The CLE is tightly integrated with the system the Registrar's Office uses to store information about course offerings, student enrollment, and faculty teaching assignments. Registration in the system also drives the creation of CLE class workspace and membership. As students add and drop courses and as teaching assignments are updated, course links are automatically added and dropped from the screen. Selecting a course will take the student or professor to the network space set aside for that class. Collaborative Projects through CLE Departments within each of the University's five colleges are using the CLE in various ways that enhance course material and encourage collaboration.
CLE automatically generates and maintains a class email list for each class.
It also allows professors to set up multiple chat rooms and divide their classes into workgroups with their own spaces and chat rooms. The CLE even accommodates grouping classes together and creating workgroups across the curriculum. These projects are displayed at an event called CommuniCon, which is now sponsored by Microsoft. Through the CLE, presenters are organized into teams across curricula, and each team has network space from which to document and present material as well as communicate through a discussion area. According to Bernadette Longo, professor of English and Project Coordinator, evenings of formal presentations by class teams originally lasted up to six hours at times.