Follow this easy four-step approach when starting to offer online learning opportunities! 

1) Establish a Learning Management System (LMS)

• A learning management system (LMS) is a tool to organize, coordinate and deploy learning resources and activities

• We recommend Google Classroom or Moodle for most classrooms

• A simpler tool such as SeeSaw may be sufficient for elementary classrooms

• It's best if a school can choose to standardize on one or two options to provide a consistent learning environment for students 

2) Create Video Lesson Recordings

• Create short video presentations of the material

• We recommend that teachers use Google Meet for this.  Although Google Meet is a video conferencing app, a Meet session can be set up with just the teacher and recorded.  Meet allows the user to display their webcam and screen which is perfect for creating a lesson overview.  The recordings automatically save to Google Drive which makes sharing with students easy! 

• Screencastify and Loom can also work well for this

• Post video lesson recording (links) to LMS

3) Virtual Office Hours/Virtual Sessions

• Teachers should establish virtual office hours via Google Meet or Zoom

• This would be a set time where students could join to ask questions and receive assistance

• An opportunity for students to interact with classmates and teachers

4) Populate LMS with Learning Resources and Activities

• Add Video Lesson Recordings

• Add learning resources and activities

• Routinely post-class communication such as office hours

• Discovery Education and PBS Learning Media are great starting points that integrate with Google Classroom