Teaching online can either be a big headache or a pleasure. It really depend on how your approach things and manage your time - as it is slightly different than the traditional classroom.

Kaye Shelton has posted some great tips on the Sloan Consortium's blog to help online teachers better manage their time and make things run smoother. These Time Saving Tips for Teaching Online help you utilitze education technology to reach students all over the world to help them learn whichever subject you're teaching. These tips include:

1. Carefully Develop Online Materials
2. Course Schedule
3. Write a Welcome Note
4. Print out Student Introductions

...and more.

Blackbaud, an education software solutions provider, has many programs available to help you manage and teach courses online.

Check-out the Kaye's full post here for all the tips along with more in-depth explanation of each.