Online Course Management Programs

Web-based teaching and learning utility programs have been developed to support faculty teaching and increase students' learning efficiency. Only NPU faculty members and registered students have access to these programs. Designated staff users also use certain online tools to perform administrative support tasks.

Faculty members use the online course management program to post their course syllabi and handout materials, manage their students' academic and attendance records, and post instructions to their students. They may also submit the information to their designated assistants (teaching assistants) or the system administrator for posting the information. The teaching assistants may access the system to post homework related information for individual courses. They also assist the faculty members by searching for useful learning materials or web site links and include them in the posted course material for students' use. They can also communicate with the students in their assisted courses through this facility.

The system is designed such that an authorized student user can have access to course information but only his/her own course grade data. Using this facility, a student may also check his/her own academic records at NPU and report changes of personal contact data to the administration. In addition, e-mail has become the standard tool used by all parties to deliver and increase communication.

Internet technology has been widely used to not only increase learning resources' accessibility to the students and faculty but also help the instructors and the administrators to monitor the students' learning progress.