{"id":182,"date":"2024-01-09T19:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=182"},"modified":"2024-12-04T17:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:21:53","slug":"b-assigning-tasks-and-providing-support","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/chapter\/b-assigning-tasks-and-providing-support\/","title":{"raw":"B. Assigning Tasks and Providing Support","rendered":"B. Assigning Tasks and Providing Support"},"content":{"raw":"If you consider teaching, all teaching, in a holistic sense, these categories of delivering content &amp; sharing expertise, giving feedback, providing support and assigning tasks are artificial. However, they prove to be useful when we attempt to map the various roles we have and the activities we do as instructors to the online spaces and digital tools we have available to us.\r\n\r\nIrrespective of these seemingly artificial categories, and of whether the course is in-person or online, a course has a beginning, a middle and an end. We can map what we do in terms of providing support and assigning tasks to what our students\u2019 needs are at a particular stage in our course.\r\n\r\nThis section is organized based on the learner chain of activity as a way to integrate activities providing support and assigning tasks.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-183\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2109\/2024\/01\/LearnerChainActivity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/>\r\n\r\nWe can support learners in their journey through our courses at each link in this chain and our efforts in doing so as online facilitators align with principles of good teaching practice. 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We can map what we do in terms of providing support and assigning tasks to what our students\u2019 needs are at a particular stage in our course.<\/p>\n<p>This section is organized based on the learner chain of activity as a way to integrate activities providing support and assigning tasks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-183\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2109\/2024\/01\/LearnerChainActivity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2109\/2024\/01\/LearnerChainActivity.png 500w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2109\/2024\/01\/LearnerChainActivity-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2109\/2024\/01\/LearnerChainActivity-65x39.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2109\/2024\/01\/LearnerChainActivity-225x135.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/teachingonlineatbcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2109\/2024\/01\/LearnerChainActivity-350x210.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We can support learners in their journey through our courses at each link in this chain and our efforts in doing so as online facilitators align with principles of good teaching practice. 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