Instructor Notes

Outline from ITB Online Teaching Onboarding:

pacing: more important than ever to go slowly; also harder than ever because online moves slower
communication: feedback indicates that Instructors leave uncertain about whether they successfully engaged learners. Have to work harder to hear from learners online.
class size: many groups have been ignoring our advice on keeping online workshops small. There is often institutional pressure to do so. We’d like them to resist!
slow workshops and anxiety over quality probably both contribute to low response rates on post-assessment. We really want Instructors to find time to distribute surveys before sending people away.
Work in progress – as always but especially with new materials, contributions invited!

Breaks: designed for 1 x 15 min, can try 3 x 5 min but keep to time
“Activity 0” = Zoom hosting
If you have any groups of 4, 4th group members need to be moved during Activity 0 because time doesn’t allow for 4. They can complete Activity 0 during the 4th session (see table below)
some participants don’t feel the need to participate (Zoom experts) – it’s good to ask about this first to give them a chance to opt out

Group assignments for activity # during each time period are as follows:

Activity session	Group 1	Group 2	Group3	Group 4
1	0	1	1	1
2	2	0	2	2
3	3	3	0	3
4 (catch-up)	1	2	3	0

Timing is (of course) tight

if you have 4 groups, you must preserve time for all 4 activities.
Content between activities can be more or less interactive, depending on time
Zoom questions in the initial overview can be punted to Activity 0? (Maybe handled in etherpad then?)
Cloud instance material is optional

Purpose is to think through technical aspects of communications online and identify potential failure points, solutions
Challenging to find time to debrief, but important. Making sure they report in the etherpad during breakouts helps to debrief quickly if need be.

Purpose is to prepare participants to empathize with learner experience, then orient towards introducing a workshop in a way that will support those learners.
The activity itself isn’t particularly well-matched to the introductory text. Maybe could be a different activity in the future. But feedback indicates that it’s fine and people enjoy the practice introducing their online workshop here.
Group roles require a reminder.
Minimal debrief time is ok here – better to spend that time in the lead-up thinking about learner challenges.

Purpose is to prepare Instructors for the additional planning load and team coherence necessary to make a good online workshop function.
It refers them to the planning checklist, which can be overwhelming, but we want them to know about it and figure out how to cope with that now.
Activity has been updated to ask them to find single examples of things that can be planned asychronously, require a meeting etc.
Unlikely to have time to debrief.

We will distribute pre and post survey links to participants. We would appreciate it if Zoom Lead could paste the post-survey link into the chat at the end of the workshop.