Use of course home pages in teaching statistics

Our focus in this article is on how a course home page can be used to support classroom teaching (not on Web-based education, where the primary teacher-student interaction is by way of the World Wide Web). Our discussion is primarily based on our experiences over the last four years using course home pages to support statistics courses at several levels from introductory to graduate. Over these years we have had the opportunity to try several ideas; seeing some of them work as expected-or better-and seeing others fail to produce any benefits or even detract from the classroom experience. Our discussion should be of value for deciding if your course would benefit from having a home page or for improving an existing one. We also give some advice in the Appendix on how to organize the file structure of a course home page.