Advantages of BSCW

• The access via WWW provides the availability of documents independent from a time or place – an ideal way to make the material available to the students or cooperation with colleges.
• The owner of the document may decide, via so-called shared application areas within BSCW, which material he or she wants to share with certain users. It is possible to divide the structure by courses.
• The access is password protected.
• The data backup is ensured by the university’s centre for computing.
• The control of documents is secured by an operation that keeps content versions.