advice to students

Attendance is necessary for success - and no matter how often I tell students ,about 3-7% don't seem to "get" that; however, just showing up and doing the minimum required by the assignment won't get you an "A." About a third of students don't get that.

How can I get these ideas through to students better?

Further advice - straight from students - can be found in a couple of videos I shot and edited in 2008. Student perspectives are different from teachers' - and sometimes we can learn better from a peer than we can from a teacher. See here, and here. The videos are short and fun.

P.S. all numbers and percentages pulled out of the air - but my best estimate. I may be venturing into "do as I say; don't do as I do" territory.