As you may have heard, we are now really promoting distance learning over the Internet. The system shouldn't limit the professor in terms of the types of content that they want to place on-line but will instead help by allowing students to participate with a standard interface. We hope to unveil two updated systems as well. We have purchased Allaire Forums to use as a replacement for our aging Web Conferencing System. Forums is a type of software that enables you to post messages to a discussion group with only a Web browser.
Forums allows restricted access, HTML tagging, searching and E-mail notification.
The other update we intend is to upgrade our search engine to the Netscape Compass server, which is highly regarded in the Internet trade press. Finally, last but not least, we hope to upgrade our server to a much more powerful machine which should improve the performance of the central UNT servers. Until next time.