This workshop explores strategies for structuring engagement between students and faculty in asynchronous courses across a variety of disciplines. At its core, this workshop addresses the following questions: What is meaningful interaction in an online classroom setting? What are challenges to meaningful interaction? How can faculty work around these challenges to engage authentically with students? The workshop facilitators will both draw on their own experiences teaching online as well as qualitative data from interviews with both students and faculty to propose specific ways educators can navigate obstacles and power dynamics in the classroom to create student-centered, dialogic online learning environments. In the process, the workshop highlights the transformative potential of student knowledge. Participants will leave the workshop with a number of adaptable, student-centered assignments designed to facilitate inclusive and participatory teaching practices.