Resources for Instructors
- Use the REVISED Course Templates in LEARN to build your course
- Instructor Resources for Student Success is a site in LEARN that contains ready-made downloadable online course content from the Writing and Communication Centre, Student Success Office, and Office of Academic Integrity. Self-register for this LEARN site, review, select, and download the material you need for your course, and upload it to your own LEARN course as needed.
- Fostering Engagement: Facilitating Online Courses in Higher Education
- Tips for Online Discussions
- “Don’t teach. Facilitate." This essay by by James Skidmore, along with his accompanying Teach Online website, offers concrete guidance on creating a simple yet effective online course.
- Encouraging Academic Integrity online
- Copyright for teaching online
- Copyright for University Instructors Modules 2, 5, and 6 are recommended for getting started. Open Copyright Course from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
- Downloadable privacy notice for recordings
- LEARN documentation for instructors on the LEARN Help site
Course Content Choices and Delivery Options
- Compressing media files
- Reducing the size of PPT files
- Videoconferencing alternatives: how low bandwidth teaching will save us all
- Best pratices for Video and Audio Recording
If your course exists in a fully online format, it may be possible to copy some course content (and LEARN tool setup) from the online course into your LEARN course site for the purpose of teaching remotely. Please submit a Course Component Copy Request through the Centre for Extended Learning.
Resources for Students
If you have students needing assistance with anything from academic success, research, accessible learning, mental health, technology or anything else please direct them to the Current Students pathway page to see all the supports available for them.
Asynchronous or Synchronous Discussions
- Educause: Asynchronous and synchronous elearning
- UBC: Asynchronous Communication: Tools for Collaboration
- Faculty Focus Special Report: Engaging Online Students with Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning Tools