This is the third, and last part of my blog entry on managing the communication in your online course. Instructors, be they online or in-class, are more often than not left to themselves to gather whatever resources they can to manage their classes. For the online instructor, the scarcest resource is the time needed to learn unfamiliar technology (hardware and software) to the point where they are able to use it to save them time in their tasks. What a paradox!