I was really intrigued by this analysis that robert talbert did of a study about hybrid, or on line learning. I never write the class policies of my syllabi because each group of students has different needs and i want that reflected in the policies. And then to get back to your question about listening beyond the answer, at the beginning of this somester, i was asking students, as i always do, what kind of class do you want to have? What kind of policies do you want into your syllabus? And i heard, i didn't even hear crickets, like crickets would be loud compared to what happened in this class. It was dead silent for an entire