Mine is absolutely insisting that we will be back in the classroom from mid-February (and we've also been warned of more redundancy culls in the summer if we -- that is staff -- don't get application number ups and acceptences of offers firmed up. Some of the current initiatives are absolutely mental related to applications on the one hand, and student rentention on the other).
So far, with classes being 100% online rather than the hybrid stuff, I have had really good attendance and engagement in my seminars. Sure, I have to do a bit more in terms of sending emails and stuff to the various module cohorts every week to keep them on track, but this week, our first full-on week of work/discussion/workshops, has seen for me some of the best groups discussions since I was doing stuff completely in the classroom.
I will be very happy to go back to face to face tutorials when the time comes (I find call after call on Teams for tutorials gets exhausting -- I have three hours' of tutorials mandatory for one of my fresher modules to slog through this morning), but yeah, it's such a marked difference to have everyone online rather than trying to deal with online students and students in the classroom at the same time.
