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From: "Murray W. Goldberg"

Hi everyone. Over the last year we at UBC have been working hard on a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated web-based educational environments by educators with little or no technical expertise. We are looking for beta testers.

The tool is called WebCT

http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct

Aside from allowing the presentation of course content, it also provides administrative and educational tools such as grade maintenance and distribution, on-line quiz delivery and grading, a conferencing system, e-mail, chat, student progress tracking, student presentation areas and group maintenance, course index and glossary generation, student self-testing, and quite a bit more.

Instructors can design courses, and students can use courses from any network-connected computer (mac, PC, UNIX). The WebCT server must run on a UNIX machine (though we are making Windows NT and Windows 95 ports for the server).

We have been beta testing for about three months, and are now interested in wider beta testing. If you might be interested in being a beta tester or simply want to hear more about WebCT, please take a look at our homepage:

http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct

There you will find information on the beta program, WebCT documentation, how to reach us, and more.

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