These are essentially HTTP bulletin boards. The initial focus of the
evaluation has been the support of class discussions, but these systems
could also be used for staff project collaboration and many other things.
HyperNews
HyperNews is a free, Perl-based product from NCSA
(their site).
We're running it on Hardy, for a group in the Psychology department. No
membership required to see the results; pick from this
index,
which will take a couple of seconds to generate.
DEC AltaVista Forum
Forum is a commercial product
(their site).
We're running a 25-concurrent-user license on saulfs02 (a.k.a.
forum.u.washington.edu). Forum uses a ``Summit'' home page for
each independent collection of users, and we have a couple of
Summits:
I've created a "wf_admin" account that people ideally should use if they
want administrative service related to Forum. Dan Trippel (trippel@u) has
full privileges for the Distance Learning summit. (``Distance Learning''
means ``UW Extension''.)
Caucus
Caucus is a commercial product
(their site). We're running a 30-day
evaluation copy on saulfs02.
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