To Do - Communication Choices
Having read the panel about communication, you might want to think about how to use digital to foster frequent and timely contact with all students. Work through this communication choices checklist and consider the "lurkers" and the communication options available to encourage their participation.
1. How will you introduce yourself and connect with course participants? (Tick all that apply to you)
- I do not need to introduce myself
- I’ll write a pre-course welcoming letter
- I’ll have a brief bio on the LMS
- I’ll supply a picture / avatar to display in activities
- I’ll record a video where I introduce myself / activities
- I’ll write regular emails to students during the course
- I’ll check in, connect and comment with students during the course
- I’ll reflect about my course experience within other
- I’ll post about the experience on my social media account
- Please specify other if necessary
2.What information should you provide to students? (Tick all that you intend to provide)
- Instructions about how to start the course
- Instructions about how to navigate the course
- Instructions about how to locate various course components
- Expectations about appropriate netiquette
- Instructions for submitting assignments
- Wikis /discussion boards with little contribution from you
- Wikis / discussion boards with significant contribution from you
- Solutions to homework assignments
- Worked examples (text, pencast, or other format)
- Previous years’ exams
- Animations, video clips, or simulations related to course material
- Lecture notes (partial / skeletal or complete)
- Presentations (partial / skeletal or complete)
- Articles from scientific literature
- Please specify other if necessary
3. How do you plan to interact with students? (Tick all that apply to you)
- The course is self-study and no interaction is necessary
- I don’t think that the students need to interact with me
- Expected guidelines about interaction is clearly communicated
- I have online office hours and students can interact with me then
- Students can interact with me via discussion boards / wiki
- Students can interact with me via email
- I will be hosting a webinar and students can interact there
- Students and I will be interacting right throughout the course
- Please specify other if necessary
4. In what ways are students expected to engage and communicate with each other on your course? (Tick all that you would like to see on your course)
- Student to student engagement is not part of the course
- Students could opt to engage with each other
- Students are expected to engage with each other on the LMS
- Students will have to engage and work together in groups for marks
- Students will work together as teams on whole class projects
- Please specify other if necessary
5. What kind of co-operation and collaboration do you expect when creating your online / hybrid course?
- I will be doing this ALL by myself
- I will project manage the course production process
- I will use and adapt colleagues’ course materials
- My departmental course materials will be useful
- External service providers will add expertise
- A range of different role-players will work together