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The best on-line "courseware" I have had was one where the Proffessor posted the homework as .txt or .rtf files on his website. He gave the option of emailing the homework or FTP'ing it on to the folder he set up for every student. I would usually just SSH into this server and work on it remotely via nano or something. All of the other professors used Canvas or Blackboard depending on which year neither worked more than half of the time. This same professor tried to use as much free text as possible and made them available via .pdf and .html on his site. He also would pass along to trusted students .pdf copies of the more common text books for the other courses that he had ripped the DRM out of because he thought they were ripping the studnets off.