Communication
Tools to help you communicate with students outside of face-to-face meetings
Introduction
When you don't have regular face-to-face meetings, communicating clearly and often with your students is even more important. Use the following tools to interact with your class.
Messaging
You can send communications to students via Learning Suite Messages and have group interactions. Also, if you and your students enable notifications, you can keep on top of who and when people reply. For more information see https://lsinfo.byu.edu/ls-communications.
You can send emails to individuals, groups, or your entire class using Learning Suite's email feature.
You can also use the Class Roll tool in MyBYU to communicate via email.
Announcements
You can use Announcements in Learning Suite to post important information that you need your students to have access to (like the link to your Zoom meeting, announcing changes to the course schedule, etc.).
See https://lsinfo.byu.edu/ls-communications and for more information.
Digital Dialog
Digital Dialog, part of BYU Learning Suite, facilitates class discussion, participation, and collaboration. Digital Dialog provides a multimedia discussion board for professors and students. Instructors can post audio, video, or text prompts for students who can then reply in a forum fashion.
See https://lsinfo.byu.edu/digital-dialog for more information.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams gives users a remote presence through video and audio conferencing, group chat collaboration, and screen and file sharing. BYU has an institution-wide license, so using Teams is free for BYU faculty and students.
BYU's Office of IT has put together a thorough resource to help you use this service at teams.byu.edu.