Teaching an online course presents numerous challenges for instructors who are accustomed to the classroom environment, especially if it is asynchronous (i.e., not “live”). For starters, there is the loss of live interaction. You can’t, for instance, read non-verbal cues to see if students “get it,” and, inversely, students can’t raise their hands to ask questions. There is also the risk that discussions will get “out of hand” when you are not present to moderate them, and that misinformation will spread like wildfire throughout the class.