Engage

How do I engage my students online, including as part of the formal “C6/C7” engagement and monitoring process?

An important element of learning, is engaging your students, trying to be more student centred and encourage active learning.  This increases the motivation and depth of learning of your students, whilst providing a supportive environment.  Engaging your students also gives you the opportunity to get to know your students and monitor their involvement with the course.

Build in, in particular, synchronous and frequent opportunities for peer to peer engagement and engagement with academic staff within your course. Engaging your students  in a variety of ways also gives you the opportunity to get to know them and to reflect on their involvement. It can also make it easier for you to reflect on whether it would be useful for you to get in touch directly to offer support informally from time to time, or to note and encourage sustained strong engagement. The activities explored below are suggestions as to how this could be done, and consider also the examples in the Social Presence pages. These activities could also be possible “designated learning activities” for the more formal student engagement and monitoring system (often termed C6/C7). Please do ensure that details of your choices as to these activities are included in the course guide, in announcements in the VLE and in your first teaching session.