This is an interim report for the  1996-97  PPRC  project,  WORLD
WIDE WEB INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT, grant.

This is an interim report, because a portion of  the  funds  have
been permitted to be carried over until December 31, 1997.

This has been a very successful year for this  project.   One  of
the  goals  for  the  people  on  this  project was to change the
university. We were very successful in this.  The  Web  is  being
routinely used to deliver instructional resources to students for
numerous classes.  A campus Web server has been installed and  is
serving  high  volumes  of  traffic.   Several students have been
trained in Web programming and consulting.  The committee members
and  many  others  on  campus  have  made significant development
efforts in  providing  sophisticated  and  significant  resources
available by Web access.

The year started with a large scale recruitment, interviewing and
hiring  of  students to provide the support for the faculty.  The
WWWIC committee members spent time in the  training  process  for
these students.  During the the year the students participated in
a 1 credit seminar during Fall and Spring semesters. This seminar
provided  advanced  Web  training  and training in consulting.  A
total of 17 different students were trained by this seminar.  Two
of  these  students  have subsequently been hired by the computer
center as  full  time  employees,  primarily  supporting  ongoing
campus Web efforts.

The computer center, WWWIC and the office of VPAA funded a campus
web  server.   The  monies  were $5,000 from WWWIC's 95-96 funds,
$5,000 from money allocated to WWWIC from the technology free and
$6,000  from  the  office  of  VPAA.  This purchased a cluster of
three computers and software to form a  high  performance  campus
web  server.   A  significant amount of support time was required
from WWWIC students by this server over  the  year.   During  the
setup  time  until  December  the  WWWIC students helped with the
development of materials to be used on the system.   The  process
of  conversion of the current web materials to the new server was
labor intensive.  Both the computer center staff  and  the  WWWIC
students  put in a tremendous effort in the successful conversion
to the new system.  After the major  problems  were  solved,  the
WWWIC  student staff gradually documented and handed over most of
the  campus  support  operations  to  the  Center  for   Academic
Information  Technology (CAIT).  As of July 97, almost all tools,
procedures and web pages  have  been  handed  over  to  CAIT  for
ongoing support.

This project has been a clear  quantitative and qualitative
success.   More  than  67 faculty have been directly supported by
the WWWIC students. At least 200 classes have been placed on  the
Web  representing  31 departments.  This has resulted in students
using the Web for thousands of hits  a  day  on  the  campus  Web
server.   These  counts  represent  class  material  from our Web
server and do not reflect access to other  sources.   During  the
two  years of the project we have administered an attitude survey
for all participating classes.  The  student  response  has  been
constant  over  that  time.   No mater what discipline or year in
school, the students are very positive about the use of  the  Web
as  part  of  the  class.   More  than  thirty  papers  have been
published by the faculty, staff and  students  on  this  project.
The faculty have actively worked together and have submitted both
internal and external grant proposals.

The project has spent $31,342 on personnel by the end of June  97.
In  addition it spent $3,375 on software, training and incidental
expenses.  We had intended to have spent the full amount  by  the
end  of  the  one  year time period.  However, we had a very high
rate of resignation  of  student  employees.   This  has  left  a
outstanding balance of about $7,700.  This has been allowed to be
carried over until December 31, 1997.

Some the internal grant activities have been funded.   The  WWWIC
project has received three separate fundings from NDSU technology
fees.  These are $5,000 for part of the Web server.  $13,771  for
equipment  in  the  Multimedia  room.  And  $6,650  for a Mac Web
server.  All of these funds have been spent.

Paul Juell has served as the project director for the  two  years
to date of the project.  Phil McClean has been elected as the new
project director and will administer the  ongoing  project.   The
carry  over monies are being used to support advanced projects of
the individual PI's of the grant.  This will  also  allow  us  to
have  in  place  a  staff  to  support startup work if one of the
external grants proposals submitted by the WWWIC is funded.



Paul Juell
Project Director