Our course is situated at the beginning of a semester, when most higher education teachers are organizing their courses. The course allows participants to bring their teaching materials, but it also gives them two full days without interruptions to concentrate fully on their courses. This works particularly well at the beginning of the Spring semester as 1. faculty can revise a course they taught in the Fall 2. public schools are back in session, allowing faculty with children to participate.

Participants have to submit a brief application, indicating the type of class to be designed and their competency with instructional technology. Based on this information and discussion with participants, lessons are adjusted to fit the needs of the participants. Participants experiment and play with the different tools after their introduction: a lesson on communication tools will be followed with participants using the communication tools as students and with adding the tools to their own WebCT courses and starting to use them. The workshop lessons and all tools introduced are part of a WebCT course all participants are enrolled in, so that they can use the course as a reference tool later on.