They also like searching on the Internet to find answers. Text can be entered as if writing an e-mail note. 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 more than 1,000 students in anatomy, architecture, chemical engineering and computing classes have used the CoWeb. 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. 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. Everyone knows that students share tests and projects through test files, so this is a sanctioned way to share good examples with the addition of comments from the professor.