RESULTS OF QUESTIONNAIRE - APRIL 1995

MANY THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO FILL IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE - THIS IS OF GREAT
VALUE TO US!

	The results of the the survey are under the course index page and 
so I shan't comment on every detail.  Some general points are:

	We are delighted that 72 people are clearly actively following the 
course in some way.  This, in itself, is a great tribute to yourselves and
I hope that you feel part of something that has clearly been highly worthwhile.
What you may not realise is that we have received several word-of-mouth rports
showing that there is great interest in the course beyond its present 
membership.  Though it's impossible to tell, I suspect that there is 'silent'
readership several times larger than this number.

	We are also very pleased that so many of you have been able to learn
and use the technology.  Remember that when we started, both RasMol and MAGE
had never been used in this way before, and that we had little idea of how
BioMOO and the mailing lists would work.

	The course is voluntary, and I'm sure many of you have found that you
have other more pressing calls on your time.  We take great heart from the
number that are following, and believe that this shows that it will be possible
to run a greater variety of courses, including ones with accreditation and 
assessment, and, later, we'd like your suggestions here.

	We've taken your reports of problems very seriously.  Some, of course,
like network lag we can't tackle, and others (like hypertext navigation) may
be mainly a questions of becoming familiar.  The area where we can probably do
most is in promoting more group activity (though this depends mainly on 
yourselves!).  We'll address this in the mailing lists, but any  suggestions 
you have will be valuable.  I suspect that we should form a smaller number of 
groups in BioMOO - perhaps in the more 'inhabitated' rooms.  

	I expect that some of you are on holiday at this time so that 
activity may appear to slow down a bit, but Alan and colleagues have come up
up with some really beautiful material and we are really at the heart of what
protein structure is about.

PMR April 15 1995