Facilitation Tips
10 tips for facilitating remotely
Use your institution's Digital Workspace to centralize all the useful information about your session.
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Arkhé
The Arkhe Team
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- Use your institution's Digital Workspace. Familiar to students, this space can gather all the useful information about your session: schedule, login URL, resource documents, and more.
- Keep your teams to 4 players to make communication within groups easier.
- Share a detailed schedule from the very start of the session. That way, every player knows the deadlines and meeting times to keep.
- Specify which communication channels to favor. Call, email, video, players need to know how to reach out to the facilitator.
- Offer time slots to make sure you connect with each team at every round of decisions.
- Communicate with ALL the players. Remotely, you have to be extra vigilant to keep every player involved. During team check-ins, the facilitator can ask that all players be present.
- Adapt your schedule. Remotely, attention spans are shorter. So avoid running into the evenings and allow a bit of flexibility for submissions over the lunch break.
- When work is submitted, ask teams to systematically add the team number as a prefix to the file name.
- Block players' access to the ranking to spark their curiosity right up until the final wrap-up.
- Create a playful atmosphere and show plenty of goodwill (even more than usual).
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