You can contact the Office of Instructional Design at any time, if you have questions about course development.
Email: oid@docs.rutgers.edu
Contact Information
Recommended tools to teach remotely
Communicate with your students
Distribute documents and readings during the disruption
- Library Reading Lists
- Canvas
Collect student assignment submissions
- Canvas
Facilitate class discussions during the disruption
Make your lectures available to students digitally
Identify an option for holding synchronous sessions
Evaluate student work and learning
Best Practices
- 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, or a Page in Canvas).
- 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.
- Contact OID to schedule an appointment with an Instructional Designer or Instructional Technologist for any assistance or consultation you’d like.
- If you find something that works, share it with your colleagues!
Common Pitfalls to Avoid
- 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.
Register for Training
We are offering sessions that cover a variety of topics related to transitioning your course for remote instruction.
- Webinars that cover communicating with students, web-conferencing, sharing resources, and lecture capture (requires registration)