As a teacher, you should always pay attention to class attendance.  Attendance by students is likely to affect the quality of students' academic course performance and student perceptions of the course.  And poor class attendance and high absenteeism will result in low student rankings and unfavorable academic grades.

Reasons to cause poor class attendance vary, like Illness or emergencies.  And a dry, boring or monotonous lecture read to student is probably one of them.   You, as the teacher, could do, and should do something for it. Now it is time to figure out a way to spice up your courses and lure students back to school.
With popular teaching 2.0 technologies, teacher can get access to tools to create multimedia learning course. It is easy, quick and professional.

1.       What's multimedia?
Multimedia refers to computer-mediated information that is presented concurrently in more than one medium. It consists of some, but not necessarily all, of the following elements: text; still graphic images; motion graphics; animations; hypermedia; photographs; video; and audio, i.e., sounds, music, and narration.
Multimedia teaching tools are a valuable resource for improving the quality of education.

2.       The Effectiveness of Multimedia

Comprehension
 Compared to text-only based courses, a non-multimedia mode of delivery, multimedia has higher effects on the students' comprehension and creates learning advantage with the addition of multimedia. Integrating audio, video, still graphic images and hypermedia to courses does strengthen or enhance learning at a deeper level of understanding.

Recall and Retention
Recall and retention are two important factors in determining how information is delivered.
Researches show differences in differences in recall or retention in learners using a multimedia-enhanced online training program versus those using an exclusively text-based system.

3.       Create Multimedia Course

Increase Awareness on Using Multimedia in Courses
Lack of awareness is a major problem for many academic staff who may not be fully appreciative of the educational potential of multimedia when appropriately used.
Even if they are aware of the potential, they may not feel comfortable with integrating Therefore, increase your awareness by starting using some multimedia for you course, for example, images or sounds.

Multimedia Course Tools

In the education software market, there is a wide range of course tools to choose from.
Some are for creating HTML compliant course, some are graphic-oriented.  Traditional course building tools like Authorware integrates more interactivities to courses.

Here are some tool links for your reference.
Dreamweaver - Web Multimedia Course Builder

FrontPage - WYSIWYG HTML editor and Multimedia Content Authoring Tools

Authorware - A visual rich-media authoring solution

PowerPoint - Presentation Program

Word - Text Editor