A manual or basic course materials in print form should be available for each student. Videoconferencing requires course planning. Basic handbooks should be given to the students before the courses begin. Texts and graphs should be clear and concise. Teaching activities should involve a collaborative learning approach and active methods, such as problem solving and case analysis.
Most courses require the writing of exams.
E-mail makes it possible to hold exams simultaneously at various sites. Questions can be transmitted at the same time to all students and allotted times for return transmission of the answers can be strictly controlled. Instructors should be asked to do videoconference teaching on a voluntary basis. On a regular basis, teaching institutions should provide instructors with the services of pedagogical consultants with previous experience in videoconference teaching so that all new courses can be adapted to this method of teaching. Teaching institutions should provide instructors with the services of pedagogical consultants with previous experience in videoconference teaching who can monitor them and give them formative assessments during their first sessions of videoconference teaching.