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Karyn, You may want to check out distanceed.com They have a MATH discussion forum, which includes math symbols to click on to show problems and this is in a asynch forum area. My understanding that this forum will be offered free until 2002. This site also offers shells for online classes, which uses the same web rendering for math. Our biggest problem with online classes for math is for someway for the students to show their work in correct math symbols without having a long workaround. Lucy MacDonald Online Faculty Chemeketa Community College Salem, OR http://bbs.chemeketa.edu In a message dated 8/23/00 3:18:20 AM, [log in to unmask] writes: << We offered online tutoring for two online courses this past spring semester. One was done through a chat room connected through the math course and the other via e-mail. We are looking to expand it for both online and traditional courses this semester. Students seemed to like the chat room idea, since their questions were answered, with an example, immediately. The problem with this is that not all of our students (I work at a community college)have computers at home or have enough internet savvy to follow a math chat room. It worked best for the students in the class itself. The e-mail method seemed to work for quick fix questions that students felt they could wait the 24 hour turn around time. I will be experimenting with bulletin boards this semester as well as more online tutoring via a classroom chat. I would love to hear what other campuses are doing as well! Karyn Schulz Coordinator of Tutoring CCBC Essex >>