Thanks Tom, but that's the point. The instructor can only work with what he is given. If managment refuses to come forward with "swift interaction" or refuses to enforce the rules in a standard fashion what is the instructor to do at that point?

Common sense says there is a point when one individual is bringing the whole to a halt. Unfortunatly our managment has determined that there is no reason a student will be removed from class. We recently had a student throw an object in class giving the instructor a concusion. The instructor went to the hospital and the student remained in class. It's hard to have any class control when the class knows you have no authority.

My school uses PPT presentations that are predictable, uniform from course to course and with few exceptions duotone. I believe that power Point can be an awesome tool and keep the attention of students who have grown up looking at a screen but it must authored in a way that the student doesn’t know what’s coming up next and must be full of color and when appropriate action. I can’t seem to make the case for change. Am I right in my thinking? Ken