Students are too pressed for time when they come to class. I was never able to find a common time when students would be able to take a physical tour. I was looking for software that would provide some interesting walk-through tours. I would need some questions provided at the end of each tour that students could e-mail to me. Although I was not treating this course as a traditional one, I felt a textbook should be required.
Students feel more at home when there is reading material designed to supplement the computer.
I did not feel the computer would suffice to provide this material. Here again, I would have an opportunity to get feedback from the students on the chapter if required quiz questions were posed. It would be ideal if the students could take home exams on each chapter and get immediate feedback after answering the questions. The grades they would receive on the feedback were not as important as their being able to see the results. In fact, as long as a student answered most of the questions correctly, he or she would get full credit for the assignment.