Plan hybrid-concurrent activities
This guide is focussed on suggestions for how to plan and manage Hybrid - Concurrent sessions, where the same learning activities are conducted together.
While it is desirable to have on campus and online students join together in activities, there are technology limitations and potential audio issues and disturbances that may occur. For this reason, avoid mixing online and face-to-face students in synchronous group activity. It could hamper the student experience and make it challenging to communicate and discuss ideas as a group. All communication would need to be written to avoid audio feedback and to include online groups.
We recommend grouping online students together and those face-to-face together. If this is not possible, we recommend using either a Hybrid - Parallel or a Hybrid - Adaptive schedule for the unit. If you require support for Hybrid - Parallel (dual) or Hybrid - Adaptive, please view Take Teaching Online for resources and support and at the MEA Module Teaching in the Covid Era.
For more information and recommendations on these models, see Teach in different hybrid models.
Hybrid teaching relies on the technology in the teaching space, for more information view the Hybrid room technology guide. |
Teaching activities and their suitability for hybrid concurrent teaching
Below we present ideas for how you would implement a range of teaching activities in a Hybrid concurrent model.
- These activities and recommendations are based on a Hybrid teaching room that has a presenter camera with web conferencing and/or Zoom enabled.
- These activities also assume that you (the lecturer) would login to the in-venue PC with your own account details so that you can access Zoom with host functions such as breakout rooms and polling. When you leave the classroom, make sure to log off.
- Students are also expected to bring a laptop or mobile device and headphones to in person sessions.
These activities have been separated into three levels of difficulty based on technology and management of different components. It should be noted that group activities will require the most modification.
Easy - requires few modifications or considerations
Medium - requires some modifications or considerations
Hard - requires a lot of modifications or redesign
Please contact Scheduling Services if you want to discuss a change to a hybrid teaching room.