There are many institutions offering the online option for correspondence courses. This is rapidly gaining popularity as another way of correspondence courses as the postal form of correspondence has its own hassles. All you need is access to a computer and then you have access to a wide range of content via the internet.
All the organization has to do is buy its own website and substantial amounts of hosting space. This can be available for less than three thousand bucks. After buying hosting space, the organization can upload the contents like study material, test material, previous years' question papers and tips related to studies along with a proper schedule to go through all this. The online courses can be accessed through a Login ID and password given by the organization to each registered user and this is done to prevent the piracy of the website content. The user is first expected to sign an agreement by accepting all the terms and conditions of these institutions regarding the confidentiality of content. The registration is confirmed only when the user clicks on the box, accepting all terms and conditions. Once this is done, the user can now access the entire content of the website and can study according to the course plan given on the website.
The main advantage of this is that the institutions need not print the postal correspondence materials at all! This can be a boon for institutions that previously had printed not in bulk and had not got the expected number of enrollments. The only disadvantage is that a personal touch is absent, which may be required in case of doubts, corrections or mistakes in the content. This can be a hassle in case of emergencies like examinations.