How to Reduce No-Shows in Live Online Classes Without Spamming Students

Last month I helped run a four-week live online cohort for working adults, and the problem was not the curriculum. The first session had normal attendance, but by week two we had people joining 12 minutes late, asking for the recording before class started, or missing the small breakout activity that unlocked the homework. On the LMS report it looked like "low engagement," but in the actual…