Teaching online is different to classroom face to face teaching. Take some time to work through the implications for your courses.
We know these are difficult times, and staff and student well-being and health must be our first priority. 
Teaching online or remotely enables learning to continue even in times of disruption, but we know that not everyone is expert at or trained in online teaching. 
Our best advice is to keep it simple. Focus on empathising first, empowering second, and engaging third.
Hopefully the tips and links below will help you with this.

Get Online Quickly Checklist​

Key tools are now available for you to work and teach online.
Follow these quick actions to make sure you are ready and have the right tools to make the online switch 
  1. Complete the ‘Work and Teach at Home’ checklist. Do you have the right access and equipment?
  2. Create a Zoom account and go through the staff Zoom guide.
  3. Test Zoom, does your microphone and webcam work?
  4. Get to know VStream to record lectures, or more importantly, create concept videos from home.
  5. Check your Blackboard course. Do your students know who you are, how to contact you, who your tutors are, who is the class rep and what key dates are coming up.
  6. Read the Course Continuity Checklist, and associated guides, and review against your own courses.

Here are some things to think about, tasks for you to do and advice on how to prepare and then continue working under disrupted circumstances.

Being prepared for working remotely

Have you thought about how you could work remotely? What if you or your students couldn't come to campus?
Can you work from home?
​What would you in terms of technology and capabilities to be able to work from anywhere?

What do I need to do to be prepared?

Have you thought through and tested the scenario that you may need to work remotely or from home?
Consider:
  • where will you be?
  • what devices, information and connection will you have?
  • what systems are you going to need to access?
  • how are you going to carry out tasks and responsibilities when not on campus or face to face?
Go through this checklist to see if there are things you might need to do to be fully prepared.
The work and teach from home checklist is a start point to understand if you are ready to continue working from home.
Talk to your Head of School/Manager if your checklist reveals gaps.
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Are your courses/teaching ready for disruption?

Have you reviewed your course and designed the Blackboard site and curriculum in a way that allows you flexibility to teach in the classroom or remotely?
Now is a good time to review your course and talk to support teams about being prepared. Visit the Teaching Continuity Hive for your faculty or work through
​ the Course Continuity Checklist to identify what your needs for development are.

​We are also collating resources from around the world that people are finding useful. Visit the Continuity Resources page to take a look.
I just want to know:

How do I use video for teaching resilience?

Learn more about lecture recording, making core concept or podcast videos.

How can I teach remotely using Zoom?

Learn more about communication and online teaching using Zoom.

Is my research work resilient to disruption?

Have you considered how you would continue your research work and collaboration if there is disruption to the University?
Watch this space for information coming soon!

Academic Continuity and Teaching Resilience
​What do we mean by resilience?

Resilience is a well-known concept but is used differently across the disciplines. In psychology, it is how individuals respond to a psychologically disruptive event (e.g., Bonanno et al. 2010). In education, it is how an individual is able to learn through adversity (e.g., Downey 2008). In the disaster risk reduction realm, it is how individuals and communities maintain or return to ‘normal functions’ after a crisis (e.g., McManus et al 2007). In this work, we define resilience as the ability of academics to utilise core strategies that enable them to continue L&T during a long-term disruption, such as a disaster (known here as: resilience to disruption).

For more information about the research work done after the Christchurch Earthquake read through the Resilience to Disruption Project Case study.