In this research, the effects of consistently delivering instant messages to individuals attending distance education on their perceptions of transactional distance and sense of community were examined. Messages are planned to be recollective and informatory to the students. Students who volunteered to take part in the study were university students from various and sundry departments. Distance learners (N=99) are distributed to four distinct treatment groups in random manner while keeping the number of female and male students were approximately same within groups. Instant messages were designed to have utmost minimal impact on neither classroom dynamics nor the content and structure of the lessons. Each group received these messages on their smartphone. WhatsApp groups were formed and scheduled messages were sent regularly. When pretest and post test scores of transactional distance perception and community sense analyzed, result indicate that the students who receive these messages tend to have lower scores of transactional distance perception and higher scores of community sense. [For the full proceedings, see ED630948.]