Engaging Students in Synchronous Online Sessions

Engaging Students in Synchronous Online Sessions

Would you like to have your students ask more questions, engage in back-and-forth discussions, participate in a meaningful debate, or work together to solve problems you pose during your online synchronous session? This training sessions for instructors and teaching assistants focuses on the techniques and pedagogies that increase student engagement and create active learning and community during synchronous online sessions


90 minutes; 60 minutes of interactive workshop followed by 30 minutes of Q & A. 

Participation limited to 25; sign up


Prerequisites: 

- Participants have used Zoom to teach synchronous sessions, and are familiar with slide and screen sharing, and using the chat and participant list.  

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

- Use the functionality of Zoom for chatting, breakouts, whiteboarding, polling, and content sharing
- Create multiple means for promoting student engagement
- Identify and implement strategies to motivate and reward student engagement