Category: Online Synchronous

May 20, 2021

Icebreakers for Your Zoom Classrooms

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the era of synchronous online learning, it is important to create a community of learning. Using icebreakers can foster communities, promote positive teacher and...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Online Synchronous/Teaching

March 31, 2021

Working With Mark Pushback and Course Concerns from Students

Reading Time: 4 minutes Thoughts by Kathryn Brillinger on the challenges of ensuring clarity on expectations and building rapport with online and remote students, and suggestions for responding to students who push back on the marks they receive.

Categories Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/Online Synchronous/Rubrics and Marking/Teaching

March 12, 2021

10 (+1) Tips for Supporting International Students (and Everyone Else) While Teaching Online

Reading Time: 5 minutes Kathryn Brillinger, Nasreen Sultana, and Laura Stoutenburg of Teaching and Learning, and Thomas Campbell and Kavya Adapala from Student Engagement.  Keep the Welcome Going Work on a big, warm welcome each class. Students will...

Categories Diversity/Online Synchronous/Teaching International Students

February 19, 2021

Breaks in the In-Person and Synchronous Online Classroom

Reading Time: 4 minutes “For each class, faculty will […] [e]nsure breaks occur during the lesson time to support student needs.” – Course Delivery Procedure (January 2021)  Breaks are...

Categories Hybrid/In-person/Online Synchronous/Teaching

January 29, 2021

How our Online Synchronous Workshops Benefit a Trades Faculty’s Students

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sheri Copplestone teaches Computer Applications in Conestoga’s School of Trades and Apprenticeship, and facilitates the Entrepreneurial Program for Newcomers. She is also involved in the...

Categories Faculty Stories/Online Synchronous

January 18, 2021

Exam Proctoring in Zoom

Reading Time: 3 minutes Advice for proctoring live online exams and tests using ID checking strategies

Categories Assessing Learning/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Rubrics and Marking

January 18, 2021

Our Observers Share Teaching Advice

Reading Time: 8 minutes Tips from those providing Developmental Observations for effective teaching

Categories observations/Online Synchronous/Professional Learning/Reflective Practice/Teaching

January 15, 2021

Bring Your Best: Advice from Faculty on Online Synchronous Teaching

Reading Time: 3 minutes Tips suggested by faculty in a workshop, “Bring Your Best to Remote Teaching”

Categories Faculty Stories/Hybrid/Online Synchronous/Reflective Practice/Zoom or Teams

January 13, 2021

Boost Engagement with Zoom Text Chat

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ideas and tips for using text chat to boost engagement and clear communication during remote synchronous meetings

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Hybrid/Online Synchronous/Zoom or Teams

January 7, 2021

Silent In-Class Reading Time

Reading Time: 4 minutes If one goal of your class meetings is to promote thoughtful, lively discussion among students, then it can be useful to think about ways to...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/In-person/Online Synchronous