In courses where I provide lecture notes online, all students have read them before class . Each of my courses is a semester long discussion of a set of ideas. I provide a framework and resources for the discussion, but I do not provide the entire discussion. It is rude to arrive late to, or leave early from, class. Sometimes genuine crises arise, for which students may need to excuse themselves from class or arrive late, with appropriate gestures to the other participants in the discussion.
Students read the assigned readings prior to each class.
Each student has a dictionary, in order to look up unfamiliar words. In books with a glossary, students first check the glossary, as some words are used in very specific ways in geography texts. Students know what plagiarism is, how to avoid it, and the consequences for violations. Students will not turn in somebody else's writing without proper attribution. All written work is proof-read before it is turned in.