Students will be able to review courses, share professor evaluations and access syllabuses through a secure Boston University website starting next fall, the Student Union said.

The website, meant to provide a service similar to Ratemyprofessors.com, will replace Course Net, a system that has been inactive since 2003, said Union Academic Affairs Committee Chairman Matt Seidel. BU discontinued Course Net, which had replaced the decades-old Source Guide, because of a “lack of interest.”

The peer-resource website will be monitored for proper content, and has already received approval from Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore, Information Technology Director Richard Mendez and the Provost’s Office, Seidel, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said. IT will work over the summer to launch the site in the fall.

Seidel said the new site could include course syllabuses and more detailed course descriptions than are now available on the Student Link. Courses will be separated by concentration and school for easy browsing. There will be a period at the end of the semester for students to share course experiences, though a Kerberos password-protected login will ensure only students who have taken a particular class will be able to comment, he said.

“We want to be very student oriented,” he said.

The Union committee will work to avoid the failures of the Source Guide and Course Net by staying in regular contact with IT and the Provost’s Office to make sure students are using the website.

“We don’t want these things to fall by the wayside,” he said. “[The Union is] so invested. It is a personal thing to keep it up . . . This is made to be sustained.”

Seidel said he tried to create support for the website by contacting the CAS, School of Management and Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences administrations, Residence Hall Associations and students from across campus.

Some students said they were divided on how useful or popular the yet-to-be-launched site will be.

CAS freshman Leila Campoli said she thinks the new resource will be useful, but noted students might worry about being monitored on the university site, while Ratemyprofessors remains anonymous.

“As long as you felt free to disclose any information,” she said. “I’d be less likely to post [than on Ratemyprofessors], probably.”

Mary Harrison, a College of Engineering junior, said she uses Ratemyprofessors and would probably use the new BU site when it came out.

“It depends on if people write good reviews, write accurate reviews of professors,” ENG junior Amy Nehring said. “That’s why Ratemyprofessors is useful.”

Allison Morris, a CAS freshman, said she uses Ratemyprofessors frequently, but does not post on the site. She said the BU site will need to be heavily advertised to gain student interest.

“Ratemyprofessors is so well known and so commonly used,” she said. “I don’t know if it would be as likely for people to just switch over to that.”