Since its first use in January 1998, Georgia Tech faculty have invented a wide variety of uses for the CoWeb from small study groups to whole classes. About a dozen classes use the CoWeb each academic session, and to date over 1,000 Georgia Tech students in anatomy, architecture, chemical engineering and computing classes have used the CoWeb. At first professors used the CoWeb as a basic information source for their course. Another common first use for the CoWeb was for students to hand in homework assignments on the CoWeb for grading. For example, the professor posts a paper or a list of exam review problems and links it directly to a space for commenting on that paper or problem.
Students then post and critique answers to the problems.
The professor can comment on the responses and suggest a different approach or solution. One strength is that all the students in a class can benefit from my responses to other students questions, comments or solutions. The CoWeb can also be used as a case library where students with high grades on a project can post their project for future students to review. These projects serve as positive examples and sources for project ideas. I can point out what the students learned from these projects.