Building Classroom Community - Center for Teaching and Learning
Building Classroom Community
- Develop a welcome video to discuss class structure, policies, format
- Post an activity in Bb like a scavenger hunt in the course to help orient to the Bb site
- Have students introduce themselves to the class on the Discussion Board
- Balance “camera on” and “camera off” time in Zoom
- Use the chat feature so that students can ask questions and actively monitor it
- Schedule both synchronous and asynchronous online class time
- Create a virtual environment that mirrors the F2F experience as closely as possible (class discussions, questions and answers, group work, student presentations)
- Use the hand raise feature to keep students engaged in the conversation
- Use the whiteboard feature in Bb collaborate
- Try some Peer Review of virtual group work
- Appoint class leaders to lead discussions in break out rooms if class size is larger
- Play music during informal Q & A
- Use the Share File feature in Collaborate