Makes it easy for student to look at a subset of the total article database. Course articles can only be uploaded by the course administrator Preserves the security of the course materials. Each article has a unique identifier, which is also a directory on the server. Keeps HTML documents and pictures for the same article together. The article directories and other descriptive data are entered using forms.
Articles are uploaded from the administrator's home page.
Course administrator does not need to know UNIX commands to construct course materials Students can respond to articles using forms. The student's response is posted for the other students to read. Student has to actively process the course materials to submit responses. The Articles selection features a search engine that will search for a given word in all of the articles in the data base returning a clickable list of the articles that contain that term Very useful for finding articles covering a particular concept or principle. Articles may be printed Printed as document output from the browser Response links can be made for soliciting student responses to documents that are not on line.