Classroom management in the e-learning environment. After reading forum 4 with some online supplements, I realized that the types of students are the same in the e-learning environment as well as the face to face environment. However, managing these students in the online environment is different. Despite the academic institution policy governing disruptive student, the new norm in the classroom is to minimize the attrition rate. The new norm pits the online instructor between the “rock and the hard place.” In the for-profit institution, dismissing a student is really the last resort. Regardless of the type of student –noisy, disruptive, quiet, independent- in the classroom, the instructor has to learn to facilitate each of them.