Digital teaching
This page is a hub for resources and guides on moving your course partially or fully online. Here, we also offer you essential principles to guide your decisions.
Last updated: April 29, 2022, 5:02 p.m.
Teaching online
Deciding on what’s needed in your course should be guided by your course objectives and what you can reasonably expect of your students and yourself. The following are supports to help you with the different tasks necessary to move your entire course or a portion of your course online.

Get started
- Getting started with your online course (video)
- Synchronous and asynchronous learning
- Course design principles for live and online teaching
- Textbooks and other course materials
- Adapting labs and STEM courses to the online environment
- Moving your course meetings online
- Create online lessons and tutorials using the Lightboard Studio
Quickstart guides to technology-supported teaching
The following Online and Remote Teaching and Learning Quickstart Guides contain condensed portions of the CTL's Digital Teaching website.
We have organised the content so that the guides can be used together as rapid primers to help get you started. We strongly encourage using these guides in conjunction with the CTL's Digital teaching website. You can delve more deeply into the content at your own pace and according to your needs as you become more comfortable with the information presented. Begin with the Basic resource guide for introductory information then move on to the Enhanced, Improved, and Engaged guides for more high level support to help improve the planning and delivery of online and remote teaching and learning. The guides include links to complete resources available on the CTL's Digital teaching website.
New tool: Lightboard Studio
Get started creating content using Concordia's new lightboards!

Tool highlights
New studios equipped with a lightboard technology, recording equipment on the SGW and Loyola campuses are ready for use. Faculty and TAs are invited to create tutorials for students using a writeable LED glass surface. It's a great alternative to whiteboards and chalkboards and the work is recorded so it can be added to Moodle allowing students to follow and review course content at their own pace.
Essential principles
It is important that four core principles are respected: adopt Moodle, be accessible, protect privacy and be aware of your intellectual property.
Quick tips
You must activate your Zoom enhanced licence before using Zoom for the first time.
Please refer to Running a Live Zoom Session or instructions on setting up a Zoom account for Instructors and TAs.