What do I need to do to be prepared? Have you thought through and tested the scenario that you may need to work remotely or from home?Consider:where will you be?what devices, information and connection will you have?what systems are you going to need to access?how are you going to carry out tasks and responsibilities when not on campus or face to face? Go through this checklist to see if there are things you might need to do to be fully prepared.The work and teach from home checklist is a start point to understand if you are ready to continue working from home.Talk to your Head of School/Manager if your checklist reveals gaps.

Complete the ‘Work and Teach at Home’ checklist. Do you have the right access and equipment?Create a Zoom account and go through the staff Zoom guide.Test Zoom, does your microphone and webcam work?Get to know VStream to record lectures, or more importantly, create concept videos from home.Check your Blackboard course. Do your students know who you are, how to contact you, who your tutors are, who is the class rep and what key dates are coming up.Read the Course Continuity Checklist, and associated guides, and review against your own courses.

Key tools are now available for you to work and teach online.Follow these quick actions to make sure you are ready and have the right tools to make the online switch 

Our best advice is to keep it simple. Focus on empathising first, empowering second, and engaging third.Hopefully the tips and links below will help you with this.