We’re working on a lot of materials to support our collective transition to teaching fully online. Some are up now, and others will appear in these locations in the days to come:

• The Disability Guide, which includes a page of resources for making sure your online classes will be accessible to students with disabilities (up now);
• A modified assignment sequence, proposing some ways that you might adapt the scaffolding of your writing/reading assignments for teaching online– though you’re also free to stick with your usual syllabus if you prefer, obviously (up now);
• Low-stakes assignments tailored to teaching online, with videos that explain how they’re scaffolded to support the writing assignments (up now, with more to come);
• Shell versions of the ENG 110 syllabi in Google Classroom, Blackboard, and Academic Commons (which works exactly like QWriting but has more resources behind it), along with short videos that explain how each syllabus is set up digitally (these will be up by August 1);
• Examples of how to organize synchronous and asynchronous work, posted in lesson plans (up now, with more to come);
• Advice about specific technologies to use to teach writing online, with examples of how to use them (posted in the FAQ under resources); and
• More resources! Posted, obviously, under resources.

We know it’s a lot to think about! And we know also that it’s a lot to prepare, especially while we’re all challenged and distracted in so many news ways at once.

But we know also that this will be true for our students, too. They may come to us in the fall with needs that are even greater than usual– because they’re living through a pandemic as they’re also adjusting to this remote learning environment and learning as they always do how to thrive in college.

We want to make it work for them and for you as well as we can.

Watch this space!