For Your Course Outline

• Land acknowledgment (learn the importance of this here)
• How to address instructor (e.g., Prof. X, Dr. X, first name, or other) and their pronouns
• How students can contact the instructor (e.g., email, after class, student hours, Brightspace forum)
• Marking scheme with built-in flexibility
• Technology checklist (tools required for the course and tools that may be new to students)
• Student hours (office hours renamed)
• Community guidelines (i.e. codes of conduct)
• Carleton University expectations of student behaviour online
• Accommodations: PMC, Pregnancy, Religious (Interfaith calendar)
• Academic integrity statement
• CU mental health resources
• Human Rights Policy
• Sexual Violence Policy

Have you considered?

• Incorporating flexibility into your course by allowing students to drop the lowest quiz/assignment mark
• Using multiple assignments/quizzes/exams to lower stakes and promote an inclusive learning environment
• Allowing for multiple modes of expression (E.g., Assignments that can be completed as written work, videos, podcasts, completed individually or in groups)
• Explicitly communicating with students about workload expectations (E.g., Plan for X hours of reading/studying/problem-solving each week in addition to lecture time)