Some faculty provide their email addresses to students and encourage them to send inquiries that way. They noted, though, that email correspondence allows students to remain nearly anonymous. Mix up the media used in the classroom. Assign creative projects. Whether used as extra credit opportunities, key components in the course or an option to the final exam, some faculty believe student projects help personalize the class, particularly when the process requires students to submit proposals or receive feedback periodically from the instructor.
Students anonymously ask questions related to the course.
One professor said students' written answers provide her with a barometer of whether what she thinks she said is what they learned, student prejudices about a topic coming up, or insight into how to approach a puzzling or difficult topic. Develop a course homepage on the World Wide Web. A Web page can reinforce or enhance the content of lecture classes. Sometimes instructors discover that students are drawing conclusions quite different from the ones intended. Some instructors begin to begin the next session with responses to the patterns that emerge, or make adjustments in the way they teach or in explanations they make.