Once you have your content and activities ready, the next step is to distribute them to your students - this is most easily achieved via Canvas as advised by Technology Enhanced Learning.
Before releasing any content or activities it might be a good idea to set the stage for your students. This can be achieved by crafting a written message or creating a short video message, whichever is easier for you, that can be provided to students in advance. This message should clearly lay out the plan for the day/week and set a positive tone for the module.
When posting new content or activities, make sure to consider the following:
- Make sure students know when new material is posted: If you post new materials in Canvas, be sure to let students know what you posted and where. You might even ask that they change their Canvas notification preferences to alert them when new materials are posted.
- Keep things phone friendly: In a crisis, many students may only have a phone available, so make sure you are using mobile-friendly formats, PDFs being the most common. Consider saving other files (for example, PowerPoint presentations) to PDFs, which are easier to read on phones and tablets, and keep the file size small. It is fairly easy to reduce the size of PDF files using Adobe Acrobat, and there are online tools that do the same thing (for example, google "Reduce PDF file size"). Remember, videos take lots of bandwidth, so only use them if you are confident students will be able to access them and if there is no other way to convey the information
