Strategies for Teaching Online

Keeping Students Engaged

Teaching online requires a new set of tools and strategies to keep your students engaged with the course content. Please refer to the following comprehensive guide on tips and strategies to enhance online courses: Tips for Asynchronous Online Teaching. Below, you’ll find several programs instructors can use to enhance student engagement beyond the standard chat.

Bulletin Board – Padlet: An online bulletin board where students can have interactive conversations, show their thinking, showcase their work, and much more.

  • View this video for a simple tutorial on starting and sharing your Padlet bulletin board
  • View this video for a more in-depth tutorial on how to use Padlet

Whiteboard – Google Jamboard: A virtual whiteboard that allows you and your students to post text, images, and gifs. Jamboard is free and unlimited.

  • View this video for a simple tutorial for accessing, creating, and sharing a Jamboard

Polling – Direct Poll: This online program allows instructors to easily create and administer polls to their students. Direct Poll captures students’ answers and displays them in real time as they come in. This is a good tool for measuring and responding to students’ learning before they take high-stake assessments.

Additional Resources

Below are two additional resources on how to engage your students while teaching online.

Strategies Designed to Increase Student Engagement

Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms