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Pandemic Legacy: Checklist for Fully Online Learning

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Last updated: Sept 14, 2021 by Sonja Grussendorf
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Readiness Checklist

This checklist will help you ensure that you have everything in place to deliver effective online teaching and learning. It is hoped that by going through this checklist, you will feel reassured that you are providing the best possible support for your students if teaching needs to move fully online. The majority of questions contain links to further guidance, should you need it.

Maintaining Contact and Engagement

  • Does my Moodle course have an Announcements forum? The announcements forum is useful as as a one-way broadcast channel that will reach all students; ideal for circulating important course information.

  • Does my Moodle course display contact details for course convenor and other class teachers (e.g. name, position, telephone, email, office hours et al.)? 

  • Do my students know who to contact within the department if they have any study issues?

  • How to gauge engagement.

Lectures

  • Do I have "Teacher Editor” access to edit my Moodle course? If you are a Teacher Editor on your Moodle course, you will be able to see the 'Turn editing on' button at the top of the screen, overlaid on the course image. It is also possible to toggle editing on/off from within the Administration block in the left hand navgation: Administration [BLOCK] => Course Administration [MENU] => Turn editing on

  • Does my Moodle course have up to date lecture notes or presentations? If not, you can learn how to upload files to your Moodle course. 

  • Are the lecture notes/presentations on my Moodle course easily located (grouped and placed in an appropriate section and named correctly)? 

  • Do I use meaningful and descriptive titles for all my links and resources on Moodle? For example, it is not meaningful for students to read "Lecture 10". Instead "Lecture 10: Cold War Perspectives" is more meaningful. You might also consider adding a short summary description.

  • Do I know how to add a link to my last year's archived lecture recordings to my current Moodle course? 

  • If I wish to record and publish an audio/video narrated presentation, am I registered as an instructor on Echo360?  

  • If I wish to record audio/video narrated presentations, do I have a microphone and webcam (for video) either attached or built into my home computer? 

  • Ensure that links to recordings are published to Echo 360 and links made available via Moodle. Do not link directly to Zoom recordings!

Seminars / Collaboration / Group Discussion

  • Does my Moodle course have a discussion forum course activity? If not, do I know how to set up a discussion forum in Moodle? 

  • Have I set clear expectations for my students on how discussion forums will be used, including purpose, contributions and frequency of moderation? 

  • Am I planning to use Zoom? If yes, remember that Zoom sessions will need to be scheduled and links need to be added to your Moodle course(s) as it’s not possible to automate this. Please see the detailed "Getting started with Zoom – Checklist" for more details of this and other Zoom considerations.

  • Consider how students with poor internet connections can contribute to a class/seminar. Consider which activities could be engaged with asynchronously.

Office hours/Tutoring/Project/PHD Supervision

Individual Student Activity

  • Does my Moodle course contain an up to date reading list?  

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