CourseWorks

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CourseWorks lets you get info for your classes, but only if your professors bother to use it.

Courseworks was based on the Prometheus open source platform, and launched in 2001-2002. In 2002, Prometheus was bought by Blackboard, the vendor whose eponymous software serves the same role as courseworks at many of Columbia's peer institutions. Columbia plans on replacing Courseworks with a Sakai based program at some unknown time in the future.

Professors can enable various features for their classes:

  • Discussion
  • Gradebook
  • Syllabus
  • Class files

Additionally, as of the Spring 2007 semester, course evaluations have been made available on CourseWorks. How these are going to function differently than the existing pencil-and-paper evaluations remains to be seen.

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