Teaching online courses presents new and unique experiences--especially for those of us who started as educators more than a quarter century ago. Teaching a course where there is no face-to-face contact with the learner eliminates the unspoken language of nonverbal clues that teachers use to get a feel for their classrooms. The instructor of a virtual class must be cognizant of the interactions with each learner and the wording of each message sent to those learners. Because the students are not sitting in the classroom, a simple joke that is shared may be interpreted in a completely different and unintended way by a learner working from home many states or even continents away. Instructors cannot see a raised hand asking a question that provides clarification of a topic. As instructors of online university-level courses in the K-12 educational leadership program at Capella University, the have identified a variety of best-practice teaching techniques that are unique to the online classroom. Those techniques are described in this article.