Fostering Student Engagement Remotely

Session Description

This workshop from the UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching offers hands-on exploration of strategies for using technology to foster active learning and student engagement in remote courses. Participants will learn how to maximize the use of Zoom breakout rooms and gain practical experience with online polling and a variety of digital collaboration tools. Attendees will leave the workshop having identified concrete action steps for transitioning activities and assignments they typically use face-to-face for remote environments. The focus of this session is engagement during synchronous Zoom meetings.

Session facilitated by: CAT

Learning Objectives

Reflect on your current pedagogical practices and teaching goals.
Explore remote teaching strategies that promote engagement, enhance learning, and foster an inclusive environment for all students.
Experience using strategies that encourage interactivity and engagement during live synchronous Zoom sessions.
Prepare to transition face-to-face activities for remote learning.

Session Materials

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FORUM Fostering Student Engagement Remotely

Slides

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FTF Activity Guide - Student Engagement

Breakout Room Activity Guide

Save a copy to your own Google Drive or download this template to use it for scaffolding small group discussions
in your courses.

FTF TEMPLATE Student Engagement Breakout Room Notes

Breakout Room Notes Template

Save a copy to your own Google Drive or download this template to use it for scaffolding small group discussions
in your courses.

Resources

Featured During This Session

Active Learning Strategies for Remote Teaching

CAT Short Guide to Active Learning Strategies for Remote Teaching

Inclusive Strategies for Remote Teaching

CAT Short Guide to Inclusive Strategies for Remote Teaching

In Class Polling

CAT In-Class Polling Guide

Using Zoom Breakout Rooms

CAT Zoom Breakout Room Guide

General Resources

CAT Keep Teaching - Pedagogy website -- our landing page for remote teaching support
Designing for Remote Teaching & Learning -- an asynchronous course developed by Online Teaching & Learning at UCLA to support instructors
Resources for Teaching Remotely: A Community Space -- a CCLE site with general information and tips about using CCLE more effectively for remote teaching
CEILS Teaching Guides

Tech Support Resources

Find your local technology support team by department/division -- your local support unit can help you get started with Zoom and CCLE, and also offers general technology support.
Getting Started with Zoom
- Zoom Support Website -- robust searchable documentation and tutorials for all Zoom features, from the basics of setting up a meeting to managing polls, breakout rooms, and more
- Using Zoom at UCLA -- tutorials and documentation from UCLA
- UCLA Zoom tutorial for students -- includes helpful tips for any user about viewing options, managing chat and reactions, and more.
- UCLA privacy and security recommendations re: Zoom

Managing Large Remote Lecture Courses

Check out CAT's Strategies for Large Remote Lecture Courses resource website

Creating Community Remotely

A Guide to Setting Community Agreements (Intergroup Dialogue/CAT)

Check out the resource website for the Creating Community Remotely Workshop led by CAT and CEILS for more tips -- including a helpful Creating Community Checklist

Facilitating Group Work

Designing for Effective Group Work (CEILS)
Using Group Projects Effectively (Carnegie Mellon)

Leading Discussions

Five New Twists for Online Discussions
Discussion Boards: Valuable, Overused? Discuss.
Guide to Effective Use of Discussion Boards
Bloom's Taxonomy Question Stems (if you are unfamiliar with Bloom's Taxonomy, Iowa State University has a great interactive website that gives a good overview)

Tools for Discussion & Collaboration:

CCLE Discussion Boards -- Good as a low-stakes writing area, journal entries, reading responses
Campuswire -- Good for asynchronous discussion
Slack -- Good for asynchronous discussion
UCLA Google Suite (Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, etc) -- Good for scaffolding breakout room discussions and for collaborative synchronous and asynchronous work

Tools for Engaging Students:

Polling tools: Poll Everywhere, Mentimeter, Zoom polls, UCLA's Online Polling Tool
Google Forms for surveys or collecting anonymous questions
Interactive boards like Padlet or Flipgrid for creating dynamic image grids
Quizlet is useful for allowing students to create review materials to share

Assessing Online Participation

Assessing online participation (Harvard)
How do I assess participation online? (Pierce College)
Sample rubric for grading online participation

NOTE:

Some of the tools used here are not currently on the official UCLA approved remote teaching tools list. However, tools can be reviewed on a use case basis by your department's IT department. If you would like to suggest a resource to add to this page, please email CAT Associate Director for Faculty Engagement, Beth Goodhue.