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- Clearly communicated with participants on where and how often to check notifications

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Check in for feedback on time an activity takes to complete
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- Grouping and assigning group roles
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Be specific in your expectations.
Effective grouping.
Divide moodle discussions according to topic, region, language

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Check out the climate within the room and detect if the forum is working for the participants. If not, choose a different engagement/forum type to meet their needs.
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-Make participants aware politely;
-Be specific
-Give precise instructions.
-Allow for mistakes to happen. Do not publicly shame someone for publishing in the wrong forum.
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Clarity about each forum
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- Screenshots or screencastify to help clarify where are the right place for posting what
- Office hour/ hold an online session to help clear the air
- Keep the communication channel open
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Use announcements to give a notice of which is the right forum if several participants are in error. If only a few email them privately.
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Correct renaming of forum
Mindful and aware of the platform more accessible
Make connections first and then collaborate
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Reaching out privately to understand intentions and prompting them to use the correct forum
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Connect and correct kindly so as not to embarrass him/her
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Choose the forum that matches the best for the information that you want to share
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Send daily or weekly communications
Clear communication, bullets instead of blocks of text
Labelled reference information
Simple and precise
Expectations for module, not whole workshops
Hide module by module
Wrap up note for modules as they end, transition information
Easy way to ask questions
Check for understanding

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Set clear expectation - Address expectations  continuously- be visible (virtually) to your participants.

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-Always communicate clearly
-set clear expectations at the beginning
-address the expectations continuously
-be visible to participants

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- ongoing reminders and regular updates
- encourage networking among participants
- Set expectations at the start
- make sure there are opportunities for communication (confidential and personal)
-  include welcome email and be reinforced
- Set the tone at the beginning
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-Including bullet points explaining what to do.
-Make sure expectations are always accessible/visible at all times.
-Building essential agreements.
- provide feedback and support.
-Confirm understanding constantly.
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being crystal clear with instructions and every step of the process... pause... any questions... check for understanding... iron out misunderstandings first
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similar to classroom management
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Connect with participants and explain how they did not meet expectations and provide feedback and support for improvement. Allow them to resubmit. Direct them to specific resources and examples. Reinforce and clarify key words for expectations. Ensure instructions are clear. Check for possible language barriers or clarifications needed.
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Clear Explanation and clear expectations
Instructions can be short-bullet points
Explicit with objectives and revisiting often
Details are released in step by step manner
Having schedule shared

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Have some different channels to communicate with the participants.
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Set the expectations and end goal is clear. Encourage the participants to communicate. maintaining the appropriate commentary length - numerical qualifiers , which makes it equity and accessible. Momentum and engaging is important. Keep the reminders Checking for understanding of the task is important. Have criteria - Must have
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Set expectations
Post the expectations on the announcement section

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It's important to connect with participants sometimes individually about expectations for them
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Provide data early to support the correlation of group participation to group success
Keeping a timeline - preplanning
Keeping in touch, making connection, building relationships
Clarity of instructions
Essential agreements to frame expectations
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- Check in constantly with the participants
- Be clear in the instruction and expectations

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- provide clear instructions
-use sentence stems
-specify the length of the post
- ask probing questions.
-clarify expectations
-specify minimum and maximum length of posts.
- request valuable and to-the-point feedback/posts
- give scaffold
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Ensure there is access to the information giving enough time to complete or use it.

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Too little - check participation in the course, send reminders with encouragement
Too much - give examples through positive examples and feedback.

Make expectations clear (frequency and quantity, quality) and present a structure. Rubric with guidelines.

First remind group, if it repeats have individual conversation
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Too Little- asking a probing question to encourage participants to explain
Constant Monitoring by facilitator
Feetforward and feedback
Clearly specify the min or max Points eg 2 or 3 points
Too Much-Specify the structure of the post eg how and what
Setting Time limits

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Make it clear how long the comment is. What points should be covered. More specific directions on commenting.
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Communicate expectations of your in a timely fashion. Providing boundaries and guidelines for participants
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Making our expectations are clear, but limit our directions. Bullet point ideas.
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Striking a balance
Getting feedback from the participants if they are overrun with information.
Have at least one synchronous meeting with the participants.
Understand the timeline of the task and set tasks accordingly.

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Clarity and purpose of communication is important in a concise way.
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Clarifying what's needed
The amount of detail needed
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1. Feedback on individual posts (this is too long/short, etc.)
2. Feedback on short posts to guide
3. Establishing norms at the start of the workshop
4. Being proactive & providing modeled answers
5. Suggested number of words
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motivate the participants to re work on their response / assignments
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Be clear from the beginning the expectations

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Peer assessments- provides another angle
clear rubric
Announce deadline
Planning a good assessment keeping in mind the time
What criteria is being assessed
Self assessment
Appreciation for those who giving their best
Provide assistance
Initial survey makes a big difference to know the time frame etc
Feedback
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Keeping assessments streamlined and organized so time is spent by participants doing them, not looking for resources, getting frustrated, etc.
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Show compassion and understanding. Work out a schedule. Give extensions
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1. Allow participants to work ahead
2. Contact participants
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Checklist and schedules with clear dates and expectations
Check in and see if there are any barriers (did a life event or emergency happen?)
Offer individual support via email or call
Encourage people to ask if there is an issue

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Be positive and try to support the participant.
Always open for participants to make it up once or twice, but it shouldn’t be a habit.
We don’t contact the coordinator without consulting the field rep or facilitator.
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Be honest. Have a dialogue and be flexible
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1. Use of pacing document that is updated regularly (spreadsheet)
2. Set of deadlines front & center, reminded, emailed, etc.
3. Particular issue with online formats
4. Offering synchronous sessions (weekly); different time zone considerations & record sessions (for access later)
5. Establishing trust & rapport early on (answering messages quickly, taking time to help participants early on, remembering how confusing things can be for participants)
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Connect with the participant one on one to support them and know their concern.
Reconsider your assessments.
Provide an example to do your tasks.

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clarify the point to them
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check consistently with the participant and encourage them
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Do a group work or pair and WSL to move around and have a discussions. Have a different grouping throughout the workshop. Gallery walk and give feedback. GLOW and GROW is a good forum to have a meaningful discussions. Have a open ended questions and establishing safety. Having a choice of questions are important. SLIDo app can be used for audience interactions.
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Assigning roles
Tech Tools in grouping
Choosing more appropriate tools which encourage collaboration

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Larger groups can be better for meaningful discussion. Small achievable tasks with extra time allowed for discussion afterward.
Creating some opportunities for smaller group discussions in break out groups.
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Offer breakout rooms or small groups if f2f
Divide and vary roles, groups, and assignment types
Use collaborative tools and apps eg. Padlet or Jamboard or poster board so all can share and add even if not time to speak
Keep track of participation and leadership and let all have a voice and are participating
Essential agreements about sharing and presenting
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Prepare differentiated learning engagements to keep the groups engaged if you do not have a co leader.
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Good example of this in this Padlet
Jamboards/rooms in small groups that can feed back main ideas
F2F this can also work
Assign roles so everyone is engaged
Essential agreement that everyone participates
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Breakout in smaller groups
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- promote collaboration
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If there is a common working timing, where notifications is sent. Set the office time. Mute the group chat. Allow the participants to facilitate the discussion. Use coffee corner, to connect with other participants.
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consider and reflect on the design of the course... feedback issue to the course designers
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check in, ensure collaboration, breaking down the bigger ideas through conversations
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- Include the time frame for the activity
- Make sure the assessments are meaningful to serve the objective
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Giving prompt questions to encourage reluctant/hesitant participants
Guidelines for each engagement
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Have discussion forums and review
Have a FAQ section for repetitive and frequent questions
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Do not feel you need to reply to every discussion post but keep a balance of responses

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- Provide checklists with engagements and links.
- Contact the person and provide guidance.

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Provide data early to support the correlation of group participation to group success

Keeping a timeline - preplanning

Keeping in touch, making connection, building relationships

Clarity of instructions

Essential agreements to frame expectations

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- Check in constantly with the participants
- Be clear in the instruction and expectations

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Small achievable tasks with extra time allowed for discussion afterwards.
Creating some opportunities for smaller group discussions in break-out groups. (Groups around 5 are best)

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Friendly reminders if someone is falling behind

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Offer breakout rooms or small groups if f2f
Divide and vary roles, groups, and assignment types
Use collaborative tools and apps eg. Padlet or Jamboard or poster board so all can share and add even if not time to speak
Keep track of participation and leadership and let all have a voice and are participating
Essential agreements about sharing and presenting

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Divide the participants by themes

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will be different issues / challenges depending on whether synchronous (virtual) or online (asynchronous) / face-to-face (synchronous with full body language)

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Personalised reminder
Peer assessments- provides another angle
clear rubric
Announce deadline
Planning a good assessment keeping in mind the time
What criteria is being assessed
Self assessment
Appreciation for those who giving their best
Provide assistance
Initial survey makes a big difference to know the time frame etc
Feedback

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Try to catch the situation early so appropriate supports can be offered

Keeping assessments streamlined and organized so time is spent by participants doing them, not looking for resources, getting frustrated, etc.

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- provide clear instructions
-use sentence stems
-specify the length of the post
- ask probing questions.
-clarify expectations
-specify minimum and maximum length of posts.
- request valuable and to-the-point feedback/posts
- give scaffold

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carefully consider workshop guidelines and objectives... refer to this to help gauge desired lengths of contributions

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Ensure there is access to the information giving enough time to complete or use it.

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Divide the class into small groups.
Prepare differentiated learning engagements to keep the groups engaged if you do not have a co leader.

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Have agreements, motivate those who are not posting, and give feedback to make them understand the size of the post

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Have agreements, motivate those who are not posting, and give feedback to make them understand the size of the post

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Show compassion and understanding. Work out a schedule. Give extensions

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Show compassion and understanding. Work out a schedule. Give extensions

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It is important that group communication roles and responsibilities are agreed on. These need to published and everyone being aware of where to find these.

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Send daily or weekly communications
Clear communication, bullets instead of blocks of text
Labelled reference information
Simple and precise
Expectations for module, not whole workshops
Hide module by module
Wrap up note for modules as they end, transition information
Easy way to ask questions
Check for understanding

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give templates / sample responses

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1. Allow participants to work ahead
2. Contact participants

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Let participate know the expectations for completing the workshop

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Let participate know the expectations for completing the workshop

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Checklist and schedules with clear dates and expectations
Check in and see if there are any barriers (did a life event or emergency happen?)
Offer individual support via email or call
Encourage people to ask if there is an issue
Get feedback on best time to send new resources and assignments to see if they need more time to read ahead

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Be positive and try to support the participant.
Always open for participants to make it up once or twice, but it shouldn’t be a habit.
We don’t contact the coordinator without consulting the field rep or facilitator.

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when online, WSL must regularly check in to forums, especially to assess collaborations, ensure posts are not too brief, wen v brief ask further questions to tease more out of participants... extension quetions

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Be honest. Have a dialogue and be flexible

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Check out the climate within the room and detect if the forum is working for the participants. If not, choose a different engagement/forum type to meet their needs.

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5- Always communicate very clearly, and reflect appropriate facilitation strategies

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5- Always communicate very clearly, and reflect appropriate facilitation strategies

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Set clear expectation - Address expectations  continuously- be visible (virtually) to your participants.

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due to workshop time limits... carefully plan timings, communicate and keep to them

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Good example of this in this Padlet

Jamboards/rooms in small groups that can feed back main ideas

F2F this can also work

Assign roles so everyone is engaged

Essential agreement that everyone participates

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-Always communicate clearly
-set clear expectations at the beginning
-address the expectations continuously
-be visible to participants

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Too little - check participation in the course, send reminders with encouragement
Too much - give examples through positive examples and feedback.

Make expectations clear (frequency and quantity, quality) and present a structure. Rubric with guidelines.

First remind group, if it repeats have individual conversation

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Provide a mechanism to 'checklist' and keep up with progress. Sending reminders to the group and reaching out privately to participants who are struggling to engage.

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- ongoing reminders and regular updates
- encourage networking among participants
- Set expectations at the start
- make sure there are opportunities for communication (confidential and personal)
-  include welcome email and be reinforced
- Set the tone at the beginning

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If there is a common working timing, where notifications is sent. Set the office time. Mute the group chat. Allow the participants to facilitate the discussion. Use coffee corner, to connect with other participants.

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Too Little- asking a probing question to encourage participants to explain
Constant Monitoring by facilitator
Feetforward and feedback
Clearly specify the min or max Points eg 2 or 3 points
Too Much-Specify the structure of the post eg how and what
Setting Time limits

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think pair share to harness peer clarifications

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-Including bullet points explaining what to do.
-Make sure expectations are always accessible/visible at all times.
-Building essential agreements.
- provide feedback and support.
-Confirm understanding constantly.

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being crystal clear with instructions and every step of the process... pause... any questions... check for understanding... iron out misunderstandings first

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Our group's ideas below:
1. Use of pacing document that is updated regularly (spreadsheet)
2. Set of deadlines front & center, reminded, emailed, etc.
3. Particular issue with online formats
4. Offering synchronous sessions (weekly); different time zone considerations & record sessions (for access later)
5. Establishing trust & rapport early on (answering messages quickly, taking time to help participants early on, remembering how confusing things can be for participants)

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Follow-up questions
Make it clear how long the comment is. What points should be covered. More specific directions on commenting.

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build essential agreements from the beginning
similar to classroom management

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Allow for mistakes to happen and continue to clarify . Do not publically shame someone for publishing in the wrong forum.

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Allow for mistakes to happen and continue to clarify . Do not publically shame someone for publishing in the wrong forum.

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Give a little more structure. Perhaps amount of words used.

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utilize office hours

burning question

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Connect with participants and explain how they did not meet expectations and provide feedback and support for improvement. Allow them to resubmit. Direct them to specific resources and examples. Reinforce and clarify key words for expectations. Ensure instructions are clear. Check for possible language barriers or clarifications needed.

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Be clear and detailed in a limited amount of messages.

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Set up some office hours.
Connect with the participant one on one to support them and know their concern.
Reconsider your assessments.
Provide an example to do your tasks.

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hopefully you get a co-workshop leader! :)

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Break out into smaller groups and use a variety of strategies to keep them engaged. Mix up groupings more frequently to keep the conversation fresh

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Communicate expectations of your in a timely fashion. Providing boundaries and guidelines for participants

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Come up with protocol that sets the tone for how to respond to messages.

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-Make participants aware politely;
-Be specific
-Give precise instructions.
-Allow for mistakes to happen. Do not publicly shame someone for publishing in the wrong forum.

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clarifying our expectation - be specific, give very clear instruction

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clarifying our expectation - be specific, give very clear instruction

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Lack of clarity about each of the forums

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Lack of clarity about each of the forums

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Clarity about each forum

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get everyone's commitment to pairing and sharing

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Clear Explanation and clear expectations
Instructions can be short-bullet points
Explicit with objectives and revisiting often
Details are released in step by step manner
Having schedule shared

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- Screenshots or screencastify to help clarify where are the right place for posting what
- Office hour/ hold an online session to help clear the air
- Keep the communication channel open

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use of break out rooms to have smaller group
- promote collaboration

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Use announcements to give a notice of which is the right forum if several participants are in error. If only a few email them privately.

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Making our expectations are clear, but limit our directions. Bullet point ideas.

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Striking a balance
Getting feedback from the participants if they are overrun with information.
Have at least one synchronous meeting with the participants.
Understand the timeline of the task and set tasks accordingly.

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Use some online tools just like padlets or Jamboard for discussion

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Joint construction of expectations and mutual agreements to maximise buy-in

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Group 4 WSL should be proactive and having clear expectations from the beginning.

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Group 4 WSL should be proactive and having clear expectations from the beginning.

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consider and reflect on the design of the course... feedback issue to the course designers

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Essential agreement
Clear strategy
Correct renaming of forum
Mindful and aware of the platform more accessible
Make connections first and then collaborate

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Reaching out privately to understand intentions and prompting them to use the correct forum

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Clarity and purpose of communication is important in a concise way.

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Clarity and purpose of communication is important in a concise way.

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Breakout rooms if virtual or smaller groups for in person workshops

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check in, ensure collaboration, breaking down the bigger ideas through conversations

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The amount of detail needed

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Our group's ideas:
1. Feedback on individual posts (this is too long/short, etc.)
2. Feedback on short posts to guide
3. Establishing norms at the start of the workshop
4. Being proactive & providing modeled answers
5. Suggested number of words

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offer an "office hours" to try to clarify any repeated questions

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Set the expectations and end goal is clear. Encourage the participants to communicate. maintaining the appropriate commentary length - numerical qualifiers , which makes it equity and accessible. Momentum and engaging is important. Keep the reminders Checking for understanding of the task is important. Have criteria - Must have

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Group 4 Connect and correct kindly so as not to embarrass him/her

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Group 4 Connect and correct kindly so as not to embarrass him/her

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make sure that you share all the resources and links clearly

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motivate the participants to re work on their response / assignments

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Be clear from the beginning the expectations

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Landing page for the workshop
Set expectations
Post the expectations on the announcement section