This motivated the students to keep going, and it also meant that everybody was working on the same thing at the same time, so if you went into a discussion forum, you could get an answer from a peer within minutes.
To motivovalo studenty pokračovat a také to znamenalo, že každý pracoval na tom samém problému v ten samý čas, takže když jste šli do diskuzního fóra, mohli jste dostat odpověď od „spolužáků“ v řádu minut.