The University of York was responsible for the development of this module. Coincidentally, the Archaeology Department of Glasgow University were in the process of redesigning their first year course as the CAL material became available. This presented an excellent opportunity for academic staff to consider ways of integrating the new courseware in order to achieve their aims of saving staff teaching time and improving the quality of the course. Previously the first year of approximately 180 students had been dealt with as one unit. It was decided now to divide the course into three separate modules in order to make it more manageable and to widen student choices.
Students take two of the new modules out of the three offered.
A basic principle of the changes was that the changes would not involve additional teaching load for staff. The developers were also subject specialists and wrote the content from scratch, with academic staff acting as advisors. The project co-ordinator provided assistance when required, to a total of approximately 1 month of his time. Each module provides up to 8 hours of teaching material. Hardware and software for the developers was often provided by the participating institutions rather than purchased from project funds, with Glasgow University providing approximately 21,000 from their New Initiatives Fund for project management.