Get the know the specific class expectations:
First and foremost, the best advice anyone can ever give students regarding success in individual online courses is this:
- Follow the professor’s specifications in every aspect of everything in the course. If, in any course, you find instructions which differ from any of the information provided in this textbook, your best course of action is to follow the professor’s directions.
- You may certainly choose to clarify with an instructor if you feel like some requirement goes against what you know or think you know, but ultimately, the class and your success in it is based on the professor’s established expectations; therefore, the best advice possible is to (once again) follow professor’s specifications in every aspect of everything in the course.