Efrain, I commend you for your effort due to your other commitments and the shortness of the class sessions. Keep up the good effort. Something I use for shorter courses are 5X7 cards and have students make name tents from them. At the first class meeting I give the students the cards along with a wide variety of colored markers. They put their names on the cards using the different colors to set out their names on the cards. They pick up the cards each time the class meets and put them on their desk and/or work area. This way I get a visual reminder each time I work with that student. This really speeds up the process for me in learning their names. I collect the cards at the end of the class and hold them until the next class session. The process of putting out and collecting the cards helps me to learn the names much quicker. Also, having the name tents on their desks helps guest speakers when they are calling on students, a nice little side benefit of the name tent effort. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.