From the perspective of teachers and administrators, there are distinct advantages to this kind of class:

• Collaboration among teachers at different campuses. The teachers work with a common syllabus, allowing them to pool their efforts. Through Web Crossing, they also share assignments and writing handouts. Instructors, furthermore, also collaborated on establishing consistent criteria for and in grading the group projects. From the administrator's perspective, such a collaborative class leads to not only an economic use of human resources, but also a consistent pedagogy across different campuses of the University System of Georgia.
• Collaboration among students at different campuses. Students from different locales and backgrounds work together. In theory at least, the students at all three institutions receive a comparable experience. This is a useful result for a large system in which credit and grades for a freshman writing course at one school are accepted automatically by the other campuses. Furthermore, Gainesville College students often transfer to the other two campuses to complete their degrees. Thus, they have a chance to collaborate in advance with their future colleagues and to get a sense of each campus's ethos.
• Experience with real-world writing conditions. Employers regularly complain that college students do not learn to collaborate. In this class, they work together with colleagues whom they never meet face to face, in approximation of many real-world working conditions.
• Different modes of working and thinking. The course rewards both individual effort and group effort. The close articulation between individual postings and group projects prevents students from being disadvantaged unduly by problems within their group.
• Dispersion of authority. Students receive feedback about their work not only from a diverse peer group but also from several teachers, as the group projects were graded by different teachers.
• Better grades. Students who choose to take an "experimental" class may be more highly motivated than the population in general, or perhaps those with enough computer know-how to tackle this course are better-than-average students; for whatever reason, grades were higher than average for the Freshman English Program at the University of Georgia.