Students appreciate being given a quick overview of how you have organized your course. While course organization may seem obvious to educators this is often not the case for students. Think about the emails you receive from students who tell you they can't find information pieces, or how to submit assignments. You know that the information is there so you may think that the student is being lazy and not reading carefully enough, when in fact the location of the information is really not obvious to them.

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