A Web-based syllabus allows for a great amount of flexibility for students and teachers. If this is something that you seek to develop in your courses, then creating a Web page may be useful. Happily, putting your syllabus on the Web is no longer a high-tech, engineering endeavor. Software programs that help you write for the Web abound, and there are software packages that provide you with a course template, organizational structure, and course management tools all in one. Quiet, self-conscious students may, when given the time to reflect and edit, post significant messages to an electronic bulletin board, and thus participate at a higher level.
Email can serve an important function to highly social learners as well.
An instructor can email a short survey to students to get their reaction to an assignment, or email a question that checks how well students understood an important concept covered in the last class meeting. The suggestion box account does not record the senders' addresses, so the instructor will never see the author of any email addressed to the box. One of the least anticipated benefits of email is the powerful record keeping it allows for both instructor and students. It is possible for all the correspondence in a course to be archived for any number of uses. To address a present situation, an instructor can retrace the history of communication with a student, or review that student's output over the course of the semester.