Updated academic protocol guidance (effective September 9, 2021) allows instructors to temporarily move classes online for up to 2 weeks if the number of students who are unable to attend class in-person negatively affects student learning.
Before any change in course modality, instructors must inform the department chair and notify the Registrar’s Office by completing the Temporary Instructional Mode Change Notification form.
Our advice for shifting modes: keep it simple.
Focus on the key components for your course during this time period and use familiar technology tools that are supported at UD. The pandemic taught us to think differently about location and time: your Canvas site can be an effective central meeting place, ensuring that all students have equitable access to your course content and activities.
This guide will help you identify key strategies for maintaining a quality learning experience for you and your students when shifting instructional delivery modes:
- Optimize your Canvas site.
- Organize your content, activities and assignments using the Modules tool.
- Create take-home activities using the Assignments tool.
- Continue in-class discussions asynchronously using the Discussions tool.
- Bookmark the Canvas Guide for Instructors.
- Add a Zoom link to your Canvas course, and then…
- Meet your students in Zoom.
- Use your scheduled class time to hold meetings in Zoom.
- Track Zoom attendance.
- Hold more frequent “student hours,” aka office hours.
- Make good use of learning videos.
- Create new videos using the recording features of Zoom, UD Capture Personal Capture, or PowerPoint.
- Consider editing and sharing existing video content.
- Review our list of best practices for using your own videos.
- Get help.
- Visit IT Academic Technology Services at the Virtual Welcome Bar, Monday-Friday, 8:30-4:30 or email ats-info@udel.edu.
- Outside of ATS operating hours? Find all of our support resources for Canvas, Zoom, UD Capture, and Instructional Design on the IT Academic Technology Services website.
About IT-ATS Instructional Design Services
We transform your teaching by following systematic, research-backed processes to turn your teaching ideas into reality. We bring our teaching experience and instructional design skills to deliver on our commitment to your teaching success. We embrace a team-based approach with Faculty Commons partners along with support professionals from around campus. Most of all, we help you build great Canvas courses.