Office hours by appointment:

I have noticed some tendency among students in my Distance Learning classes to ask for special appointments to see me and use that to replace frequent communication by email.

While I always enjoy meeting my Distance Learning students, I have found that most of the students who ask for these meetings are falling behind in the course. If a meeting helps such students start working more effectively, I am more than happy to meet. However, every day you are behind is hurting your chances of completing the course. So I want to start helping you immediately! Let's get started on that by email and by phone.

If our appointment is made several days in advance then we need to have several email and phone interactions, because there is quite a lot of material covered every week in the course and it is not acceptable for you to postpone learning the important material until our appointment. That would put you too far behind in the course.

If you need to make an appointment to see me for some other reason than to discuss the material/homework in the course, then please tell me what you need to discuss when you ask for the appointment.

Please notice that I will always respond to your email questions within one business day and most of the time much more frequently than that. I respond to them basically whenever I read my email and I do that frequently. If you don't receive a response within one business day, write again - maybe your message was lost in the mail.

Last updated July 29, 2015 . Mary Parker