Practice Drills

You may find it helpful to perform “drills” to test your preparedness, and that of your students, to use alternate forms of instruction. We suggest that you perform the following practice drills:

• Send students a welcome email that contains your contact information. Tell students to save this email in a safe place. Maintain a copy for your own records. This ensures that you have students’ email information, and students have your all of your contact information.
• Teach one class period through Blackboard. This will give you and your students a chance to become familiar with the environment that will be used if classroom instruction must be interrupted.
• Work from home for a day to ensure that you can maintain contact with key personnel and retrieve necessary documents from your office computer.