In addition to providing a place where the student may respond to the course content, it is also a place where students may record music criticisms that are assigned. The student may review, edit, print and delete any entries later. The instructor may review entries of any or all students. Each week of the course, the students take a multiple choice quiz within the website. Designed to be self-checks on the week's assigned reading, they are completed before the lecture and submitted for judging.
Students receive quiz results electronically.
Errors or missing answers are displayed so that the student can compare the correct answer with the response. The results, noting incorrect items, are also emailed to the instructor. In addition to the syllabus and the tools listed above, the website contains pages for each week, which introduce weekly lecture topics, list assignments with their due dates, and give the full syllabus. There is also a discussion forum where students may pose questions and comments for reply by other students and the instructor. Most weeks, there is an assigned topic that must be addressed via the forum.