate the class’s discussion with a question, quotation or example; assign a student to wrap up discussion, identifying key ideas, themes or additional questions; or, ask a student (or TA if appropriate) to monitor the Zoom chat for questions or comments and share them with the class.

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Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Student Input and Feedback

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Active Learning During Class

Design activities or assessments that require student interaction throughout the semester. An instructor can use group work or projects, peer review and/or peer instruction, student presentations, class debates, and discussion forums in online courses. Students can present, discuss, or debate using Zoom during live sessions or record presentations and responses that students can watch asynchronously.

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Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

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Provide multiple means to contribute to class discussion. Include speaking, hand raising and/or emoji use in Zoom, chatting privately, publicly and/or anonymously, and via written or recorded work.

Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Student Input and Feedback

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Active Learning During Class

Partner in-class students with remote students for discussion or group work in a HyFlex classroom. N.B. This option may require headsets for in-class students to minimize feedback.

Building in Reflective Discussion

Facilitate an open-ended, informal discussion or live office hour for students to talk and ask questions before class, during class or as an extra session. Record this meeting to share with students who could not attend.

Student Input and Feedback

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Exit interviews: ask students to provide brief feedback, which can be anonymous, about the lesson in the last five minutes of class.

Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Student Input and Feedback

Generate a word cloud using a site like https://www.polleverywhere.com/word-cloud to brainstorm, pool and visualize existing knowledge about a particular topic or concept in the class in real time.

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Active Learning During Class

Building in Reflective Discussion

Use polling, administered with the polling feature within Zoom or via MS Forms, to conduct a quick comprehension check for important concepts or during lecture-heavy classes.

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Student Input and Feedback

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Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Use audio or video recordings to provide feedback on assessments, study guides for exams, and other content such as announcements, as some students report finding these media more accessible.

Student Input and Feedback

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Active Learning During Class

Building in Reflective Discussion

Conduct a mid-course survey to collect feedback on student experience of the course’s content and delivery. MS Forms, for example, includes an option to set up anonymous responses.

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Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Create a “water cooler” for students, using a discussion board or course page for students to post questions, make class announcements and to schedule optional “sync session” meetings that are also recorded for students not in attendance.

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Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Student Input and Feedback

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Require student contributions to a class discussion board that are incentivized by a participation grade and a weekly calendar for posting and responding to others’ posts to generate a routine of engagement.

Active Learning During Class

Building in Reflective Discussion

Conduct a structured, asynchronous class debate by dividing the class into small groups.

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Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

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Plan a virtual gallery walk for students to present independent research and for peer evaluation. Using MS PowerPoint to embed videos, an MS Doc containing links to video or slide presentations, or a series of recorded screencasts hosted in Canvas, students view the presentations of classmates and provide written or recorded feedback.

Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Student Input and Feedback

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Active Learning During Class

Set up a “carousel” activity, also called station brainstorming, using MS Docs or PowerPoint: develop a set of questions, problems, or prompts to distribute to each “station” or web document, then assign students to rotate among this series in small groups, along with a deadline to then respond to the answers developed by other groups

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Active Learning During Class

In a Zoom or MS Teams classroom, use breakout rooms for peer instruction and group activities.

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Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Organize an interactive activity during class using breakout rooms and support documents set up in advance.

Student Input and Feedback

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Active Learning During Class

Use student-generated questions to guide class discussion.

Building in Reflective Discussion

Collaborative note-taking: Set up a space for students to write alongside the course’s lectures, using a shared Microsoft document.

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Building in REflective Discussion

Ask students to free-write about a class topic or a general reflection at the start of class, and invite them to share via chat or reading their reflections to the group.

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Planning an Engaged Remote Classroom

Student Input and Feedback

Discussion pause: Give students time to think and reflect on the discussion so far, encouraging them to write down new insights, unanswered questions, summaries of main points, etc.

Asynchronous Engagement Strategies

Active Learning During Class

Building in Reflective Discussion

Start class or a section of a lesson with a “silent meeting,” as students sit alone with course materials, followed by small group discussion on their work via breakout rooms.

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