The real advantage of posting your notes on the web is two-fold. First, if you know that students have access to your notes, you can devote class time to elaborate on those notes and make extensions beyond them. Second, you can build in links to web sites or on-line exercises that might be relevant to different topics throughout the notes. Links to Useful Web sites You can provide students the opportunity to go beyond the material presented in class and in the text by suggesting relevant web sites they may visit that are directly relevant to topics being discussed in class. You can also use the web to make last minute announcements, announce extra credit opportunities, and other information relevant to what's happening in your classes, on campus, or in the community.
Many professors allow students to look through old quizzes and examinations.
If you do, post them on the class web site and allow your students to take them on line. Be sure to post a key to these exercises, especially if they are objective exercises. Students can then correct their own exercises and remediate themselves regarding items that they miss. Finally, you might consider holding a weekly on-line discussion with your students on topics relevant to whatever subject matter you might be covering at a given time. If used wisely and efficiently, an electronically-assisted class can be beneficial to both you and your students.