Teaching Tip: Connecting with students with slow internet
Nov. 9, 2021
To ensure that students with slow internet connections can keep up in your class, offer alternatives, recordings of class sessions, and be flexible with ways to deliver classes and exams. Most of all, encourage your students to reach out if they have trouble with internet connections, and reassure them at the start of the course that you will find alternative ways to get the class content to them.
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— Teaching Tip by Claudia Ihl, associate professor of biology at the Northwest Campus in Nome. She teaches a variety of classes over Zoom or in person, and conducts research with undergraduate students.