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Transition Your Face-to-Face Course to Online

Before you begin

Revisit your course-level learning outcomes and determine

  • Which ones you need to cover for the weeks of remote learning
  • What kinds of assessments students should complete to show mastery of those outcomes (e.g., quizzes, essays, etc.)
  • What instructional materials and interactions are required to help your students adequately prepare for those assessments

Review your syllabus and determine

  • What assignments should be revised
  • w\What deadlines should be changed

Step 1: Publish your ReggieNet site

All classes at ISU have a ReggieNet course site available to supplement or to serve as the primary classroom. But for students to have access to those course sites, you will need to publish it. Here are a couple of resources that can help you complete this important step:

Step 2: Select a primary communication tool

Though you could use email to communicate with your students, it is often more effective to use the Announcements tool in ReggieNet and then select the Email Notification option when posting. This technique allows both email notification and an archive of announcements within the course site itself. Here are a couple of resources that can help you complete this important step:

Step 3: Update your students

Whatever communication tool you elect to you, as soon as possible, contact your students and let them know

  • You are making changes to the course
  • Why you are making those changes
  • How soon they can expect an update describing those changes

Step 4: Rethink delivery, but not how you teach

Whether transitioning one lesson or a full course from the traditional, face-to-face environment to fully online, the main consideration is to focus on what works well in teaching the lesson on campus, and then finding the online tool that best facilitates that process. Here is a list of the most frequently used tools in ReggieNet and their purpose in teaching:

Tool* Purpose

Overview

Landing page of the course site, includes the site's description, recent announcements, messages, and events

Announcements

Post and view current, time-critical information

Assignments

Share instructions and grade assignments

Forums

Post and reply to written conversations

Gradebook

Record, calculate, and view grades

Lessons

Create, organize, and deliver content by week or unit

Messages

Send and receive messages with students

Resources

Upload, organize, and view documents, websites, and videos, that can be shared with students throughout the site

Tests & Quizzes

 Create and take online assessments

*To learn more about how to use each tool, visit the ReggieNet How-To Handouts and Videos page of the Center for Integrated Professional Development's website.

Step 5: Gather your course content

Though you have many options for moving your course online, the quickest way to get content to your students is to use the Resources tool in ReggieNet. Here are a couple of resources that can help you complete this important step:

Lessons

Resources

Step 6: Establish a way to measure learning

Though you have many options for how to measure learning in the online classroom, below are three of the most popular options for faculty who use ReggieNet:

Assignments

Forums

Tests & Quizzes

Step 7: Create a central communication hub for student questions

Just as with a physical classroom, your online students might have questions regarding activities and expectations. To help facilitate this information exchange, and to improve both time management and overall clarity, you can add a Course Q&A forum to your ReggieNet site using the Forums tool. Here are a couple of resources that can help you complete this important step:

Accessibility

Ensuring digital materials meet the needs of all students is an important consideration when moving instruction to online spaces.

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