Netiquette: A Guide for Students About How to Interact Online

By Nida Javed

Untitled NIn online classrooms, you communicate with your teacher and instructors, so behavior matter a lot. The guideline for online behavior and interaction is called netiquette.

Some general rules to interact online like, treat instructor with respect in mail, or any online communication, avoid the use of emotion icons, don’t share your personal information etc.  In email netiquette, (when you send to your teacher) write your name, and return e-mail address, write a subject line, check it before send it. In netiquette discussion (online) make sure post on the same topic and material you use is reliable. Be brief and always respect the other’s opinion. Don’t make the personal insulting remarks and don’t repeat the things. If you are not clear about something then wait, let other person clarify you avoid assumptions and judgments.

As the classroom is online, you have the classmate from all over the world, so try to be collaborative and appreciate your peers. Be professional; make the correct use of grammar, spellings to avoid miscommunication. Never make the fun of others post.

While, as in online classroom, students give their ideas that enhance online learning experience. But as diversity comes students start ignoring online rules, like use of language (wats up, gonna, wanna etc). So to avoid these situations, it is highly recommended that instructors include in their syllabus an outline detailing his/her netiquette expectations.

6 thoughts on “Netiquette: A Guide for Students About How to Interact Online

  1. This article was very informative.we study ethics of different things like in counseling ,clinical settings etc.But never study about online classrooms ethics.I am totally agree with that we should must consider the ethics while we are using online resourses with teacher and other classmates.Teacher is still remain teacher ,no matter he or she teaching online but his respect is our duty with have to do.

  2. Netiquettes are very important thing to follow. I believe that interaction on internet should have a flavor of ethics and not only with instructors but with anyone we communicate on internet we really need to follow it.

  3. a very informative and helpful article for guidelines of online communication with peers and teachers. this article explains the ethics for writing very impressively in simple words. for me netiquettes are very important and there use in fruitful manner.
    we know students nowadays uses abbreviations while writing to their teachers, which is considered unethical, but if the students will be aware of netiquettes guidelines i am sure they won’t commit this mistake again.

  4. very good addition to my knowledge as well. Now a days we are very much into electronic communication and for that purpose we should have an idea how to communicate with our instructors. I think that is not only beneficial for our academic and communication skills but also for our personal grooming as well.

  5. This article is very interesting and helpful to learn online communication to all over the world.Our first duty is that to give respect our teachers either online or in colleges and universities and also our peers.Don”t use rough language and ethics should be keep in your mind.It is very beneficial for every one and every one must aware of these netiquettes to avoid any misbehavior.

  6. the case of bullying on the internet is one of the most discussed and people still surpass the limitits they are not to cross to, probabaly because , they cannot be caught on internet unlike a normal class.
    As members of the modern world, the decency has become the need of the time in order to interact and survive and so netiquettes are very important for each one of us to develop and follow and respect the other fellows and teachers.

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