Use of Software Agents for the Management of Distance Education Courses over the Internet

 This work presents a group of tools for the management of distance education courses in the WWW (Word Wide Web) environment. The goal of this work is centered on the development of tools to allow teachers to manage the daily course activities. These tools should also supply the students with mechanisms for interaction with the course activities defined by the teacher. The use of the software agents concept in this work is justified by the need to isolate teachers and students from the lower level tasks of management. The agents interact with the users through graphic interfaces and execute their orders. In this case, the agents become assistants in the management and interaction processes . Index_Terms  software agents, course management, distance education, Java tools