Online & Hybrid Teaching

Record your classroom meetings and post recordings on your Blackboard course page.

• View this brief PowerPoint to learn how to use your classroom technology to do this: OTS Classroom Technology Overview

• Here is a simple text document that provides support for recording your classroom meeting: Guidelines for Instructional Lecture Capture

• Classroom training is available to show you how to record in the classroom: towson.edu/ccltconsults.

• You may also find out what type of equipment is available in the classroom virtual tour, found on this website:  towson.edu/cclt

Hold virtual office hours using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.

View this brief video to learn how to do this: Blackboard Collaborate for Virtual Office Hours 

Give students who are absent the opportunity to participate in a class that they missed through the use of the discussion board tool within Blackboard.

• Creating Rigorous Online Discussion Board Assignments
• Additional discussion tips:
  • Extend in-person class discussions to the Discussion Board.
  • Design in-person class discussions that require thoughtful and detailed responses.
  • These discussions require more time than the in-person class period.
  • Post the discussion question or prompt on the week’s discussion board forum.
  • After the in-person class meeting, ask one of the students to summarize the discussion on the online forum as a prompt for the whole class.
  • All students, including the ones who are absent, can contribute to the discussion.

After uploading the recorded classroom session, use a short VoiceThread for clarifying questions that students raised in the in-person class. This could include additional sources or explanation about learning activities. This VoiceThread video can be uploaded inside the weekly folder.

• VoiceThread Basics

Here are some additional ideas that will help you to create and offer your exam easily for online deployment.

• View assessment tips on the “One-stop shop for faculty resources” page. Select “Pedagogy and Research,” then click on “Assessment” to find many useful resources.
• Creating a Blackboard Test
• Grading a Test
• Creating an Assignment for paper submission
• Grading an Assignment

• Review your placement of assignments in your syllabus and consider moving those due in the first weeks of class to later dates.
• For laboratory courses, frontload “lecture” portions of your course, moving lab meetings until later in the semester.
• Send Announcements with information about learning activities that will be the focus of the in-person class meeting.