A Council on Academic Affairs taskforce made several recommendations Wednesday concerning how Web-based classes at Eastern are approved, taught, and graded.

The recommendations, submitted to the CAA at Wednesday’s meeting by the Taskforce on Technology Enhanced and Delivered Courses, include creating a Web site to provide information about Web-based classes to students, drafting a set of non-binding guidelines on how these classes are taught, and developing a system for Web-based classes to be approved by the administration.

The taskforce also asked the CAA to create a system to determine the number of credit hours a Web-based class should be worth.

The taskforce was created by the CAA last January to determine the role the council should play in approving and implementing technology enhanced and delivered courses, said Tim Shonk, taskforce chair and English professor.

CAA members also voted unanimously to dissolve the Senior Seminar Advisory Committee.

The eight-member committee, composed of faculty members and administrators, had already recommended to dissolve itself on the grounds that it wasn’t needed anymore, said CAA Chair Andrew Methven, biological sciences professor.

Individual departments and the CAA have recently assumed the committee’s role of approving senior seminar proposals, leading many to consider the committee obsolete, Methven said.

“(The committee) felt the role they were playing wasn’t that great anymore,” he said. “It seems like an extra step of approval that isn’t really needed.”

In other business, CAA members were appointed to both the Academic Technology Advisory Committee and the advisory board for the Center for Academic Technology Services.