Teaching in the Virtual Classroom: How is it different and what can I do to make it better?

Keeping a sense of balance is key when teaching online. Take advantage of strategies to boost your efficiency and manage your workload while establishing an engaging, effective learning community in your online course.

Learning Objectives

There are many aspects of teaching online that may appear similar on the surface to teaching on campus. However, as you start teaching online, you will discover there are significant differences that need to be handled in different ways. By the end of this module we hope you will be able to:

plan and manage different types of participation in your course
draft your expectations for your students and yourself in your course, and
develop a realistic plan to balance your time while teaching your online course.

Table of Contents

11.1 Teaching Online: Keeping Perspective

11.2 Teaching Online: Communicating with Your Students

11.3 Teaching Online: Group Work and Participation

11.4 Teaching Online: Thinking about Participation

11.5 Teaching Online: Resources for Teaching in a Virtual Classroom

11.6 Canvas Guides to Support Online Delivery