During in class lectures, the instructor would stop, ask questions, and elicit responses from the students. Students will interact with one another, the printed activity page, and the instructor while receiving help in completing the content of the activity. The challenge is to simulate this interaction in the web version of the activity. This is attempted through popup windows. One or more buttons are provided which are linked to pages containing hints, suggestions, or solutions.
Students can get help or check their answers by clicking an appropriate button.
The pages for the popup windows are created in MS Word or Netscape Composer. The buttons and links are written in JavaScript and added using any text editor. The following shows some JavaScript code that can be used to provide popup windows. The code comes in four parts. The first part is inserted in the html code of the original page after the Title section but before the close of the Header.