With only twenty-four hours in each day, we are constantly pressed for time to support our teaching, research, and service obligations let alone our personal commitments! In this article we will review four fundamental ideas you can harness to support your teaching preparation and to utilize your resources as wisely as possible.

If your New Year’s resolution is to refresh your online course, here are five quick ideas to get you started.

Accessibility refers to a proactive set of design standards that ensures online materials are available to everyone, regardless of abilities or disabilities.

In online and remote classrooms, the physical distance can make it seem daunting to hold students accountable for assigned tasks like reading the textbook or watching a video. What can instructors do to promote student accountability?

Instructors should reflect on their own practice by regularly considering how their course learning materials acknowledge diverse perspectives and seek to engage diverse and underrepresented populations.

Presence refers to an impression of community connectedness, togetherness, and awareness created by expressing strategic thoughts, feelings, and actions through an online medium. How will you convey your instructor presence to students?

Cultivating instructor presence is essential to successfully facilitating an online course. Many instructors communicate their expectations to students through weekly reminder announcements, grades, and performance feedback. While these standard forms of correspondence certainly contribute to instructor presence, Canvas offers a number of convenient features that can be used to enhance learner-instructor interactions and open lines of communication in an online course.

Creating meaningful online assessments presents unique challenges for instructors who are used to teaching in face-to-face settings. It is possible to create practical, rigorous online assessments; however, special consideration must be given to alignment with learning outcomes, assessment type, technological feasibility, and academic integrity.

The Distance Learning Committee developed the 9 Principles for Online Teaching to establish best practices for online teaching at UNF.

Accessible media recordings benefit all students, not just students with disabilities.