Speaker: Charonda Woods
Candidate for Bachelor of Arts in Computer Information Science
Time: 5:45 PM
Place: Trustee Hall 216
Supervisor: Dr. Richard Kopec
Title: Course Web Page Maker

Abstract: Web pages have grown as a major means of communication for university professors. Professors, particularly those in non-technical areas with little or no knowledge of programming languages or HTML, are interested in creating personalized web pages instead of using complex systems such as Blackboard. The Course Web Page Maker was designed for Windows/Unix users to provide an easier way to produce web pages for homework, lecture, syllabus, calendar, and office hours/schedule handouts. Professors enter in their course information into a text files and execute Perl programs to create a linked set of HTML web pages, which the client then uploads to his/her web site. Each program was tested and the expected functions performed as specified. Along with creating web pages, the Course Web Page Maker aids professors by allowing them to minimize time spent adding, editing, and deleting course handouts and it provides organization for courses. The Course Web Page Maker will be in use at the beginning of the Fall 2004 semester.