As a perspective from a biologist who was a student and took calc I'll give my impressions. First jkimmel's comment about keeping track of pages I never found to be the case. I can keep track of all of my course pages, that's easy.
Okay, page impressions:
- Homework downloadable, awesome.
- practice exams, awesome
- I'd grab both of the above a year/semester ahead of time or from a different professor, in case you were to remove them and then dole them out throughout the course
- no downloadable notes, boo. But it's calc and I actually enjoyed the worked problems in the lectures so it's okay.
- not on Blackboard, yay!
- this means I can easily use DownThemAll! to grab all the links you have
- also, I can check out your page, so I know what to expect
- "[the text] has not changed since last year, so please feel free to buy a used version from an upperclassman."
- Awesome
- "We will use a custom edition of this book, available in the campus bookstore"
- Not cool.
- on Amazon.com that used text is available for $10
- The campus bookstore has it available starting at $173
- Especially since that text is 90% problems which could be randomly generated by a CAS given appropriate parameters for each section. The remaining 10% is good, but your lectures and math tutors are probably better.
tl;dr:, I like your stand alone page, but I would be pretty upset about the textbook.
Okay, page impressions:
- Homework downloadable, awesome. - practice exams, awesome - I'd grab both of the above a year/semester ahead of time or from a different professor, in case you were to remove them and then dole them out throughout the course
- no downloadable notes, boo. But it's calc and I actually enjoyed the worked problems in the lectures so it's okay.
- not on Blackboard, yay! - this means I can easily use DownThemAll! to grab all the links you have - also, I can check out your page, so I know what to expect
- "[the text] has not changed since last year, so please feel free to buy a used version from an upperclassman." - Awesome
- "We will use a custom edition of this book, available in the campus bookstore" - Not cool. - on Amazon.com that used text is available for $10 - The campus bookstore has it available starting at $173 - Especially since that text is 90% problems which could be randomly generated by a CAS given appropriate parameters for each section. The remaining 10% is good, but your lectures and math tutors are probably better.
tl;dr:, I like your stand alone page, but I would be pretty upset about the textbook.