Many functions, that browsers offer for common web pages don't work

• no browser bookmarks
• can't refer to content pages with URL (i.e. can't copy/paste and send an URL by email)
• good font scaling capabilities with Mozilla but limited with IE
• back button often doesn't work as expected
• reloading the current page takes the browser to the course homepage

Another useful tool is the private file manager, that allows to store arbitrary files and organize them in folders.

The system navigation aids are intuitive to use. However, the browser's navigation function often don't work (bookmarks, back button, copy-paste URL)

In the discussions forums and emails the students can also use a HTML and a math formula editor (math formulas can't be printed however).

in content pages kann man die grösse des linken frames zwar anpassen, aber es springt bei einem seitenwechsel wieder auf die urprüngliche grösse zurück.

Estimated introductory training required for a typical tutor to be able to use the basic tutoring tools: 2 hours

The tracking and reporting functions are not implemented in version 1.2

Asynchronous communication tools are: discussion forums, local mails that optionally can be forwarded to common mail address, announcments at group/institution/course/section levels. Any user can use a web based html editor and a formula editor (both applets) in the discussions and emails.

Synchronous tools are: 'who's online' tool, Chatroom and shared whiteboard, all implemented as a Java applets.

The content can be edited in the web-based system using a built-in graphical HTML editor (Java-applet). This is useful for small corrections. However, voluminous content should be edited using an offline editor on the local computer, and uploaded as zip-archive or by WebDAV.

Estimated introductory training for a typical web designer to be able to use the basic editing features: 4 hours

Uploaded HTML pages are identified by their html title tag instead of by filename - author is required to rename pages either in WebCT or in html.

Crashed once, got error messages - not stable yet? Not yet possible to access text or xml files from Flash movies. -PMc

• user account data can be accessed over a command line interface or a web-based interface
• any external html page can be integrated into a learning module of a course, that will be showed in a frame. A student still has the impression of beeing in a WebCT course, because all common navigations aids are available in the same browser window. However, the external resource has no possibility to access to data of the WebCT server.

The online help is context sensitive, informative, searchable, hyper-linked and easy to navigate.

WebCT has set up a question and answer service (discussion forums) for administrators, designers and tutors. These forums are a useful source of informations.

A considerable drawback is that flash movies cannot read parameters from XML or text files in the same directory.

HTML files are parsed and modified, before they are delivered. All relative links to other pages, to images or to objects are prefixed by the server with an absoulute URL path. This might cause problems, if relative links are coded in JavaScript, Flash etc.

eine hochgeladene Seite wird irgendwann geparst und verändert. Z.b ein tag wird so verändert original:

The quizz engine can't be customized or extended.

Two import formats are currently available: IMS-CP (with numerous proprietary extensions) to import entire courses, and a subset of IMS-Enterprise to import user/student data.

The best way to define and adapt the look-and-feel of content pages is by using CSS. Relative CSS references are supported.

Basic possibilities to change the type and appearance of the environment. Colors and icons can be adapted, and (navigation)tool can be hidden and revealed. A custom institution logo can be displayed in the top left corner.

The complete administration documentation is electronically available as PDF documents.