"For Harvard students, we hope that it allows them to get a sense of the nature of courses as they decide what courses to take," he said.

According to HASCS statistics cited by Bergen, students had been making heavy use of the roughly 400 course Web sites in existence last year.

"We average about 2 million hits a

month for courses alone," Bergen said.

"Last year, I think 70 percent of students took at least one course that had a course Web site," he said.

ICG is developing other new tools, such as a digital slide carousel and a quiz maker, that would make it easy for teaching staff unfamiliar with computers to create a quiz that would be administered, timed and graded electronically.

"We hope that it encourages people to try the Web for teaching," Bergen said.

An expansion of the support network offered by HASCS will help teaching faculty. New locations in Boylston Hall and on Divinity Avenue have joined the existing location in the Barker Center.

More visible changes have also been implemented. Due to changing demands for space, the Macintosh and PC classrooms in the Science Center have switched, and the projection equipment in both rooms has been upgraded.

New computers or ergonomically designed furniture will also be introduced into some Science Center classrooms and house labs. For example, the furniture in the Macintosh classroom in Science Center B-11c is completely new.

These improvements were made possible by funding by the FAS Physical Resources Office, Osterberg said.

Other new offerings from FAS Computer Services include a Dial-Up networking installer on CD-ROM, which includes new versions of Netscape and other programs; full networking support for Windows 98; Windows NT Workstation software on Science Center labs; and 56K and ISDN-compatibility on the dialup modem pool, enabling users with these high-speed modems to access the FAS network