4. Instructional Methods

Which instructional methods are a just-right fit for the learners you serve and the content you teach? 

The resources and tutorials on this page will help you make effective decisions here.

Facilitating Remote Learning

The workshops in this collection explore various best practices for transitioning to remote teaching. 


Learn more about synchronous learning practices by reviewing these workshops.


This workshop is divided into five segments in order to allow for more efficient viewing: 


These workshops introduce participants to the purpose, function, and tools that support asynchronous learning. 


This workshop is divided into three segments to allow for more efficient viewing.  


Listen in on a discussion, led by one of our Instructional Designers that is relevant to remote teaching with Blackboard Ultra.


This guidance document enables instructors to protect the continuity of instruction as they make unexpected shifts to remote learning. 


Creating and Sharing Videos Through Blackboard details the process that will help you make your course multimodal and increasingly engage through the use of diverse media. 


In this webinar, Angela Stockman introduces participants to best and next practices for facilitating learning remotely.  This is the accompanying slide deck.

Teaching in a Hyflex Environment

Peter Schilke offers insights and tangible strategies that enable instructors to work with students remotely while they are live on campus in this workshop: Preparing for a HyFlex Class. Here, you will find the slide deck.


The Leveraging a HyFlex Class workshop prepares instructors to leverage hyflex instruction to its fullest potential.  This is the accompanying slide deck.


In this workshop, Peter Schilke reviews procedures and practices that enable instructors to teach students on site and remotely at the same time inside a space that is not yet outfitted for hyflex instruction. 


Angela Stockman spends a few minutes sharing engagement strategies and tools for hyflex instruction. 


In this workshop, explores how to close a hyflex lesson in addition to recording and sharing Zoom lessons with learners. 

Quality Discussions

This workshop, explores best practices for effective discussion design and demonstrates tools that facilitate instruction.  


In this workshop, it is demonstrated promising practices and useful tools for managing engaging discussions during remote teaching.


In this webinar, a variety of approaches are demonstrated intended to help instructors decenter themselves and put students in the driver's seat for class discussions and deeper learning. This is the accompanying slide deck.

Improving Our Feedback

Angela Stockman explores promising practices and tools for Leveling Up Our Feedback in this workshop. This is the accompanying slide deck.