If you are planning group field trips for Spring 2021 for your approved in-person course, please be sure that these are amenable to social distancing and other public health guidelines and that you have consulted with your department chair and/or the University’s Risk Management to ensure that these meet university regulations.
If you are planning to assign students to engage in individual local travel as part of your remote-instruction course in Spring 2021, be sure that it is amenable to social distancing and other public health guidelines. Note that you can encourage students to engage in local travel but you cannot require it. Any assignment that would require local travel must have an alternative assignment that does not penalize students for choosing it.It is advisable to communicate any such assignments to students with reference to the current pandemic health guidance, to help students make safe and informed decisions, as a way both of helping students carry out such assignments safely, and also of reassuring them that such potential health concerns have been taken into account