hyderabad as educational institutions across the country are embracing online teaching the international institute of information technology hyderabad iiith will be offering a certificate course for college faculty in online pedagogytools and skills required for recording video lectures creating interactive content on popular learning management systems lms among other topics will be covered during the course whose inaugural session will be held on august 17one of the most important aspects of online teaching is evaluation and grading for which various options will be presented the course will also cover the best practices for organizing tutorial and lab sessions read a release from the institute adding that as the approaches pedagogy models techniques tips and tricks of online education are still elusive this course offered by iiith faculty will attempt to address these challengesduring the course duration of one week the faculty will learn pedagogical principles in an online setting software tools for online teaching lms video recording and editing video conferencing platform discussion forum and evaluation tools they will be trained to set up a simple online classroom using a computer along with techniques to use camera light and hardware toolsthe course will also cover topics such as creating and sharing course material in a structured fashion on lms conducting interactive classes and tutorials organising course flow such that it includes continuous evaluation like quizzes among others