Student Engagement with Course Material - Center for Teaching and Learning

Student Engagement with Course Material

• Call on students by name to answer questions or respond/react to lecture
• Use visual props
• The power of visuals in online learning
• Ten types of visuals content you should use to increase learner engagement
• Use Polling (PollEverywhere, PollDaddy, Flisti, Micropoll)
• How to increase student engagement with polling
• Six reasons why you should use polling in your classroom
• Polling students to check understanding
• Use Kahoot and other interactive quizzes to make learning assessment engaging and fun.
• Have students complete daily journals to show progress
• Develop quizzes to go along with the videos you ask students to watch.
• 8 Free Interactive Video Tools to Impact Student Learning
• Introduce each week’s topic with a short video
• Provide a “Homework Help Day” (vs “office hours”) via Zoom or Collaborate.
• Use “chunking” to break down recordings of lectures into a series of short videos.
• Post support resources for students (eg. Khan Academy or high quality videos that demonstrate key points of learning)
• Hide “Easter Eggs” in the course material