Be flexible and understanding

To add flexibility to your course, review your syllabus and think about how your attendance and participation rules, assignment choices, and due dates can all be flexible. At the beginning of the lesson, ask students to complete a survey with information about their location, time zone, and present learning circumstances (access to the internet, private study space, necessary technology including printers, academic support, and services). With this knowledge, you may anticipate if your lesson plans will support student situations now and in the future and make necessary revisions.

Remind students frequently that they should get in touch with you if something is affecting their ability to concentrate or finish assignments in class. You may support your students by being adaptable; create choices for asynchronous study in advance so that students can reengage if they must take a break from the course for a while owing to personal reasons.