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First of all a correction. In my original message I confused Web Board and Web Review. Web Board is our discussion software which we like and Web Review is the annotation software that we don't like. As to ownership and cost issues--very interesting. I was paid a flat fee to produce the course -- and as I understand it, I own the content of the course (at least it is copyrighted to me) although it is the university's course. I have a feeling though that the issue is up in the air right now. I know of at least one instructor here who spend a lot of university resources (far more than I did) to produce his on-line course and then commercialized it (and he's making a mint with it). I know the powers-that-be are really steamed about this. I suspect the issue might hit the courts. My solution to the problem of ownership and quality control has been to make the course complex and interactive. It has to be run by people or it doesn't work at all. right from the beginning I did not want the course to be susceptible to "canning" ie run by mechanistic means or run by TA's without supervision. I gather too that I will also be receiving partial credit for the course everytime it runs. And I shall be keeping track of and collecting that credit. Catherine F. Schryer Dept. of English University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 (519) 885-1211 (ext 3318)