Each student can view his or her own marks as entered by the course designer. WebCT's 'compile' tool allows students to generate and print their own customized study guide from a listing of all course content pages. This restores context for the student and allows learning to resume as quickly as possible. Each student can create their own homepage for viewing by others in the same course. Students are provided with an authoring interface much like that of the course designer's.
Students can add images, text and links to their homepage without knowing any html at all.
The homepage can be called up from a number of locations, including the homepage listing, e-mail, the conferencing system, student management and student progress tracking. The WebCT Whiteboard allows for real-time communication among course participants using a graphical paint interface. The instructor is given the power to allow the saving and loading of whiteboards. Future enhancements include the ability to create multiple whiteboards per course, restrict whiteboards to certain users and make specific functions on the whiteboard usable only by those permitted by the instructor. The Whiteboard tool can be used at the same time as the Chat tool.