COVID-19 support resources | Lark for distance teaching and learning
Has been announced to be provided free of charge to educational institutions, Lark has been presented to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as one of the distance learning solutions to mitigate the effects of school closures due to the spread of the new coronavirus.
Lark is a one-stop-shop for assignments, notes, project work, class schedule and more, giving you the tools you need to win. The best practices below offer practical solutions to common scenarios such as teaching remotely, grading student’s work, and working on group projects with the features of Lark calendar, video meetings, docs and workplace.
Keep on top of course schedule
Lark Calendar is the perfect tool for keeping your life organized from timetables for yourself and your classes to meetings with colleagues and external parties. You can use Calendar to create and sync course schedules and provide easy access for students. To create schedules for different types of courses, such as mandatory and elective classes, simply add new calendars. Students can then subscribe to relevant calendars to see their courses, which are displayed as events with specific dates and times. You can also edit an event to add lecture materials for students to read before class, or invite people who need to attend a particular class to the corresponding event.
Use Meetings for distance learning
Learning does not have to stop just because you aren’t in class. For classes with 100 people or less, a video conferencing is available for up to 24 hours per session Teachers and students share each other’s screens and realize a class with a sense of unity. A recording function is also provided so that students who could not attend the class can view it later. You can also share your lecture materials as Docs to let everyone in the meeting discuss and even co-edit them in real time.
For even bigger classes, you can livestream a video meeting and copy and share the livestream link. Students can open the link using a web browser to watch the livestream. Each livestream supports millions of viewers. You can also record the session so students can easily review the lecture after class.
Assign and grade homework
With Lark Docs, the process of assigning and grading homework is made seamless and easy, allowing teachers to mark and grade assignments online and allowing students to receive timely feedback.
In addition to simple text editing, Docs supports the insertion of images, tables, files, and more. This makes it easy for students to submit different types of homework assignments. And for instructors, you can give feedback in various ways by commenting on specific pieces of text or leaving comments at the bottom of the document to give overall feedback. You can also click the thumbs-up icon at the bottom of a document to let students know it’s a job well done!
Use Docs for group projects
Group projects often require a lot of discussion and collaboration. With Docs, group members can collaborate on a document at the same time and complete the project efficiently.
You can insert a table for project management and track the progress of each task. You can also edit the document with others in real time. With Lark Drive, all changes are saved automatically, and everyone will see the latest version without having to send files back and forth.
In addition, you can leave or reply to comments and @ mention relevant students, who will then receive an instant Lark notification. Since there’s no need to worry about missed messages, collaboration and communication are much more effective.
Create groups to better collaborate
With Lark, communication between faculty, teachers, students, parents and other groups becomes super simple. Use Lark’s rich Messenger feature to create class groups and let your students explore their creativity as they learn and collaborate.
Integrate relevant distance teaching apps
With Lark’s approval feature, available on both mobile and desktop, you can create elegant approval processes for things like leave and expenses in minutes with Lark’s no-code, low-code approach. Besides, Lark’s workplace also provides hundreds of integrated programs from Heath Report to Google Drive, giving you the freedom to create a truly unique Lark experience for distance teaching and learning.
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