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Online Teaching Best Practices

—Creating Community Online

Preferred Name

Communicate with your students about which name they prefer to use. If names are inaccurate, they can be updated as follows:

  • Contact Registration on the Oregon City Campus (in Roger Rook) to change the Display name across the institution

NOTE: All Display, Username, and Email can be changed between terms via Registration.

Moodle Profile Image

Upload a picture to your Moodle Profile so your students can easily identify you. Then, ask your students to do the same.

  1. Login to Moodle
  2. Click the down arrow (top-right) to open the User Menu
  3. Select Profile
  4. Click Edit profile under User details
  5. Scroll to User picture and upload an image
  6. Scroll to click Update profile to save changes

Welcome Students

Welcome each student to your Moodle course by name.

  1. Login to the designated course in Moodle and Turn editing on
  2. Choose the desired content item, then click on the Edit menu > Edit settings option
  3. Type and/or [lastname] (in lowercase as shown) within the course content, heading, or forum post to automatically reference each student by name
  4. Click the Save changes button at the bottom of the page

Introductions

Create a Forum (public) or Assignment (private) Activity within Moodle asking students to introduce themselves; and/or…

Introduce yourself to your students with a welcoming video using Zoom Video Conferencing.

  1. Login to Moodle via online.clackamas.edu
  2. Within the red bar at the top of Moodle open the Faculty menu
  3. Select Zoom Video Conferencing
  4. Select Recording Content (PDF)
  5. Follow the instructions provided:
    • Activate your account
    • Record a video
    • Upload a video to YouTube
    • Embed a YouTube video in Moodle

Learn Faces and Names

Learn faces and names as you use Zoom Video Conferencing.

  1. Login to Moodle via online.clackamas.edu
  2. Within the red bar at the top of Moodle open the Faculty menu
  3. Select Zoom Video Conferencing
  4. Select Best Practices (PDF)
  5. Follow the instructions provided under Best Practices > Session Recording
  6. Select and check Video Recordings > Meeting > Always display participants’ names on their videos

Reflect Your Community Through Images

Explore these repositories of free or openly licensed photos and images featuring people of color, trans, non-binary, indigenous, and other diverse population groups to reflect your community. While attribution is not required to use some photos, please consider giving credit whenever possible so that others may find these collections.

  • Images of Empowerment: Free images of women’s lives and work, created by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Getty Images
  • Allgo Plus-Size: Free stock photography collections featuring plus-size people
  • Disabled And Here: Free stock photography featuring disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color), varied body sizes/types, sexual orientations, and gender identities in the Pacific Northwest
  • The Gender Spectrum Collection: Free stock photos of trans and non-binary people
  • Nappy: Free high-resolution photos of black and brown people
  • PICNOI: Free photos of people of color; no attribution required, but can give credit by linking to the site
  • #WOCinTechChat: Free photos of women and non-binary people of color working in the Tech field
  • Redefining Women Icon Collection: Icons of women
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