On the other end, once the user gets familiarized with it, the application's popup-menus make it quite usable, and most functions can be accessed quite rapidly in one or two clicks (but it wouldn't be less usable if the browser's menus and toolbars were shown!).

Also, the display uses many frames (which would make bookmarking and printing even more difficult, if these functions were accessible!). The navigation frame on the left has a fixed width, which makes reading items sometimes difficult, withouth any possibility to scale the font size (at least, the navigation tree can be displayed in a resizable separate window).

• Students can mark multiple documents, and then download them in a single operation.
• Students can give feedback on any element in a course. By default, feedback is transmitted to course adminstrators and instructors, but the author of a document can also specify additional persons or groups that will receive feedback (this could for instance be used for groupwork).
• At the bottom of each element in a course, there is a "Completed" checkbox that the student can select. He/she can the later view the completed status of each element with the "Progress" tool, and the instructor can also create create statistics based on the completed status of course elements.
• All the users currently online are shown on the course homepage.
• Users can choose to have a report on activity in a course (new forum postings, new published documents, etc.) sent to them by email.

Some limitations:

• There is no internal search functionality.
• The help system is not context sensitive. Still, it's quite useful as it provides a table of contents with direct access to entries, and a keyword index.
• Some useful tools are missing, such as a glossary or annotations by students.
• Only instructors can post events in the agenda, not students (no personal agenda or calendar).

• monitor the progression of students (also using the statistics tools)
• give grades to students
• view recent activity
• create announcements
• read the feedbacks given by students on specific course pages
• work with groups of students

On the didactical side, LUVIT provides several interesting features:

• For each module in the navigation tree (= course structure), authors can specify permissions for viewing, editing (with version handling), approving and feedback for any user (e.g. students or groups of students). This means that students can also place various types of objects in the navigation tree. This could for instance be used by students working in groups on a common project: each group could have a private zone for posting documents and discussion, automatically receiving feedback from other members of the group, revising a common document, etc. Later, the final version of the students' documents could be made available to the whole class.
• Authors can set an expiration date for documents. Using the "Expiring documents" functions, students can then easily check which documents they should read next.

• Threaded discussion forums
• Internal mail
• Instant messages to other online users
• Web-based chat (refresh time: 15 seconds).

• number of hits on documents
• students' progression
• unopened/initiated/finished(=completed) documents
• number of published documents (useful, since students can also publish documents in a course)
• last access to objects/by person
• test results
• grading
• time online

According to the type of statistics, detailed results can be obtained for each object (document, module, forum), person, group, etc.

Statistics are displayed as values and graphics, both of which can be exported to a file.

A package (a collection of HTML documents and pictures, flash files, etc.) can be uploaded as a zip archive. The user can then choose one document as entry point and place it in the navigation tree (in this case, internal navigation between the documents must be provided by the course author). But there are some problems with zip archives: style sheets don't work, and Flash animations cannot load data from external files. Also, the use of zip archives means that updating an individual requires re-uploading the whole archive.

Alternately, all HTML documents in the zip archive can be placed in the navigation tree, but this has to be done manually.

Deletion of multiple documents is cumbersome: the author must manually confirm the deletion of each document.

• The new quiz tool offers various types of questions: multiple choice (these can also be imported from a text file), hotspot (user must click on a zone in an image), matching, numeric, and fill in the blank. Images, sounds and movies can be included in questions. Quizzes can be graded or taken as self-tests.
  Questions for quizzes are stored in a question bank, and import and export of quizzes is possible in IMS QTI format.
  An interesting feature of quizzes is that a user can be automatically placed in a specific group once he/she has passed the quiz. Since documents permissions can also be specified for groups, this allows the teacher to make some parts of the course available to students according to their quiz results.
• Open answer questions are also offered as a separate tools. They can be used for essays and similar kinds of assignments. Open answers questions are marked by the instructor.
• A separate "eVal" tool can be used for other types of evaluations (according to the manual: "course evaluations, inquiries, questionnaires, or enquiries about prerequisites, expectations, prior/previous knowledge, and available equipment"). Evaluations can contain grading, alternatives and free text questions.

There is also an another (older) tool that can be used for simple multiple choice quizzes, but with the new quiz tool, it is no longer very useful.