Enjoy working with a wide range of students? Want to minimize variability in student performance though? Learn to promote student success in online courses through course design decisions that empower student success, foster self-regulated learning through metacognitive scaffolding, and incorporate effective asynchronous discussions. Engage in group explorations of related concepts and design ideas for empowering students to succeed in online courses and discussion forums. This pre-conference workshop will explore two online teaching scenarios - one in which variable student performance and participation across course activities is addressed, and the other in which prompts, management, and facilitation of online discussions are examined. This session will be interactive, consisting of transitions between small group exploration activities and short sets of presentation slides. Practical suggestions are incorporated as well as time to reflect and apply the session ideas to your own work. One of the resources was recently accepted by TOPR and will be provided to attendees.