Maintain regular communication with students, follow their progress, encourage participation and completion of materials, help guide the students to technology help, connect with students, manage conflict, deal with different behaviours.

Benefit of asynchronous discussions and adding your reply at the end of the discussion. Preparing a rubric for consistent grading. Private chats for one on one. Synchronous discussions through chat during the class. Why some participate during synchronous and asynchronous chats/discussions and how to increase participation.

Benefit of establishing a relationship with each student. Setting up a general discussion forum. Use of more discussion forums. Connecting.

Learning environments can be as diverse as their participants and require instructor moderation and influence. Students often benefit from guidance and reminders to help ensure they meet requirements. 

Engagement is vital in learning and requires active instructional oversight to stimulate and influence meaningful discussions.

I have learned the importance of knowing your course management system well and utilizing technical support as needed to help track student activity and engagement. I have also learned the importance of instructor engagement to facilitate student learning. 

This was a helpful module, and I appreciated the ideas for using videos or other methods to introduce myself and my credentials. Since my credentials are not always familiar to people, it makes sense to explain it.

I learned that everyone is different as a learner, but also that teachers are different, as well. Different methods can produce the objectives, and flexibility can be helpful.

I learned you must engage student to participate and be more involved.

The module emphasized consistency and the importance of instructor presence in discussion boards