Remote Teaching Toolkit

You can contact the Office of Instructional Design at any time, if you have questions about course development.
Email: oid@docs.rutgers.edu

• Communicate clearly, fully, and frequently with your students--there’s no such thing as over-explaining. Summarize all of the changes to your course in a dedicated space (such as in an email, Announcement, a Page in Canvas, or a Lessons Page in Sakai).
• Notify students immediately if any additional changes to the structure are to take place.
• Encourage your students to contact the Help Desk if they are unfamiliar with Canvas or Sakai.
• Contact TLT to schedule an appointment with an Instructional Designer for any assistance or consultation you’d like.
• If you find something that works, share it with your colleagues!

• Holding synchronous online sessions during a time in which the class doesn’t normally meet.
• Extending class time or time commitments beyond what the class would typically require.
• Increasing the amount of the work students are expected to do.
• Compressing a normal workload into a shorter amount of time (this may affect students’ ability to successfully achieve the objectives).
• Adapting the course in a way that makes your TA work more than their allotted hours in a week.
• Significantly altering the grading scheme or weights of assignments.

We are offering sessions that cover a variety of topics related to transitioning your course for remote instruction. Separate sessions are offered for Canvas and Sakai.

• Webinars that cover communicating with students, web-conferencing, sharing resources, and lecture capture (requires registration)

Schedule an individual appointment