For CRIM1002, the teaching, lectures and tutorials were transferred to online delivery. Students were provided each week with pre-recorded videos of lectures (three-part mode) using Studio in Canvas. At the beginning tutorials were asynchronous. Students were provided with a weekly online tutorial activity package including visual components (eg. Video clips, games etc) and/or very brief reading components (eg. news articles, conversation piece) and a requirement to post in a group discussion to respond to a tutorial question related to activities. Later in the semester, the asynchronous mode was replaced by a similar tutorial plan delivered thru Zoom synchronous tutorials. Assessments did not need to change for this unit, but tutorial participation was based on attending to the online tutorial requirement.
With a cohort of 300 plus students, it is going to be difficult to please all of them. Some students expressed that they missed the face-to-face contact, while others preferred the advantage of being able to do the online tutorial package on their own time over an extended period of days. Partly the decision made on changing the asynchronous tutorials to synchronous Zooms during the latter part of the semester was to show students that we were listening to their wishes and were trying to accommodate everyone’s preferences.