Title: 20 Tips to Facilitate Online Class Participation
Headings: 20 Tips to Facilitate Online Class Participation
20 Tips to Facilitate Online Class Participation
20 ways to boost online class participation
1. Make the guidelines clear
2. Familiarize yourself with your LMS
3. Make use of small groups
4. Create a light syllabus
5. Make sure navigation is intuitive
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6. Reward early answers with personal attention
7. Ask the right questions
8. Encourage debate
9. Give your lessons a sense of purpose
10. Highlight the purpose to reinforce it
11. Let students ask their own questions
12. Base exam questions on discussions
13. Watch for early problems
14. Ongoing, actionable feedback means the most
15. Keep cameras on during chat sessions
16. Use a variety of lesson activities
17. Use silent moments to chat
18. Follow up, follow up, follow up
19. Organize by due dates
20. Model engagement yourself
How do you improve online class participation?
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Content: 4. Create a light syllabus
You may not be teaching a heavy lecture course with pop quizzes or major tests every week. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a lesson plan that your students have access to. A syllabus can help lay out expectations for your students. It will inform them when they need to pay more attention, what lessons will cover, and how they can best prepare for each session or module. Engagement improves if students know what’s required of them ahead of time. There’s a strong link between an interesting but clear syllabus and higher student engagement. 5. Make sure navigation is intuitive
What sounds more encouraging: a system in which you have to struggle to locate your lessons, quizzes, and end up getting lost in a digital labyrinth just trying to find a way to contact your instructor?