Teaching this semester, I was glad that I had the opportunity to go fully online/synchronous. It's hard to connect to students via zoom, but at least if they're all on zoom I can see some faces and see if they're understanding - put a grid of student faces on the second monitor.
Obviously in-classroom face-to-face is so, so much better for students and for instructor...but I was just so convinced and remain so convinced that fully face-to-face wasn't going to last with large classes this term. Unfortunately, I think I was right about that :(
