It possesses the standard features of many learning platforms (user roles, calendar, e-mail, chat rooms, blogs, resource construction, test grading, etc.

[2] The LON-CAPA network allows participating universities and schools to create learning resources (test problems, web pages, etc.)

[1] Another special feature of LON-CAPA is the ability to design test resources (called problems) that make use of random numbers (stored in Perl variables).

This allows a single "problem resource" to generate a variety of similar (but different) test exercises, thus significantly reducing the risk of cheating amongst students.

[3] Currently, the great majority of LON-CAPA's learning resources are written in English and focus on the mathematical and natural sciences, mostly significantly physics and chemistry.