Online Peer Learning Strategies

Summarise the Lecture
As a group, summarise the lecture from the previous class. You may have to provide prompts for the students. ...

Use Visuals as a Prompt
- Ask students/ Leaders to bring a picture on a particular fun topic (e.g. celebrities / travel / ...

Two Truths and a Lie
Individually, each student writes down, in a shared Word Document or OneNote, three statements derived from a ...

Profile Pictures
Encourage everyone to upload a friendly profile photo so that even when you have your webcams turned off, you can still ...

Knowledge Tree
This activity allows the opportunity for students to think in depth about the knowledge they hold. 
Using Microsoft Whiteboard or awwapp.com, ...

Reading Groups
This activity is useful for revising texts and promoting further discussion.
1. In small groups, encourage students to read and ...

What I Know

In a OneNote or Word document, create three columns and title them 'What I Know'(K), 'What I Want ...

Quick Polls
You could start a session with some fun quiz questions and polls to gather responses anonymously, or to cover course ...

Identify the 'Big Idea'

Ask each student to share with the group what they thought was the most important concept, idea ...

Introductory Activities

Use Music to Lighten the Mood

•       Play light background music while group members are joining the ...

Jigsaw
This activity requires 4-6 students and is a method of making the group dependent on each other for gathering information. 
The large group ...

Presenting Practice
Within your meetings on Microsoft Teams, you could either give students an opportunity to present their current work, or ...

One Minute Paper

The one-minute-paper is designed to help students realise what they know or do not know i.e. it is ...

Setting the Agenda
In your session, use a OneNote or Word document and get the students to write down:
1. Something urgent they ...

Debate
As a group, each individual has an opportunity to comment on a particular topic or idea which is being discussed by ...

Webcam backgrounds
Suggest everyone changes their backgrounds to a photo of their choice that they can use to introduce themselves to their peers ...

Visuals
This activity is a fun way for  students to generate and gather ideas, similar to a concept map but more ...

Timeline

This  is useful for helping students to identify milestones which may occur at similar times when deadlines are taking place. ...

Concept Maps and Mind Maps

Concept maps amd  mind maps are useful stools for gathering ideas and forming connections.

There are ...

Share and Compare
This activity is useful to encourage students to work together and share resources, tools, and methods of learning. 

Example 1: ...

Scavenger Hunts
Ask students to gather objects from around their home within a fixed time - then share via the webcam. A ...

Tweet Challenge

This  is a useful activity to help students to summarise a topic, theory, or concept using minimal words ...