Software based tools are provided to course instructors in an educational community to enable an instructor to access content of a plurality of academic courses from an information terminal. A user interface displays a class list and a list of tasks, and allows the instructor to select a plurality of classes from the displayed class list and select a task from the displayed list of tasks. In response to user entry of a single command through the user interface, a processing part causes the selected task to be performed to course content for each of the plurality of selected classes. Thus, the instructor can add or modify content to each of the plural selected classes through a single command entered through the information terminal.