Yes Tom, Earlier in the thread it was suggested the instructor may wish to recommend meeting with the student if they are local. I have seen this occur in very few instances where the student was a former brick-and-mortar student of the main campus and once the students switched over to become an online student, she would occasionally meet with the instructor in a face-to-face meeting to assist with online difficulties. When the meetings take place at a campus, I don't see any real difficulties. However, the student and the teacher have implicitly agreed to meet online, so I don't think this is a good normal course of action. Nevertheless, the way the statement was made there was no distinction of meeting at a campus, library or any other location. Therefore, I emphasized the safety issue if this approach was to be used. Again, I personally don't condone this approach with online students. Dr. S. David Vaillancourt