E-Learning Platform

With the world becoming a global village; all thanks to the penetration of internet in our daily lives. The space of e-learning has had far reaching impact on how business of education has changed in the last decade and more. We as the enablers have also ventured in the space of e-learning solutions and developed a solution around e-learning delivery and a complete platform. So besides creating the e-learning content this platform will pretty much let you run your complete e-learning business.

The platform has been designed to effectively engage all the stake holders

• E-learning service provider
• Students
• Parents
• Administrators
• Tutors

Following are the features and functionalities that the platform can deliver for your e-learning business.

General

An intuitive interface with the ability for users to add their own personal information, photographs, interests etc. Site can offer a flexible pick-and-mix approach to a range of educational support tools that designers can select and use when planning and building an online course.

Personal Organizations

• Calendar: High light key dates and events in the course year and link to assessments due
• Personal Profile: Student photographs with their other information
• To Do List: Students can set their own goals and produce task lists
• My Grades: Shows how students are progressing through a course, quiz or test, with an online report including assessment scores and feedback comments

Communication

• A range of communication tools Discussion Forum, Chatroom, Message and Blog and Journal
• E-mail allows you to message the tutor and the course administrator
• Announcements tool allows messages to be sent by administrators to everyone on a course
• Who's Online provides live chat with whoever is online by invite - useful for pre-arranged one-to-one or small group meetings
• Students can set their own Personal Bookmarks and weblinks, store these and make them available regardless of which computer they are sitting at
• Facebook and twitter implementation

Assessment

• The ability for staff and students to access their grades, assessments, feedback comments, and guidance at any time
• Assessments (quizzes, surveys and self-tests) to support formative assessment - questions can be 'banked' and new assessments generated quickly from question banks
• Online Grade Book and Grading Forms can produce reports on student performance

Learning resources

• Course designers can develop courses using media-rich material including video, audio, Flash Able to import standard Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files
• Ability to link to any resource which has a web address, Content generated in the system can be exported between courses and re-used using standard protocols (SCORM, IMS)
• Learning content can be selectively released to students on key dates
• Tracking shows when students have accessed the system and their progress
• Learning materials designed with templates to ensure consistency
• Learning content can be updated easily

Support features

• Online Help and Glossary
• FAQ
• Video tutorials

Internal mailbox / message system

• Send messages to any user inside the LMS
• Possibility of file attachment

Administration

• Sets up the program/courses/schedules for trainees and trainers
• Sets up training rules, credit rules, prerequisites and grading rules
• Approves and authorizes trainees
• Sets up surveys
• Oversees and monitors the entire education process from A-Z
• Adds documents to the digital library
• Adds recorded sessions and videos to the archiving system

Content Manager

• Static pages
• Email List

Subject management

• Subject list

Price management

• Price list

Report Management

• Payment report
• Student attendance report

Other Features

• A forum for students
• A forum for Teachers / Instructors
• A complete demo for marketing purposes
• In the students account web page,
  -Latest news about subjects
  -Quizzes/test records
  -final records
• Each student must have subjects schedule (times & dates) for each semester
• Each instructor must have teaching / lectures schedule (times & dates) for each semester
• Types of secure completion certificates (Authorized by admission office only) (possible award icons behind user names)

User Management

• User roles

Default user roles:
- Learner
- Trainer
- Assistant
- administrator

• Custom user roles creation
• Import/export users:
  - CSV lists
• User groups and user group's management:
  - Global (whole LMS level) user groups
  - Local (course level) user groups
• Self-registration and self-enrollment
• Registration and enrollment by administrator approval
• Manual registration and enrollment of users by administrator

Calendar

• Event list on the main portal board and on the users Home Page

General Course Features

• Courses export/import
• Courses templates
• Configure course completion criteria
• Set course availability period
• Searchable course catalogue:
  - Tree-view courses catalogue
• Course certificates
• Free (school owned) and paid courses
• My Courses on the users Home Page
• Different look and feel for each course using themes

Course Materials

• File Library
• Build Learning Paths from course elements:
  - Add quizzes
  - Add links
  - Add documents
  - Add content pages
  - Add SCORM packages
• Hierarchical chapter structure in Learning Paths:
  - Learning Paths consist of chapters
  - Chapters consist of steps
• Resume from last attempt
• Upload and manage documents in different formats:
  - Audio
  - Video
  - HTML
  - Text, rich text
  -.pdf etc…
• Create links for any documents
• Hierarchical documents structure
• sitemap creation

Quizzes

• Create surveys and quizzes
• Question pool
• Configure feedback:
  - Custom feedback for quizzes
  - Custom feedback for individual questions
• Print/e-mail quiz results
• Set number of attempts
• View quiz statistics
• Quiz reports
• Point rewarding system
• Quiz results published in Grade Book

Attendance

• User Attendance control
• CSV results export

Communication Tools

• Course forums:
• Course chat:
  - Chatting users list
• E-mail & SMS
• Course announcements:
  - Announcements publishing period
• Exchange messages and files without using e-mail:
  - Attach files to messages
• Chat:
  - Private/group chats
  - History view

Learners Performance Management

• Track learner performance and grades
• Export data in different formats:
  - CSV
  - TXT
  - XLS
  - PDF
• Track users' activity statistics
• Track the learning materials usage statistics
• Assign homework:
  - Define homework publishing period
• Home Work / Assignments:
  - Track and change Home Work status

Reporting

• Export reports in different formats:
  - CSV
  - TXT
  - XLS
  - PDF
• View reports:
  - Learner progress report
  - Course completion report
  - Course materials access report
• Configure criteria and filters for reports

E-commerce

• Recurrent payments:
  - Available for PayPal, Credit Cards, transfer to bank account and other payment methods
• Issue invoices:
  - Automatic invoice configuration
• Coupon codes
• Sell subscriptions to courses
• Different types of native subscriptions:
  - Basic
  - Date to date
  - Date to lifetime
  - X days access
• Different native payment methods:
  - 2Checkout
  - Authorize.net
  - Offline bank transfer
  - PayPal Standard
  - WorldPay Select Junior
• View detailed payments statistics
• Marketing promotions:
  - Send free invitations with coupon codes via internet by E-mail and SMS