I was able to have the newsgroup set up in a matter of an afternoon, and the newsgroup itself is accessible via numerous programs, i.e. pine, lynx, netscape, gopher, etc. Steven-Hard to answer. I guess some knowledge is required. Regular stuff which is available on Darkwing. Neil-Computer expertise was minimal.
Expertise is available at the university to get help.
Expertise far exceeds resources. The hardware and software are all on resources commonly available to faculty. None of it is set up in a user friendly way for teaching normal classes. Bob-I can't answer this objectively. I don't think that the tools are that hard to use, but, I've been using them so long that I can't remember how much of a struggle it was to learn them.