The effectiveness of delivering course contents for distance learning depends on the organization of the course material, interaction methods and selection of exercise/test questions. The selection of questions plays a role equally important as the course presentation material. The use of multimedia may help ease the learning experience and so does the interaction among the students. A systematic approach to structure the course knowledge is perhaps the most important thing to effective learning. We adopt a novel approach to distance learning in which students are made to learn the ontology of the course through a template based approach.