For example, In mailing list, user can sent mail not only to the whole list but he can sent mail to individual or group of people in the list . Besides, the forum will display differently for instructor and TA message and could be sort by date, title and sender. The updated information of the system will be sent periodically to faculties through IDLPs each month. The feedback from the faculties is quite positive. Many faculties were very impressed by the ease of creating a course web site.
Some faculties like to use our resources, mailing list and forum system.
Other functions such as announcement, course material also being used by many faculties. We have solved most of them and keep improving on the system. The following is the items we planned for further development of the Generic Course Web Site System. This system allows students to check their grade in the course web. As the system keep growing, this program can be used to avoid very long listing of course web to users.