Communicate Often

Create a communication plan.

How do you plan to communicate to students? (e.g. Announcements forum, Quickmail)
How often will you send out regular communication? (e.g. weekly, every Tuesday and Thursday)
Once you have a plan established, share it with students.

Remind students of upcoming assignments and due dates.
Provide a progress update – what have the students done already, and where are they going from here?
Highlight accomplishments.
Provide tips that will help overcome misconceptions.
Let students know when you have graded their assignments.

Make sure that students understand how to interact with the resources and activities you provide.
When are assignments due?
How will they be graded?

Course Support Forum – students can ask questions about content or assignments that can be answered by the instructor or other students
Prayer Requests – create a forum for students to share prayer requests with each other
For larger classes, separate discussions into small groups
Encourage students to use real-time collaboration features on Office365 or Zoom
Social Discussion – Just for Fun! - create a fun forum where you pose a question to the class. For example, what is your new favorite pass time now that we are practicing social distancing? Post a description, photo, or video.
Encourage peer feedback
Group projects are still possible. Student can collaborate using Office 365 products (Word, PowerPoint), create presentations together using VoiceThread, or meet via Zoom