How can I establish, facilitate, and maintain each type of presence to ensure engagement in my course?

Consider how you will foster each type of presence in your course to maintain student engagement. It’s vital to success, especially for online and remote courses. As you’ll see, many of these strategies overlap and support multiple presences, leading to stronger engagement.

Social Presence and Engagement throughout a course

Creating and sustaining social presence in a course requires careful planning. For all courses, and especially online and remote courses, it’s important to be strategic about social opportunities in the course. Recall that many strategies for social presence will also support teaching and cognitive presence. Click on each bar in the timeline for more information.