Many teachers carefully craft the beginning of a course and the start of each class session.
However, often these same classes and courses end on a disappointing note. Typically, at the end of class students shuffle papers while the instructor rushes to summarize the day's work. Similar discord occurs at the end of the course when students slink out of the room after a final exam, often deliberately avoiding any farewell exchange with the instructor. The literature on higher education instruction is surprisingly sparse on the topic of class and course endings. Considered first are the solutions to the poor social dynamics between instructors and students at the end of class.