The colleges select the classes according to need and put them up for the students to use. The classes are being offered to improve students' computer skills, help them with using the Internet and the World Wide Web, or to aid them with GRE and LSAT test-preparation skills, a promotional pamphlet stated. Access to the non-credit workshops, as well as registration, content delivery, payment information, examinations and instructor evaluations, are all through the website. Also available are demonstrations and sample programs for curious users. Using America Online, as well as other related courses.
Students can choose beginner, intermediate and advance workshop, where applicable.
The classes, he adds, can be accessed from the convenience of a student's own dorm, at any time that it is convenient. Students like Jeff Slatterly, senior and computer-user, are pleased. If you've got the knack for using the computer, he said, it is a good idea. He said he believes that it is a better idea for students to learn general education courses with a teacher, rather than at a seminar like this. Workshops are being offered in four six-week sections this fall.