For a while, I’ve maintained a website for the students in my chemistry classes. I put study guides, notes, solutions to quizzes and tests, schedules, and various other things on the site.
Shortly after redesigning the web site to use WordPress, I received this handwritten comment from a student on my instructor evaluations:
I feel that the students should get study guides to study with for the tests.
Where were the study guides?
http://[address]/?page_id=2
I’ve deleted the address of the site, since it’s a school site just for students. But if you’re familiar with how WordPress organizes things, you’ll notice that the page containing all the course study guides was the second page I ever posted to the site. (It was also the second link from the top of the page, just under the link to the course syllabus.)
By the time the class got to their first test, I’d added more pages. So I wonder – did this student just see the list of resources available for the course and just decide that there was too much stuff to bother with? What amount of resources is too much? What amount is too little?