This guide provides quick links to published resources that you might find helpful for your online/remote course design. Many are quite comprehensive and you'll want to select the most applicable content for you. We'd also recommend that you review Engineering's Guide to Online/Remote Learning.
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- U of T Resources
- External Resources (Use at your own discretion; verify policy before implementing)
Interested in training and support sessions? Check out all the upcoming instructional design sessions on CTSI's Event Calendar.
University of Toronto Resources
Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation (CTSI) Resources
- Online Learning Instructor Toolkit - This tool kit provides an in depth, self-directed guide to adapting your course for online/remote learning. Sections include: planning online learning, designing online learning, engaging students online, and UofT examples and profiles.
- Teaching Online/Remotely - Planning for Next Term: Instructors can extend their teaching presence through technology when moving courses online or delivering them remotely. This resource provides information and strategies to increase your readiness for this transition and will help you plan your course from start to finish.
- Academic Integrity and Teaching Online/Remotely - Instructors moving their courses to online/remote learning, may have questions regarding Academic Integrity (AI), especially if this is an unfamiliar assessment environment. This guide provides information and strategies that may be helpful to address AI at all stages in your online/remote course delivery, primarily focused on online assessments. Some of these strategies are adapted from the Smart Strategies section of the University of Toronto’s Academic Integrity website to suit the online teaching and assessment environment.
Online Learning Strategies (OLS) Resources
- Large Online/Remote Courses - As part of ongoing continuity planning and support Online Learning Strategies has co-facilitated a preliminary round table discussion with University of Toronto instructors who have an interest in developing and facilitating high enrollment (200+) courses. The conversation and subsequent investigation surfaced many strategies and recommended digital resources to manage large classes. The following draft document is available to the U of T community in SharePoint to allow editing to add additional suggestions or information. In the coming days these materials will be added to Academic Continuity – Teaching Online/Remotely on the CTSI web site. To receive ongoing communication or to participate in upcoming round tables, please RSVP using Large Online/Remote courses – Community Network RSVP.
- Virtual Labs for Remote/Online Courses - As part of ongoing continuity planning and support Online Learning Strategies has co-facilitated a preliminary roundtable discussion with University of Toronto instructors who have an interest in online labs for remote/online teaching experience (see Online Labs for Remote/Online Courses – Strategies and Online Labs for Remote Online Courses – Recommended Resources). To receive ongoing communication or to participate in upcoming round tables, please RSVP using Virtual Labs for Remote/Online Courses – Community Network RSVP.
OISE Resources
- Teaching and Learning Online: This site contains a variety of resources for supporting both teaching and learning in online settings, including one-on-one assistance for Faculty with online course development using U of T tools. Students can also review suggestions for preparing and handling online courses from the learner’s perspective. This is a work in progress: join us in learning and teaching about online learning and teaching.
Looking for evidence-based online/remote course design principles and practices? The Design for Learning Handbook (written by Prof. Clare Brett and her students) is especially useful for centering your design goals and using technology to support them (and it is deeply rooted in the research but a completely accessible read).
External Resources
These resources have been produced outside of the University of Toronto and may provide advice contrary to university policy. Please use your discretion when using them.
Canvas Resources
- Canvas Foundational Training Videos: These training videos provide an overview of Canvas courses. Viewers learn about Course Navigation and Canvas features they can use to deliver content and assess student performance.
- Growing with Canvas: Growing with Canvas has five modules of content that will take users through everything they need to know about using Canvas at their institutions - no matter what grade or level. The course uses a combination of the Canvas Video Guides and Canvas Guides to teach the content. Participants in the course will try out a number of the concepts through the practice activities.
Association of College and University Educators
- Welcome to ACUE's Online Teaching Toolkit - These resources are divided into six key topic areas for teaching remotely:
Online Learning Consortium
- Delivering High Quality Instruction in Response to COVID-19: A faculty-focused playbook intended to improve course design, teaching, and learning in online environments. With special attention to the needs of instructors teaching online for the first time, the guide offers strategies for getting started and improving over time.
eCampus Ontario
- Supporting Teaching and Learning into the Future: eCampusOntario is actively gathering resources and tools to support our members as they pivot to remote delivery. Please check these pages often as new content may become available.