Who are your students? ​Here are some prompts to get you started.
General considerations
● Who are the students for
whom you’re designing
or planning (age, grade,
level etc)?
● Where are they in their
overall course of study?
● Who might they rely on to
help them or facilitate
their learning (particularly
important with young
students, teens or young
adults)?
Some may not be relevant to you, and there are many more important factors depending on your context…what questions
have we missed?
Digital literacies, connectivity,
accessibility
● What physical setting might they be
in when engaging with you or your
teaching?
● What devices or connectivity might
they have access to?
● How comfortable are they with the
internet?
● How digitally literate are they?
● Have they previously learned online?
(Remember, that doesn’t have to be
formal - they may have watched
instructional videos for recipes,
collated information to choose a
holiday, planned a route, or learned a
dance on TikTok)
Study skills, health, pastoral support
● How adept are they with time
management, personal planning,
autonomy?
● How might the sudden move from
physical educational space to online
context impact their mental or
emotional health?
● What health or accessibility issues
might have a different impact on their
ability to succeed with online learning
than on their success with traditional
learning?
● What emotional factors or external
stressors might impact their ability to
succeed?
  

General considerations 

What is the class or subject area? 

 
 
 

Who are the students for whom you’re designing or planning (age, grade, level etc)? 

 
 
 
 

Where are they in their overall course of study? 

 
 
 
 

Who might they rely on to help them or facilitate their learning (particularly important with young students, teens or young adults)? 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
  

Digital literacies, connectivity, accessibility 

What physical setting might they be in when engaging with you or your teaching? 

 
 
 

What devices or connectivity might they have access to? 

 
 
 

How comfortable are they with the internet? How do they use it outside of education? 

 
 

How digitally literate are they?  

 
 

Have they previously learned online? (Remember, that doesn’t have to be formal - they may have watched instructional videos for 
recipes, collated information to choose a holiday, planned a route, or learned a dance on TikTok) 

 
 
 
 

 
  

Study skills, health, pastoral support 

How adept are they with time management, personal planning, autonomy? 

 
 
 

How might the sudden move from physical educational space to online context impact their mental or emotional health? 

 
 
 
 

What health or accessibility issues might have a different impact on their ability to succeed with online learning than on their 
success with traditional learning? 

 
 
 

What emotional factors or external stressors might impact their ability to succeed?