The eClass has many impacts on teaching, learning, and the dynamics of the classroom.

Positive Impacts

• The interactivity and permission-based layers allows students to more easily communicate their questions about the lecture material. Instead of trying to verbalize a misunderstanding on a diagram, a student is able to draw and append the actual diagram.
• The assessment tools available to the instructor will allow a more accurate reading of the general level of understanding by students. Each student on the roster may raise or lower a slider indicating their comfort with the material being presented. This allows the instructor to mediate lecture speed and determine when clarification is required.
• The synchronization of lecture slides in conjunction with personal student notes allows a level of organization not easily achieved with traditional methods. For example, sometimes lecture notes are not available for a class, causing the correlated student notes to be ambiguous or unrecognizable.
• With the digitalization of notes, slides, and writing tools, less material waste is produced in the classroom. This is beneficial for the environment, especially in regard to paper consumption.

Negative Impacts

• The computerized, screen-based premise of the eClass allows students to lose focus or become distracted since face-to-face communication is removed.
• With less physical action required in participating in class, students may not feel the need to attend lecture as often.
• There is a high cost involved with providing a classroom with enough hardware to run the eClass. If tablets are used, the cost is even higher.
• The eClass offers most features already existent in the classroom except teaching styles involving physical interaction. For example, the eClass cannot replicate a demonstration of physics.