Netclasses : a lecturer's website manager

Abstract

There are a number of Learning Content Management Systems on the market. All commercial ones are expensive and all require considerable training to use. A simple lecturer’s web site management tool, NetClasses, which is both inexpensive and easy to use, is presented in this thesis. NetClasses is cross platform. It is largely written from scratch and has a simple menu driven interface. Free open access and open source middleware is used to deploy the web pages. This thesis describes how NetClasses is produced. The ease of use comes from the menu interface and the underlying tight control o f progression from one web page to the next.