Managing workload

1. Managing Workload

2. Strategies to
Manage Workload
DESIGN STRATEGIES TIME MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIES
TEACHING
STRATEGIES
SUPPORT STRATEGIES

3. Design Strategies
Pre-Planning – Map and complete your course before
the semester starts
Provide clear expectations for instructional processes
and attribution of successful products in rubrics
Allocate units-align objectives with assessments and
activities
Anticipate Course responsibilities
Prioritize Course activities

4. Time Management
Strategies
Organization is essential for managing
workload
Organize information in an easy-to-follow
order
Be explicit and emphatic about the time
requirements in the syllabus
Manage asynchronous discussions

5. Teaching Strategies
Identify your weekly teaching
activities.
At the beginning of the semester,
put time on your personal
calendar for-
Create presence by inserting
yourself regularly in your class.
Pre-set the emails and messages.

6. Support Strategies
One-on-One support
Instructional design assistance
Content expertise
Technology support
Americans with Disability Act (ADA)
Copyright compliance help
Teaching Assistant

7. Best Practices for
Managing your
Course
Be present in the course
Create a supportive online course community
Share a set of very clear expectations for your students and for
yourself
Use a variety of large group, small group, and individual work
experience
Use both synchronous and asynchronous activities
Early in the term, about week 3, ask for informal feedback on “
how is the course going?” and “Do you have any suggestions?”

8. Conclusion
Students expect you to give them the
time they need when they need it.
It is up to you, the instructor, to clarify
and specify contact availability, follow
technology to communicate
effectively, use rubrics for grading, and
adjusting your teaching strategies to
match your style with your students.