The positive impact of implementing EClass is the ability for the student to interact with the instructors through the use of the interactive drawing tools. Positive impacts in implementing EClass are:

1. The ability for the student to take notes directly on the instructors class lecture slides through the use of a personal computer.
2. The ability for the instructor to see the students questions by viewing the notes the students have written.
3. The flexibility of the software will allow the student to interact with the classroom remotely.
4. The software will allow the instructor to integrate his/her lecture notes into the EClass easily through the use of specialized tags.
5. The software will take the place of lecuture and student notes, thus saving paper.

Potential negative impacts include those common to any user-oriented software system. If the system is implemented and designed poorly it can hinder the user's ability to take notes efficiently during lectures. The students using the EClass software might not become accustomed to taking notes on a computer and revert to the pencil and paper method. If the user interface is not intuitive and easy to use for the students, the features designed to improve the student's ability to take notes will simply be ignored. Another potential impact relates to the instructor's ability to incorporate their lecture notes into EClass. If designed poorly, the instructor could have a difficult time learning the use and behavior of the specialized tags system, and productivity would be lost in having to learn how to use the poorly implemented features. Improper implementation could lead to students becoming inattentive during lecutres or not attend the sessions at all.

As a course example, the use of EClass has no significant negative impacts unless its development methodology is considered weak or the graphical interface is too convoluted for the user to understand. Development methodology would be considered weak if the development of the program were to be poorly implemented from the specification guidelines. Such negative impacts can easily be avoided if instructors and students are given ample training before using EClass in a particular software engineering curriculum.