In my research, I identified six best practices for hybrid format course design. The first is to move administrative tasks to a secure and private environment.
This includes everything from attendance to grades to personal feedback on assignments. Much of this type of information is personal and confidential. Distributing it in the classroom setting in the presence of class wastes precious group learning time and also risks breaking individual student confidentiality. Personal and confidential discussions between the facilitator and the student about their individual performance, their grades, their attendance should not be shared in a classroom venue. At the same time, it wastes the time of every other student attending the face-to-face class at that time.
