Important: Hogwarts staff

Hey.

So, in case you've not read it, there's a big post over in announcements about some changes in Hogwarts - I just wanted to reinforce them here and make sure you know what's going on.

From now on you need to start your classes on the first and fifteenth of each month and have them run at a maximum of a month.

You only need to make one class "E.g. Charms Class 1"
No basic or NEWT stuff.

You can't take points away for tardiness, but it's encouraged that you give points to the early people, and simply not give them to the late ones.

You should give out lots of points, on that note.

I'd like to see the teachers interacting a lot more with each other, and with the students around the school, be it in a formal or informal manner. It'd be nice to see you all out and about. That means support staff as well.

Finally, if you don't run two classes in a row, you lose your job. Subs - I'd like you to please be scanning the class forums around the first and fifteenth of the month. If you see a class that's not been posted in by the 3rd or the 17th, I'd expect you to take the initiative and start the class yourself.

That's all, I think. If you've got any questions, please post them here!

Jess.

So just to clarify, I can't start a class on any day except the 1st or the 15th? Doesn't that seem a bit limiting?

Well it is a bit limiting, but it's to give some sort of structure to the students - I've had quite a few mention over time that they dislike the turbulence and inconclusiveness of classes, because they just happen every so often in most cases (or not at all in some)

So the idea is that for teachers there's a set rule - they HAVE to make their class for the students then, else they're not doing their jobs right, and they have to try and keep the ball rolling, else they have to manage more than one at once.

Most teachers *Puts up hand* don't do a regular sort of thing anyway, so I think this'll be for the best.

Beg to differ? If you all hate it I can look around for some other solution? I just think this way students will know when things are happening and what's happening.

So we just wait until the fifteenth of this month to start a new class?

I'll go with this for a while and see if it improves student attendance and participation. But in my experience, classes often become slow to stagnant after everyone declares that they've arrived, and then they just end up dying because no one does anything. For an example, see the Potions dungeons.

But I'll try it starting on the 15th. Worth a shot, anyway.

Well then pester them? Send PMs to those who turned up, we wont delete the class groups just yet, in case the freedom doesn't work as well as we hoped, then we'll have some sort of control. Remember, only one class, 15th this month and that's all i can say for now I suppose.

Unless anyone has any other suggestions, it's the only real ideas I have :/