The problem for those working on DE courses is that we have to go for the best common program. In other words, we can't ask DE students to purchase an expensive piece of software just for one course. We either need an on-site piece of software that everyone can access just for the duration of the course (and that's what WebBoard, the program I talked about, promised to be) or we need a common ground software like Word that everyone purchases anyway because it has multiple uses. Catherine F. Schryer Dept. of English University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 (519) 885-1211 (ext 3318)