They love the ease and convenience of it. The school's philosophy, sociology and communications departments also conduct classes on the primary server. The Health Sciences Department also uses the system as its intranet, to exchange files. Communications Department students use FCIS 5.5 as the primary Web server for its pages and class projects. For distance education, instructors and students use chat and e-mail as a virtual classroom.
Students log in on particular days at particular times and interact with classmates and instructors.
Using the online conferencing features of FCIS, instructors can easily exclude one group's access to another group's work in the same class. Security has been important. We show instructors how the system can protect course materials on the Web from unauthorized entry. Faculty and staff that travel a lot can also interact easily with their students and colleagues when traveling. We're very aware of the success that Emory University in Atlanta has had with FCIS as its primary system.