Heh, really the teachers make it harder on themselves. My religion teacher has got a great system down, though.
Over the break, our new classrooms were finished, and each had a projector attached to the computer, dvd, and vhs players, so that we could see it on like a 150 inch screen. This makes note taking much more interesting. He also only gives like 3-6 homework assignments each 6 weeks term. If you dont do it, you are screwed.
The quizzes are around 30-40 questions long, taken only every 2 weeks using scantron sheets, so a computer grades it. We get to take these quizzes home and correct them (but we have to write out the question and answer) and we get half of the points back of those that we missed. One test is taken at the end of the 6 weeks.
So far I have learned far more in that class than any other class, and it is also my most interesting class. Plus I have a 100 average in there...