1.5.6. Web Teacher

Web Teacher has shown quality work in the tutorial field since 1996 and continues to provide great learning tools for all types of computer operations. It has a wonderful interactive layout, which is easy to navigate. Given its teaching quality, it seems a bit unsatisfying that some of the layout features are unpolished and somewhat hidden behind multiple links.

Good Features:

• Has great step by step instructions
• Allows you to continually breakdown certain subjects that you may not understand
• Allows lots of interactivity through user input
• Provides great line by line explanations of why and what happens after a user interaction is completed
• Provides good layout of chapter access via a graphic bordering the top of every tutorial page
• Provides great distinction of code and information not associated with the code by color coding, font uses, and also interactive buttons
• Overall navigation is simple but still leaves something to be desired.

Bad Features:

• Within a page there are several links right by each other. It is hard to tell whether or not these are in sequential order or simply an option of which page you want to proceed to next
• Has pages hidden within pages. For example sometimes some links send you progressing through the chapter while others send you off on a tangent (you are unaware of which one until you reach a road block)
• The graphics are unpolished, on some pages all of the fonts and colors seem kind of hectic
• Ends abruptly without teaching enough to feel tutored on the subject

Missing Features:

• No chat or user to user interaction of any kind (forums etc.)
• No form of high level roadmapping about the tutorials
• No indication of there being a way of getting help with a specific question about the lessons
• No quizzing or stat tracking of any kind