Planning ahead, setting limits, and tapping into reusable sources are ways to keep on-line teaching from consuming your life. Here are 20 tips on how to save time in your work as a distance educator:

1. Post all assignments, lectures, calendar entries, and topic discussions at the beginning of the course. Though this means a lot of work up front, but it pays off later in easing the challenge of course management, allowing you to focus on responding to students. Many colleges now set deadlines at least several weeks before the term begins for on-line courses to be complete.

2. Make sure students have passed an orientation quiz or completed an on-line scavenger hunt at the start of the semester so that they know how to navigate the course; this will reduce the number of questions later.

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