Before starting to see how you can organise your remote teaching, we want to explain some golden rules that are indispensable in a distance learning situation:
- Check communication channels with your students regularly. We recommend you that you check your emails at least 2 or 3 times a week. The same applies if you use the Moodle internal messaging service or if you've opened a discussion forum for your subject.
- You need to maintain a certain degree of regularity when it comes to interacting with students. As you won't have regular face-to-face contact, we recommend that you get in touch with your students from time to time to give them the feeling that you're aware of what's going on in your subject.
- Always let students know about any new content. It's very important that students are kept up to date with everything that you add to your subjects. Use a communication channel to keep them in the loop.
- Stick to the same timetable or window for tutorials, fora, videoconferences or assigning new tasks. To help your students organise their workload and avoid overlaps between subjects, try to keep the same subject timetable for conducting tutorials, fora or videoconferences. It is also advisable, insofar as possible, to keep the same time slot when assigning your students new tasks.
- Use videoconferences or videos where appropriate. It's not a good idea to replace face-to-face classes with mass videoconference sessions, except where time is pressing. Use this resource to deliver tutorials or other activities with small groups. Recording videos may be a good alternative, but try and keep them short if so. Use the premise “one concept per video”.
- Make a calendar for students. You can add scheduled sessions, assessment tasks and other useful information for your students. Keep them up to date on any changes you make.
- Respect the delivery times of tasks and return students' marks in a timely manner. It's important to maintain accuracy in the delivery of tasks during this period of remote teaching. Give feedback on students' work as soon as possible, either in the form of a mark or comments.
Use the Moodle platform wherever possible as a central space for distance communication, teaching and assessment with students. Moodle is the UdG's virtual education and learning platform. In operation since 2008, all subjects are organised through this platform and all students should be familiar with it. It is, therefore, our remote education platform. Moodle can respond to basic needs to conduct distance learning with students, offering resources, assigning tasks, organising them into groups, communicating with them and assessing them.