Engaging Students
Academic Council Guidance
“It is expected that non-WEB courses shall provide live engagement during the scheduled meeting times as defined by the Student Engagement Inventory for the course.”
“Live engagement can take many different forms… Whatever the mix, at least 50% of the live engagement should include planned and structured content delivery or discussion” and “instructors should be available to students during each scheduled class period.”
“Where appropriate and possible, instructors should create opportunities for student-student interaction.”
Reaching out to spring students
You can use the Canvas email feature to write to your students now. (Here's how.) In that message you might: make the human connection about understanding the disruption; let them know you want to work with them to make spring courses a valuable experience and a real chance to learn; express a sense of value in the class community as one way to be together in a time of uncertainty; convey...