Face-to-face materials don’t transfer online without checks. Know the platform, test every resource in it, plan group work for breakout rooms, and have plan B and C before day one.
Checklist
- Test slides in the platform: visibility, font size, colour contrast (dyslexia, colour-blindness), writing space.
- Check access from learners’ countries (blocked sites); prepare alternatives.
- Breakout rooms: are tools available there? who monitors? a student chair; peer and self-assessment sheets.
- Plans B/C: crashes, drop-outs, audio lag, time zones.
- Recording rules, data protection, how recordings are shared.
- Upload all materials before class.
Apply in my context (Claude)
- The same audit applies to Telegram-based homework and the homeschool platform: test on a cheap Android phone on mobile data, not on a laptop on Wi-Fi.
Connections
Telegram as a low-bandwidth blended learning platform · Solutionism - define the problem before the technology