摘要:Today Course Support Environments or Course Management Systems (CMSs) are frequently employed in order to supplement conventional face to face courses or to support a distance learning program (Collis, 1999; Veglis, 2005;Veglis, 2002;Copinga et al. 2000). Since the beginning of 1998, the Media Informatics Laboratory of the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication (J&MC), at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, started to develop and publish material on the Web for its courses (Veglis, 2000). Five years ago the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has purchased and installed the commercially software tool: Blackboard Learning System (http://www.blackborad.com). Last summer Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has migrated to Blackboard 7.1 thus offering more facilities to the educators.