{"id":25496,"date":"2020-12-06T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=25496"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:27:41","slug":"how-will-you-handle-these-common-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2020\/how-will-you-handle-these-common-scenarios\/","title":{"rendered":"How will you handle these common scenarios?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        How will you handle these common scenarios?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>You have a lot to balance teaching online right now. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Link-to-Twitter-Post-12-How-will-you-handle-these-common-scenarios-Infographic.pdf\">infographic<\/a> highlights some common situations that may arise during the term around technical issues, family concerns, illness, frontline workers and mental health, so that you can think about these issues ahead of time and save yourself some stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider creating a table indicating how you will respond if these situations do occur for your students \u2013 you may even wish to include email language so you don\u2019t have to worry about it later. Don\u2019t forget your compassion. When students share personal situations with you, acknowledge them with compassion (e.g., thank you for your email &#8211; I am glad you were comfortable enough to share that with me) &#8211; even if what follows is, \u201cUnfortunately, I cannot accommodate an extension on this assignment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also use \u2018best of\u2019 for certain assessments (e.g., best 8\/10) or build some \u2018assignment forgiveness\u2019 into your course design (e.g., allowing students to submit X number of assessments 48 hours late without penalty).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Link-to-Twitter-Post-12-How-will-you-handle-these-common-scenarios-Infographic.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Common-Scenarios-Infographic-240x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Common-Scenarios-Infographic-240x600.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Common-Scenarios-Infographic-160x400.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Common-Scenarios-Infographic-400x1000.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Common-Scenarios-Infographic-615x1536.jpeg 615w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Common-Scenarios-Infographic-360x900.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/Common-Scenarios-Infographic.jpeg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Click on the image for a full-size version.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have a lot to balance teaching online right now. Our infographic highlights some common situations that may arise during the term around technical issues, family concerns, illness, frontline workers and mental health, so that you can think about these issues ahead of time and save yourself some stress. Consider creating a table indicating how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43148,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions\/43148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}