These programs allow students to cover material at their own pace or perform difficult calculations. The tutorials and demonstrations have assisted many students in the General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry courses.
Students can cover material in a relaxed atmosphere that is conducive to learning.
The largest advantage to the tutorials is that the tutorials have infinite patience and will repeat lessons until they are learned. The largest draw back is that they cover the material the same way every time. The tutors take up the slack here and can help students with these problems. The general purpose applications like WordPerfect and Microsoft Excel allow students to complete complex tasks relatively easily. For some projects, if a student performed the task by hand, he or she would become bogged down in the calculations and lose sight of the goal.