I see some of my faculty friends fretting about teaching online. I'm now teaching a designed-to-be-online course for the third time, so here's how I think about some of these issues, which I hope can be useful to some of you. (YMMV).

Teaching online is a strange new beast with many drawbacks, but there are some advantages vs. in-classroom live teaching. For example, it is easier to integrate interactive online activities, links, videos, etc. (Students are already at a computer/tablet, take advantage of that!)

Did you know that the internet is not just an email and Zoom server, but is also an often-free repository of all human culture and knowledge? Also lots of webcams, interviews, instructional videos, simulations, etc. There are things you can take advantage of with this.

My course is asynchronous (lectures are pre-recorded, students can watch them at their convenience, we have discussions in the Canvas chat forums and I have live Zoom office hours). If you're able to do it this way, it's a lot easier on everyone's chaotic schedule.

Re: scheduling, each course week starts Monday morning, and all assignments/quizzes/etc are due the following Sunday night. Students can do them whenever they want that week, but I warn them I don't check email as much over the weekend if they need help. (I still check).

I also have announced a blanket extension policy- if you ask in advance, it's basically no problem to get an extension on any assignment or quiz. Everything's crazy right now, I'm sure they have a reason why they need this. (Midterms and finals are different)

We're moving towards online discussions (canvas discussion forums) rather than in-person class discussions. The right prompt makes a big difference! Rather than "what's the memorized answer to this question," ask thought-provoking, open-ended, discussion-starting questions.

You can't take your students on fun field trips anymore, which sucks. But YOU can go (if safe) and record yourself and share the video with your students. Is this less fun than them getting to go themselves? Sure. But it beats reading a textbook.

Also, lots of people have done this before (with varying but sometimes high degrees of success) and many are happy to share tips.

Everything's scary and chaotic and awful and you might not have the time, energy, emotional bandwidth, or institutional support to use any of this. But I hope these thoughts help someone a little.