The Instructor system has multiple levels of user security and system security. Students can logon view course announcements, download course material, have a real-time chat, logon to the course discussion forum, send email to one another, view their Instructor contact details, hand in assignments and projects electronically, record class attendance, work in groups and much more. From a Instructor's point of view, the system is very easy to use, point and click operation to add announcements, course material, etc. The system also sends out email to students letting them know when anything in the course has changed. Instructor is a fully integrated online course portal.