When online activities are used to enhance a telecourse, student satisfaction tends to increase. It sort of eliminated the isolated feeling you get by taking an at-home class. The student success rate and the students' responses say that the time was well spent. Simply having an online presence can bring new enrollments to an institution. For example, when PGCC students log onto the college's Telelearning BBS, they often peruse forums and file libraries for a host of telecourses and online courses.
Online activities can raise faculty skills in using technology.
While most institutions encourage faculty to gain new technology skills, workshops teaching these skills are usually of short duration and provide little opportunity for follow-up. Online activities can raise the accessibility of campus support services. When Web pages are designed for telecourses, they typically contain hyperlinks to resource centers around campus. These resource centers, such as counseling, registration, computer labs, technical help desks, the library, testing center, and bookstore, provide valuable services to distance learners who are geographically separated from the campus. Both the Web and BBSs can direct online users to these information repositories.