Classroom Management for Online Learning
Online and Blended Learning, Classroom Management | K-12



The online learning environment presents a unique challenge for classroom management. Whether you’re teaching fully online or just using online elements as part of in-person instruction, it’s difficult to keep students engaged, on task, and interacting respectfully in this setting.
In this course, you’ll get the tools you need to create a classroom management strategy specifically for online learning, no matter what percentage of your instruction takes place online. You’ll learn how to create an engaging classroom environment, build community, establish rules and procedures, and create student-centered structures in an online setting. You’ll also plan for different types of interactions (student to teacher, student to content, and student to student), ways to prevent off-task behaviors, and strategies for managing off-task behaviors when they do occur.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to confidently build and manage any level of online instruction to maximize learning for all students.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Tools and strategies designed to support classroom management in the online teaching environment
- Supportive structures for teaching and learning, parent engagement, and student-centered learning to support classroom management in the online classroom
- Proactive and reactive considerations related to off-task student behaviors
- Discussion of characteristics unique to the online classroom that impact overall classroom management and how to navigate them
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Implement strategies for creating and maintaining an engaging online classroom that promotes student participation.
- Plan ways to create classroom community in the online teaching environment.
- Create norms and routines for online teaching and learning.
- Foster student-centered learning in the online learning environment.
- Implement strategies for reducing and managing off-task student behavior in the online classroom.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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