Course Management Tools
Manage courses like never before! The powerful, robust, and easy-to-use toolset found in the Learning Environment empowers your institution to design, develop, and deliver effective courses where users can achieve results. The extensive functionality enables you to decide to what extent users will be assessed and monitored, and the seamless integration between the tools ensures your time is used efficiently.
Gradebook
The Learning Environment gradebook enables novice users to get started quickly, while offering the powerful feature set required to support the demands of the most advanced users. The setup wizard streamlines the process of configuring the gradebook and provides flexible setup options that empower instructors to implement the grading system that best works for their individual course. To save time, you can enter grades in a simple spreadsheet-style interface or import grades from Microsoft Excel. The gradebook is also integrated with the competency framework, consolidating the two assessment mechanisms and expanding the range of course activities that can be tied to learner competencies.
Classlist
The classlist tool enables you to manually register learners in their course or quickly import multiple users from a text file. This tool also provides a valuable means of tracking user progress through the course: students can be identified who are falling behind and an early intervention can happen to ensure learner success. Moreover, the classlist assists in the formation of an online learning community by enabling users to view a listing of their peers and links to peer profiles, homepages, shared files, and other resources.
The Learning Environment includes a fully-featured email system that your institutions can configure for internal-only or internal and external messaging, or integrate with any existing IMAP system including Microsoft Exchange, Groupwise, and Sun iPlanet. The email tool automatically associates messages and contacts with course offerings, and facilitates continuous communication with the rest of a user's experience.
Schedule
The schedule tool provides an integrated calendar to help users stay on top of coursework and upcoming deadlines. You can automatically add important dates to users' calendars through a variety of course tools and site administrators can add system-wide events to inform users of scheduled downtime, exam periods and other important events.
