"Students had the same tasks to complete for every weekly topic. Each week I posted two pages on WebCT, a "content" page and an "assignment" page. The "content" page held the learning objectives for that week and the instructor's content narrative, i.e. the lecture that I would give if I were live in the classroom. The "assignment" page repeated the learning objectives, contained the reading assignment and links to web readings, and hada set of three to five study questions.

Students had to complete three bulletin board assignments each week. First, they were to answer one study question of their choice for that week in at least 250 words and post it on the bulletin board. This assignment was due every midnight every Wednesday.

Second, they had to post one question related to anything related to the reading or another student's post for that week. This assignment was also due midnight Wednesday. The third bulletin board assignment was to answer any question or comment on any student's post. This assignment was due by midnight Saturday.

Since the computer logged all postings, I made deadlines "hard": late posts or failure to post resulted in grade penalties on email evaluations."