Strategies for Academic Continuity
This information is designed to help faculty develop a basic continuity plan for their courses when a campus crisis (prolonged adverse weather impacts; health epidemic) significantly disrupts instruction.
Get Started
Here are some of the first steps to take when faced with a disruption to delivering your course.
Strategies
As you make plans to adapt your teaching strategies during an emergency, focus on what tasks you are trying to accomplish. We’ve provided strategies below for several course tasks on the following page:
Create a Plan
Academic continuity planning begins with asking yourself questions about the preparedness of you, your students and your course for this or any other emergency scenario.
- Overview of Questions to Ask
- Course Continuity Plan Worksheet (Questions in Google Doc Worksheet Format)
- Helene Academic Continuity: Online Equivalency Spreadsheet (UNCA)
- Samples for the Spreadsheet (tbd)
Tools and Resources (more tbd)
We’ve provided a list of recommended tools and resources for instructors based on accessibility, reliability and availability of support.
Getting Your Course Online Quickly
This page provides resources for getting a course online quickly in a crisis. By combining two tools, Moodle (a learning management system) and Zoom (a web conferencing tool), instructors can meet their basic needs for teaching remotely.
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