The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a web-based course management system that includes a variety of discussion groups, live chat, areas for the teacher to post the syllabus and other handouts and notices, a module for organizing online assignments, a grades module, a surveys module, and a unique, web-based email system open only to students in the class.

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Over the next month comes a course of 12 hours of Web-based training that includes more on customer interaction and a lot on products the employee will be selling.

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Of course, Republicans could counter with their own Web-based politics, but so far they have lagged behind the Democrats.

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