Prepare: Introduction and Expectations

Welcome slide/screen: While you are waiting for everyone to connect, to avoid the awkward time where everyone is staring at you while you don't say anything, consider putting up a slide or other information that lets people know they're in the right place, reminds them of any steps to get ready, and let's them know when you will start (for example, 2 minutes after the hour). Bonus points: play some welcome music while they're waiting!

Introduce yourself: It can be easy to forget this when you're anxious to get started on your tutorial material. This doesn't have to be long. Write out a sentence or two of introduction in your own notes to keep it succinct and relevant.

Magnify: You may have a giant monitor and fast internet connection. Your participants likely do not. When sharing your screen, you need the font to be uncomfortably large for you. Generally, plan to fit just a few notebook cells or lines of code, with their output, on the screen at any given time. Webpages should generally be shared at 150% or more. And yes, this is true even for screen sharing via Zoom.

Set expectations: Tell participants what you expect in terms of interactions and questions. What we usually do for remote workshops is:

• Video off is fine (most won't turn it on anyway)

• All muted; if we have time at the end, we'll give participants a chance to unmute to ask questions if they want

• Put questions in the chat - if you as a participant know the answer to a question, please go ahead and answer (this is a way to enlist more advanced students as helpers and give them an outlet for their knowledge). Otherwise, we'll check the chat periodically - at least when we stop for exercises. If we have a helper, the helper will answer questions and escalate any to the instructor if needed.

But other modes of interaction work - just be clear about what you want participants to do and how they can get help/ask questions.