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The benefits of engaging students with video discussions include enhanced personal communication, the ability to convey non-verbal cues, increased engagement, immediate feedback, community building, and personalized learning.

Examples of ways you can incorporate video discussion into your courses include:

• Student Introduction Videos
• Weekly Reflective Video Journals
• Peer Feedback Sessions via Video
• Current Event Video Discussion
• Virtual Poster Sessions

, , , and  are all tools students can use to record and/or submit videos. 

Student presentations offer several benefits, including increased student engagement, enhanced peer interaction, improved communication skills, a stronger personal connection, the promotion of critical thinking and learning, community building, and greater flexibility and accessibility.

Examples of presentation assignments you can include in your courses include:

• Research Project Presentation
• Case Study Analysis
• Group Project Presentation
• Creative Project Presentation
• Debate or Argumentative Presentation

 and  are great tools you and your students to create more engaging presentations.

Building opportunities for audience interaction into your courses helps engage students, build community, and allow for personalization. 

Examples of ways you can incorporate this interaction include:

• Interactive Polls
• Surveys on Topics Related to Course Material
• Icebreaker Polls
• Weekly Check-in Surveys
• Reflection Polls
• Pre-Assessment Surveys

Zoom has an , and and are two great tools you can use to collect feedback from students and facilitate collaboration, respectively. Moreover, is a great game-based learning platform, and is great for creating virtual boards and sandboxes for collaboration. 

Providing your students with videos of yourself speaking enhances their clarity and understanding, shows your flexibility and accessibility, and can help you show your enthusiasm and passion for the course material.

Examples of videos you can incorporate into your courses include:

• Welcome Video
• Lecture Videos
• Live Q&A Sessions
• Feedback Videos in Response to Student Assignments
• Demonstration Videos

, , , and can all be used to create videos of yourself speaking. 

Giving your students the opportunity to converse with each other is just as important as giving them the ability to converse with you. Building community helps facilitate collaboration and teamwork, increase engagement, foster a supportive learning environment, give students more flexibility and accessibility, give students an outlet to receive real-time feedback, expose students to diverse perspectives on course material, and allow students to have a record of conversations and information related to the course. 

Ways you can create community conversations include:

• Create Discussion Groups
• Assign Group Projects
• Host Real-time Q&As
• Encourage Peer Feedback
• Post Announcements

and are two great tools your students can use to communicate with each other.

Interactive course content is a great way to enhance engagement, improve retention and understanding, give a personalized learning experience, encourage critical thinking, and increase student motivation and satisfaction.

Examples of interactive content you can incorporate into your courses include:

• Interactive Videos
• Simulations and Virtual Labs
• Drag and Drop Activities
• Quizzes and Polls

allows you to create content like this within Moodle.

Providing your students with individualized feedback on assignments helps enhance engagement, improve learning outcomes, boost their confidence and motivation, foster a supportive learning environment, encourage reflective learning, and address individual learning needs.

There are a variety of ways you can provide individualized feedback, including:

• Written Feedback on Assignments
• Audio or Video Feedback
• Interactive Rubrics
• Progress Reports
• Peer Feedback with Instructor Oversight
• Tailored Study Plans

Moodle Assessments, including , , and , are great tools for providing feedback. , , and can also help you provide individualized feedback.

Don't just assign group projects; make them work! Group projects can be great for developing collaboration, enhancing critical thinking, introducing students to diverse perspectives, increasing student engagement and accountability, improving students' communication skills, and simulating real-world work environments. 

Examples of group project assignments include:

• Research Papers or Presentations
• Case Studies
• Peer Teaching
• Simulation and Role Playing

, , , and are all tools you can use to make group projects effective in your classes and help group members collaborate. 

Though online classes are generally asynchronous, you can still create opportunities for students to meet with you synchronously! Synchronous meetings can help you build stronger relationships with your students, enhance student understanding and clarity, encourage active participation, facilitate collaboration, and support student emotional well-being. 

Examples of synchronous engagement opportunities include:

• Regular Check-ins
• Feedback Sessions
• Live Q&A Sessions
• Virtual Office Hours

and are great tools you can use to engage synchronously with your students. 

Though you may be a course's instructor, your students can learn a lot from each other, too! Unlocking peer power in your students helps enhance their critical thinking, provides them with diverse perspectives, improves their writing and communication, encourages active engagement in your class, promotes self-reflection, and builds a supportive learning community.

Examples of ways you can unlock peer power include:

• Peer Essay Review
• Peer Project Feedback
• Discussion Posts
• Lab Reports
• Peer Editing Workshops

, , and are great resources you can use to unlock peer power in your students.