Online learning can happen via any number of online means. How much or how little you do depends on your access to technology for you and your students, your own comfort level, and support available.

When COVID-19 hit Canada, most universities had to move quickly to online instruction. When this happened to us, we created Pivot to Digital, which we intended as the simplest possible guide to emergency remote teaching.

As the pandemic continued, we collected resources on Learning Design and Learning Technology in a resource we named Teaching Unbound.

In the majority of cases, online instruction is delivered through a specialized system known as a learning management system (LMS), or virtual learning environment (VLE). These systems typically allow for the presentation of learning resources, activities, quizzes, and the integration of other tools such as video chat.

At TRU, our standard LMS is Moodle: https://moodle.org/

It requires a TRU ID to access, but we will demo a few things at: https://moodle.tru.ca. We have integrated video conference and video platforms, as well as added support for H5P resources, which can be quite useful.

We’ve developed a Moodle resource that is intended to directly address the most common questions and problems that our users tend to have: https://moodleorientation.trubox.ca/.

While there are many other possible approaches and tools to support online learning, it might be worth a look at open educational resources (OER). TRU has a good collection of resources at https://libguides.tru.ca/oer. And there do seem to be some robust collections in Ukrainian and about Ukraine.