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Web-based Course Authoring Tools and Examples

| A. Courseware | B. Testing | C. Discussion Forum | D. Chat |

A. Courseware

1. World Wide Web Course Tool (WebCT)

• Course Notes
• Bulletin Board
• Assignments
• E-Mail Within Course
• On-Line Quizzes
• Course Information
• Other Useful Links and Tools
• Resume Previous Sessions
• Web servers running on UNIX
• Login to NFLRC_Web97

2. Web Course in a Box (WCB)

• Class info
• Announcements
• Schedule
• Students
• Learning links: forum
• Help/utilities: creating homepage, change passwords
• Web servers running on UNIX, WindowsNT or Macintosh computers.

3. TopClass

• Discussion List
• Read/Send messages (Built-in email)
• Class Announcement
• Content Management (Units of Learning Materials)
• People Management
• Auto-testing
• Utilities

4. EWEB

• Bulletin Board
• Forum
• Material Development
• Test/Exercise Maker
• EWEB Chat
• Group Management
• Web server running on Macintosh

5. CourseNet:

• Syllabus
• Class News
• Class Forum
• Class List (email directory)
• Attendance Book
• Grade Administration
• Class Performance
• Class Registration
• Test Item Analysis
• Lecture Tool
• Quiz Builder
• Class Maker

B. Evaluation and Testing

1. Web@ssesor:Testing Tool

• cross-platform for clients software
• look for content providers to test its modules
• priority code: KITS1096
• Userid: 2051, Password: 138-75436
  

2. Learning Space: Web-Based Interactive Exercises

• site security
• feedback, keep track of scores, hints on questions

3. Ala'Ike Online Testing Center

• frontier scripting
• runs on the Mac WWW servers

4. ESL Grammar Web: Testing with Macromedia Director

5. Friedman's Little Interactive Quizzes (FLIQ)

• building quizzes and delivering on the WWW
• free for academic users
• UNIX-based
• require downloadable CGI scripts

C. Asynchronous Communication: Discussion Forum Managing Tools

1. WebCrossing: Discussing groups for the web

• Run on Window, MacOS, UNIX systems
• real-time chat (cannot save the transcript)
• demo at University of Hawaii system

2. NetForum

• Web based discussion
• Run on any UNIX-based system

D. Synchronous Communication: On-line Chat

1. Microsoft Comic Chat

• Windows 95 or Windows NT4.0
• Internet Explorer 3.0 and above only (cannot use with Netscape)
• real-time conversation in text-mode and comic-mode
• communicate by gesturing and various facial expressions
• Chat Rooms & Servers
• save transcripts to disk
• multi-lingual chat rooms

2. EWEB Chatrooms

• cross-platform
• multi-lingual
• save transcripts in chronological order or in the order or Author's names

Last updated: 08/21/97
URL: http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu/web97/texts//courseware.htm