Deploying intelligent tutors on the web: an architecture and an example

Abstract. We describe the conversion of a standalone intelligent tutoring system (ITS) to one that operates on the World Wide Web. First, we focus on one product of this effort, a Web-enabled architecture as extension of a widely-used standalone ITS architecture. The advantages of the architecture we have chosen are discussed. We then describe the specific Web-based ITS that uses this architecture, highlighting features of the tutor for supporting and enhancing problem solving. Both the architecture and many features of the tutor that support students’ problem solving activities should be generalizable to other ITSs