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Tips for Facilitating
Tips for Facilitating
Remote instruction can require more time than traditional in-person teaching, primarily due to larger numbers of student emails and the tracking of completed work. Here are a few steps to help reduce the time it takes to teach a remote course.
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Keep and Reuse
Keep and Reuse
Maintain records of communications and save common questions to turn into FAQs.
Reduce Email
Reduce Email
Create general question discussion forms for questions regarding course content or course mechanics. Often, more than one student will have the same question.
Encourage peer-to-peer support of course questions.
Only accept emails about grades or issues of a personal nature.
Record Email or Discussion responses
Record Email or Discussion responses
Use Kaltura Capture - a part of NYU Stream - to record responses to process-based questions.
Develop a Teaching Maintenance Schedule
Develop a Teaching Maintenance Schedule
Get organized and develop a schedule for answering emails, reading forums, and grading assignments.
Create rubrics to improve the efficiency of grading assignments and assessments.
Our goal should be to minimize the number of one-off emails that we answer about our course(s), and driving students to the discussion forums can help.
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This site was developed by NYU SPS Learning and Teaching Nexus following the NYU Remote-Instruction mandate as a result of COVID-19.This site is evergreen, and will continue to grow and develop. All requests about content should go to nexus@nyu.edu.
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