All of my faculty took the time to seriously increase their knowledge and abilities with online tools for instruction.

Those that did participate had a more intimate experience because everyone was online at the same time.

1) More opportunity to train to improve online courses 2) Ability to consider and design hybrid courses Students and faculty indicated the change was not as difficult as anticipated.

The change offered an opportunity to use new teaching methods and new technologies

The crisis pushed us to think about how to be more inclusive in the future. Many of our students have children and may have trouble attending events on campus so we want to consider hosting events virtually or recording on campus events to provide more students access even when we are able to host events on campus again.

One of the most positive outcomes I can think of is from a student. She's an adult learner who got ill with Covid and she reached out to me to say that she would be happy to talk with any students who might get the virus so she could help them with it. Based on the unknowns of it, her fears as she went through it, and her loss of concentration to work on her classes, she felt she could be of help.

I was able to do a lot of remote 1-1 mentoring with students which was nice and in my case I think we learned how to appreciate at each other in a different way than a typical semester - a lot of grace going both directions and a sense that we were figuring this out together.

The vast majority of our instructors received outstanding SETEs. It was clear that most went above and beyond to be present for their students. One colleague even mailed handwritten cards to each of their students, and offered open 'hangout' office hours.

The extremely positive SETEs and comments, sometimes in emails, from students about how their instructors really went the extra mile and did everything to help their students in Spring 20, when we went online. Students were very grateful.

One positive was how faculty in our department were so helpful to one another in addressing the challenges of remote teaching. We had several junior and relatively senior faculty members assist faculty needing training or background in remote teaching tools. The comradery was quite impressive and re-assuring. Students expressed their appreciation for engagement and support from faculty . Recognizing faculty commitment, care, and creativity.

Faculty members are more willing to develop online courses now that they are more familiar with this delivery method.

Some of the faculty that I didn't think would do well in the shift to online teaching rose to the challenge.

Faculty and students have to work harder to overcome this challenge due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

I was surprised by how well the transition to remote teaching went. Two/Thirds of our faculty had taught online at some point, and everyone had been using eCourseware in some form for their classes anyway. I was impressed by how dedicated my colleagues were trying to make the best out of a really bad situation.

Faculty are actually more receptive to the idea that we could offer an entire degree program online. There has been tremendous resistance to such a notion in the past.