Using Discord as an Extension of the Emergency Remote Teaching Classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic

This Innovate Practice Full Paper presents how a group of teachers at our university have used Discord as an extension of the emergency remote teaching classroom due to the challenges imposed by the pandemic, caused by the coronavirus, for educators and students worldwide. Novel teaching and learning strategies, and several online tools, have been used to teach different subjects. In this paper we present how some teachers in a game development undergraduate course from the Polytechnic School have used the Discord communication tool as an extension of our virtual classroom. This paper presents some of the teaching strategies we have used with Discord as well as the students' perception and feedback about the use of this tool.