[nabs-l] Question about emailing professors and office hours

[Sami Osborne]

Hi all,

I hope you're enjoying your weekends.

I feel that most of my professors are very accommodating to all 
my needs.  However, one class that I'm taking, American Music, is  
an online class, and it seems to me that my professor is very 
unresponsive to the questions that I ask him.  I've run into a 
few technical problems with the website that we have to use, and 
I emailed my professor twice to tell him about them - the first 
time about a week and a half ago and the second time last night.  
Both times, he has not responded to my emails.  I'm starting to 
get really concerned, because there are already assignments that 
are overdue, and in my second email, I explicitly stated that I 
apologized in advance if I missed any deadlines, but I couldn't 
complete them unless he was going to help me solve these 
technical issues with the website.

I'm therefore seriously considering seeing him personally during 
his office hours to discuss these problems.  I'd like to ask you 
guys whether you think that I should send him an email to let him 
know that I want to stop by his office, or just show up? I'm 
especially wondering because, as I previously indicated, this guy 
seems to be very unresponsive to emails.

In college, they're always emphasizing the fact that all 
professors are there to help students, and that we should ask 
them for anything at any time.  (I've even had some professors 
that have responded to my email questions/handing in assignments 
on the weekends).  However, I'm really starting to question 
whether that's true for some people, for the reasons I've 
outlined above.

I really hope you guys can get back to me soon and answer my 
question, because, if I don't resolve these issues with my 
screenreader and the website  turn in any assignments on time by 
the end of the semester, I could be in serious danger of failing 
the course, which I obviously don't want.

Thanks very much and enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Sami