When everyone can cook, what's a chef to do? In thisissueofthelALLT]ournal, we look at a phenomenon that is changing the extent to which faculty depends on those of us who are facility directors and instructional technologists. Course management systems, from Weber to Blackboard to Prometheus and others are popping up in various forms and levels of complexity in many institutions worldwide. These integrated tools allow faculty members and students to create their own Web pages, upload and

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... bute documents of many types, and create online assessments to check mastery of the materials so delivered. At my home institution, the number of courses using our course management system of choice has jumped from 20 or so three years ago to over 200 courses last semester. Now, it is quite clear that not all faculty are using all of the features supported by the course managemen tsystem, but there are a few baseline usages that nearly all of them make of the tool.