Procrastination is more prone to happen in an online environment, so being sure to remind students of upcoming deadlines is important

That keeping a specified time for outside discussions among students can help them keep focused when necessary. 

There are opportunities to get to know students, even through online classes

I need to know my lesson plans frontwards, backwards, and sideways so that I can give effective feedback and exercises to students

That it's important to learn each student's name 

To keep a notebook to keep notes of things I said I would do for students

I didn't realize there was so much the instructors were in charge of during online classes

Modeling professionalism