Today --> LON-CAPA is:
* a course management system
* an individualized homework and automatic grading system
* a course authoring system: allowing new and existing content
  to be flexibly gathered and utilized
* a content delivery system (the only delivery system that is
  part of the National Digital Library)

Future --> LON-CAPA is all of the above plus:
* an individualized exam system
* an online help system
* a royalty payment system
* a research testbed
* a peer-reviewed resource of educational content and problems

LON-CAPA offers organized content delivery by a set of
standardized servers on an open source platform and
represents a vigorously supported, academic,
cost-efficient software solution.