In my experience with teaching online courses, it is necessary to have excellent time management skills to allocate adequate amounts of time for online work. I feel that teaching online is more time consuming than teaching a face-to-face course, because of the extra time it takes to communicate with the students or to guide students that are not comfortable with the online environment and technology.
I agree with what I read in that " Therefore, the role of online instructor will include offline tasks as well as online tasks." and if you are organized, you can stick to the task at hand because it is very easy to get distracted and take longer than expected.
I find being organized and utilizing a to-do checklist helps me to stay on task with my online courses.
