The multimedia courseware is being used in a large number in the teaching process and has been an important sign of the modern teaching means. The application of the multimedia courseware helps achieve the effectiveness that other means can hardly get. This pa- per probes into the advantages and the present situation of the multimedia couseware and studies the producing requirements, princples and process of developing a multimedia courseware. And it also applies a number of recommendations and deals with some of the main issues in developing a couseware.