Engagement Strategies | Virtual Learners

Created by Cory Martin, Modified on Wed, 19 Jun at 3:01 PM by Cory Martin

Engaging Virtual Learners

These learners are fully online, and will not meet face-to-face with an instructor or fellow classmates. Some students may meet synchronously and have set times to meet with instructors, while others may work asynchronously and learn at their own pace.

student in black long sleeve shirt sitting in front of silver macbook

Engagement Examples

Here are some common and useful ways to better engage students through Canvas:

- - Enable MasteryPaths to encourage student choice and progression through coursework.
  - Media Recordings in assignments, pages, discussions, and quizzes.
  - Provide media comments on graded work.
  - Consider utilizing appointment groups or conferences to “meet” with your students for check-ins, office hours, parent conferences, group project collaboration, etc.
  - Provide students with ways to engage with each other outside of coursework (i.e., virtual lunchtime, story time, social discussion boards, book talks, show-and-tell, etc.)

Media Recordings in Rich Content Editor

Record media directly in the Rich Content Editor

Providing Media Feedback in SpeedGrader

Media feedback comments in SpeedGrader