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Home » Faculty Services » Faculty Learning » Online Teaching Tips » 5 Steps to Getting Started with Teaching Online

5 Steps to Getting Started with Teaching Online

Step 1 — Organize

  • Look over your existing course and organize your course materials into topics and subtopics
  • Organize supporting material (presentations, notes, readings, tests) mapped to topics
  • Build out calendar of events and due dates

Step 2 — Develop

  • Decide if you are going to deliver pre-built video and textual content or just textual content. And build content that maps to the topics identified in Step 1
  • Review eSAIL’s faculty webinars & tutorials for different modalities
  • Consider accessibility

Step 3 — Engage

  • Plan for student engagement using discussion boards, formative assessments, and alternative assignments
  • Develop a communication plan
  • Plan for online office hours

Step 4 — Finalize

  • Build course in Canvas
  • Invite students to the course and communicate

Step 5 — Teach

  • Teach, engage, communicate
  • Gather feedback and cycle feedback into next iteration

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