Online Teaching ACUE Toolkit
Resources to Ease Into Online Learning
The shift to teaching in an online environment can feel overwhelming, but that need not be the case.
These free and downloadable resources can help make that transition more manageable, and can even offer fresh ideas to seasoned online educators.
We invite you to download our toolkit for tips you can put into immediate practices with your class(es). You can also explore videos in the Video Resources section.
Download Online Teaching Handouts
Online Teaching Toolkit Videos
Welcoming Students to the Online Environment
Using these resources, you can create a welcome message, monitor Q&A forums, and much more.
Managing Your Online Presence
Maintaining a social, teaching, and cognitive presence in an online course allows you to form connections with your students, and effective share your expertise in the content area.
Organize Your Course
From ensuring your online course is clear and intuitive, to establishing a predictable rhythm – utilize these resources to help you and your students navigate your online course with ease.
Plan and Facilitate Effective Discussions
Assign a self-reflection activity, aligned to your discussion forum rubrics, to help students evaluate their participation in an online discussion.
Record Effective Microlectures
Resources that explain how to build short (6 minutes or less), instructor-produced videos that are informative, engaging and memorable.
Engage Students in Readings and Microlectures
How can you keep students engaged and focused online, while supporting their learning and helping them prioritize information? The following resources explain the process.
Special Thanks to Our Contributing Faculty Members
Who Contributed Their Time and Talents to the Online Teaching Toolkit
Flower Darby
Director of Teaching for Student Success, University of Missouri, and author, with James M. Lang, of Small Teaching Online
Kevin Kelly
Coauthor of Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments
Michael Wesch
Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University
