Advantages:
- Dissemination of information
- Homework assignments
- References
- Syllabus
- Links to tools
- Info on labs, help sessions
- Instructor's contact address
- Quizzes (old/practice)
- Grades
- Data sets
- Advertisments
- Lecture notes:
- (+) Students can listen, do not have to write all the time
- (+/-) Adventageous when a class is missed.
- Accessible any time
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Disadvantages:
- Knowledge of Internet needed
- Problems if no access at home
- Dependence on reliability of the server
- "Computer phobia"
- Compatibility
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