An Internet Portal for Statics and Dynamics Engineering Courses

1 Kurt Gramoll, University of Oklahoma, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Norman, OK 73019 [email protected] Abstract A scalable Internet portal to assist teaching statics and dynamics is presented (www.ecourses.ou.edu). Each instructor can set up their own Internet class where students can view lectures, review course material, complete homework, access examples, post questions and complete tests. Each class is independent of other classes so that instructors can use the system and manage multiple classes. All information related to instructors and students are stored in a database on a web server. Instructors use a common pool of questions in a web-based database library to set up homework and tests. The system then records and stores the information sent by users and grades the responses. Each instructor has administrative control over his class wherein he/his can add/delete students, manage student information, manage home works, quizzes and tests, set up points and view score reports and e-mail students. Benefits include instant access to all course materials, quick feedback of homework and quizzes, access to course lectures, customized content pages and usable with large classes. The system has been successful used at University of Oklahoma for over three years.