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Online teaching is different from fact to face teaching. You will need to begin to build a learning community in your course right out the gate. Community building impacts student retention and satisfaction. Building a learning community fosters a sense of shared goals amongst you, the instructor, and the students. In this module, we will review community-building activities such as teacher presence, engagement and interaction with students. Here are a couple of tips that you can use to build community with your learners: Communicate clear expectations, and create engaging synchronous (real-time) sessions for your class.

• Be able to list at least 3 examples of how to build (presence) community in your online course.
• Understand how your role changes from teaching face-to-face to being a facilitator in an online course.
• Understand how to engage students in your online course.