Course Builder summarized Course Builder is a tool that lets faculty create their own course web sites using nothing more than a web browser on a computer connected to the Internet. The goal of this tool is to provide faculty with the basic course structures and interactive capabilities to make meaningful contact with their students in electronic realms. Course Builder facilitates distance learning, providing faculty with an easy means of building powerful points of communication that they control. Course Builder requires no special software or browser plug-in. Figure 1 - Course Builder main form.
Faculty provide their content in an environment they know.
Course Builder, in its Macintosh incarnation, consists of eleven modules of functionality - areas of concentration that allow certain functions to take place. Each module has a distinct purpose within a course. The instructor may choose to include or exclude any module, resulting in a highly flexible system that can accommodate a variety of needs and circumstances. Goals and philosophies Course Builder's first premise is that a course Web site should never detract from the true nature of the course itself. In the absence of this first premise, computer training invariably overwhelms whatever course of instruction was originally intended.