> That way, many of the students will have already read through it once, and will be able to ask more thoughtful questions. You haven't taught before, have you

> That way, many of the students will have already read through it once, and will be able to ask more thoughtful questions. You haven't taught before, have you? :) I'm only slightly kidding. I would love to have students engage with the material before class. I typically assign readings that introduce key concepts, then cover those concepts from a different angle in class to give students an incentive to 1) read before class, and 2) actually show up to class. Based on scores from ridiculously easy pop quizzes about the readings, its seems that a minority of students do even the assigned readings; I doubt many but a select few would review an entire transcript of a class before attending. But it's something worth trying, at least, so thank you for the suggestion.