This academic year the organic chemistry course at Stony Brook reached an important milestone when the fall enrollment passed the thousand student mark for the first time. An advanced course of such a large size requires special teaching strategies. During the last few years we have modified many aspects of the course to accommodate the increased numbers and to better serve our students.

Conventional lectures have been replaced by student-centered sessions that rely heavily upon CPS clickers. Each student now attends an 80 minute workshop session. A Chemistry Learning Center has been created for walk-in office hours. An army of undergraduate TAs has joined a smaller number of graduate TAs to cover our many workshops and to staff the Learning Center. Examinations have been modified to allow for efficient and uniform hand grading combined with computerized analysis of the results. Personalized web pages are used for communication of examination results to each student. Some of our changes have worked better than others. This presentation will discuss the high-lights. The low-lights are best forgotten.