Tricia: You certainly have been successful in implementing effective strategies to establish and maintain relationships with your students as you "coach" them along. My observation and experience is that time taken to know my students can be significantly less in a classroom setting than in an online environment. Of course,it might take longer to "know" shy students in a classroom setting; however, I would make significant headway with the majority which would leave me more time to give more personalized attention to the "hard-to-know" students especially if I have to jump into an inquiry mode not characterized by face-to-face interaction. Satrohan