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

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

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

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