What is asynchronous content?

When teaching online, you'll primarily engage in two modalities:

Brightspace is NYU's learning management system, and it is backbone for organizing online classes. Brightspace has many features that allow you to design lesson content, create quizzes and assessments, communicate with students and manage grades.

We have a comprehensive resource called Brightspace at Your Own Pace that walks through all of Brightspace's major features, and we recommend you check it out.

Completing Brightspace at Your Own Pace will leave you ready to manage the asynchronous portions of your course and take full advantage of features that simplify tasks like communicating with students and managing grades.

We recommend completing it in full, but if you're in a hurry, here are some key steps to get you up and running with a basic course site:

In many cases, your online meeting time will be limited relative to a traditional in-person classroom, so you'll need to think about which parts of your teaching are presented in each respective format. We'll discuss that in the next part.