Now that we're remote for the fall I've been surveying my students about their preferences for online teaching, and across the board:

Over half want synchronous sessions only once a week for both MWF and MW courses, and around a third want those synchronous sessions twice a week

When asking students about info delivery over Zoom, most want the "traditional" lecture structure of me teaching live with some space for groups activities and questions (despite offering all sorts of other active learning and flipped-ish classroom options as alternatives)

When asking how to foster a sense of community when we're wholly online, students also preferred a traditional text-only discussion board over other options (e.g., using Twitter as a class, using Flipgrid for posting video journals to each other)

These last two kind of fly in the SHINY NEW THINGS approach to online pedagogy I'm familiar with but I'm also wondering if responses might have differed if online teaching was more normalized here, or if students weren't still burned out from the spring and from *gestures wildly*