Welcome to the Skylight Guide to Teaching Online!

The purpose of this resource is to provide brief guidance on online course design considerations to get you started/refreshed in terms of teaching online and the available UBC-supported technology and guides. The content is searchable and allows you to quickly access chapters of interest. Happy reading!

Part 1: Planning Your Online Course

The part provides the 10 important considerations when planning an online course that are based on lessons learned from the past year of remote teaching, namely student and teaching team workload, the importance of establishing a teaching presence online, and implementing inclusive teaching practices to support student wellbeing.

Part 2: Assessments and Grades

This part focus on assessment strategies using different learning technologies that can help maintain exam integrity.

Part 3: Engaging Students Online

This part provides key strategies for engaging students during live lectures (synchronous teaching), before and after live lectures (asynchronous teaching). Some of the strategies are easier to implement than others, but allocating time for practice with a colleague or your teaching assistant(s) is advised.

Part 4: Course Design Considerations

This part introduces the Skylight Canvas course templates that can help create consistency between Science courses, and help students easily access course materials on Canvas.