Online Teaching Resources
Everything you need to know to get started teaching online.
Moving forward online and digital education components will be an important part of the academic experience. This website will help you to build a well structured asynchronous course, but keep in mind that students typically prefer synchronous, or live, interaction with their instructors. We’ve included resources for synchronous tools if you would like to include that in your course. Students will appreciate frequent opportunities to interact with instructors, ask questions, have discussions, and receive feedback on their assessments.
This is just a starting point and meant to inform you and help plan your courses. It is not set in stone and can be adapted any way that fits your course, teaching style, and the changing environment.
Course Ownership
As you develop and manage your online course it’s important to understand digital copyright and ownership surrounding the material you create. In short, as a faculty member the materials you create for your course belong to you, and you are free to take that work to any other organization or institution you like. Under normal circumstances the faculty member who developed the course would need to send ODE written permission to give another faculty or department administrator access to view or copy from it.
If you are interested in further detail about how this is determined, please refer to SPG 601.28, Who Holds Copyright at or in Affiliation with the University of Michigan.
Recommended Technology
Supported Operating Systems
Windows (Microsoft)
Windows 10
Windows 11
macOS (Apple)
macOS 10.13 or higher
Chrome OS (Google)
Most recent 2 versions supported
Supported Web Browsers
Visit the Canvas support site for the most up-to-date information on supported browsers
Recommendations
We recommend all computers have the following:
4GB minimum RAM
High speed internet
Webcam/Microphone
New Semester Checklist
If you already have a course developed that just needs to be prepared for the next semester, ODE has created a checklist for you to follow. Looking at any existing course content as early as possible will be very helpful in preparing for the coming semester.