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Remember, experts say that a typical online instructor spends a significant amount of their workday responding to student emails (Cavanaugh; Lehmann & Chamberlin). While frequent student-instructor communication is highlighted as a best practice (Chickering & Gamson, 1987), online instructors are encouraged to find efficient ways to manage email. Review Course Two, Module 3 for more tips about communicating effectively with students. Here are two common strategies that can help you manage student emails. First, create an “ask the class” discussion forum as a resource for the students to respond to each other’s general questions about the course. This is the digital equivalent of students talking to each other before or after class about class assignments.

Second, keep a list of common answers to frequently asked questions. While you will always have questions from outliers, many student questions are predictable, especially if the course is one you have taught many times. Lehmann and Chamberlin recommend saving comments and announcements from previous semesters and modifying them. They write, “Customize feedback comments for each student/course section; students hate (as well they should) canned comments. However, there is no reason to type out everything again if some comments remain the same from student to student or section to section. Adapt or reuse them next semester” (p. 5).