Four times during the semester, Coston also used voice mail to have students answer questions in Spanish. Coston then could check each student for pronunciation and sentence structure. During office hours, Coston used voice bridge for review sessions before tests or simply to answer questions about the material. The next time she teaches the course, she will make these voice bridge interactions obligatory so that students must converse in Spanish. As a consequence, Penney offers a voice bridge telecourse orientation.
Students just call at the appointed time and enter a code for conference call.
Penney also schedules four test reviews during the semester, usually on a Sunday evening, using voice bridge. These reviews are very popular. She gives each telecourse student an individual box number and gives the entire class a group voice mail box so she can leave messages for students individually or as a class. Gibbons thinks these voice main connections are important to students. But with voice mail, they know they can reach me.