Years ago, as an online student, I used to write down all the excuses students gave when not completing their homework. When I graduated, I always joked I had enough to embroider me a bath towel. Now, as an online instructor I sometimes feel like Colonel Blake on MASH dealing with all of Clinger’s excuses and deaths in his family. I used to keep track of all the excuses students gave me, and try to follow up. This quickly became an impossible task. However, there has to be a best practice for dealing with the multiple excuse students give for… >>>

How do you deal with a vulgar student in a classroom, either online or in a traditional classroom? In one of my online classes I had a very vulgar student. Asking the student to read the student code of conduct did not work. She came to class unhappy, after a fight with her boyfriend and she took it out on me and everyone else in the online class. In a matter of just a few moments, she threw the “F” bomb into our online seminar. I was mortified; I had never had a student treat me or her classmates in… >>>