Expectations

Your students have expectations for OLO courses. These are based on previous personal experiences, peers’ experiences, and general assumptions of an online class. For OLO courses, it is expected that students will not complete any synchronous activities. This includes synchronous group work and/or lectures. When a student chooses an asynchronous course, they may not have set aside a specific time to work on your course, and they may not be able to organize a time that works to be synchronous. When creating expectations for your students remember for some of your students this may be the first university course, let alone the first online course that they have experienced. Your students may also have never taken a course in Canada. To be culturally responsive consider adding examples of expectations that you may have such as the information required in an email and how they should address you. It is important that you explicitly state what you expect of your students, and what they can expect from you. Expectations you may have of your students include due dates, AI usage, assignments, and communication expectations. You may consider providing information on what students can expect from you including how consistently you will provide communication, how you want them to communicate with you (course messages vs. email) and how long they can expect you to take to respond to communications. As you expect your students to uphold their expectations, you need to uphold yours as well.