Faculty Assembly
| Communication Tools | ||
| Discussion Forum | (threaded online text conversation) | |
| Discussion Management | (accessing and scheduling) | |
| File Exchange | (upload/share files with instructors/students) | |
| Drop Box | (categorizable assignment turn-in; date/time stamp) | |
| Internal Email | (read/send inside an online course) | |
| External Email | (read/send outside an online course) | |
| Online Journal/Blog | (personal and private journals; with RSS) | |
| Wiki | (collaborative authoring of web pages) | |
| Real-time Chat | (instant text messaging) | |
| Audio Chat | (full-duplex) | |
| Whiteboard | (electronic version of dry-erase board) | |
| Audio Recording/Posting | (ability to record and upload sound) | |
| Announcements/News | (post news with RSS support) | |
| Application Sharing | (students see instructor's application in real time) | |
| Group Browsing | (students see instructor's browsing) | |
| Productivity Tools | ||
| Bookmarks | (allow easy return to pages within course) | |
| Calendar/Progress Review | (enable students to document their plans) | |
| Searching Within Course | (find course material based on key words) | |
| Work Offline/Synchronize | (work offline, synchronize at next log-in) | |
| Orientation/Help | (learn how to use the CMS) | |
| Student Involvement Tools | ||
| Groupwork | (organize class into groups, provide group work space) | |
| Community Networking | (students create groups w/o instructor intervention) | |
| Student Portfolios | (areas where students can showcase their work) | |
| Administration Tools | ||
| Authentication | (access by user name and password; LDAP/Kerberos) | |
| Course Authorization | (assign access privileges based on user roles) | |
| Registration Integration | (tools to add and drop students; self-registration) | |
| Interface with PeopleSoft | (roster in; grades out) | |
| Course Delivery Tools | ||
| Test Types | ||
| - Multiple choice | ||
| - Multiple answer | ||
| - Matching | ||
| - Calculated | ||
| - Fill-in the blank | ||
| - Short answer | ||
| - Survey questions | ||
| - Essay | ||
| - Questions w/ other media | (images, videos, audio) | |
| Automated Testing Management | (control of when/where/conditions) | |
| Secure Testing Windows | (don't allow copy/paste/print/IM, etc.) | |
| Automated Testing Support | (import/export test banks; analysis of results) | |
| Testing Standards Compatibility | (XHTML, IMS, QTI, HotPotatoes) | |
| Online Marking Tools | (evaluate and mark student work online) | |
| Online Gradebook | (includes grade weighting, dropping) | |
| Upload gradebook files | (tab, comma delimited; Excel) | |
| Course Management | (control the progression of an online class) | |
| Student Tracking | (track the usage of course materials by students) | |
| Content Development Tools | ||
| Accessibility Compliance | (meet standards for people with disabilities) | |
| Content Sharing/Reuse | (share content across courses/sections; "meta courses") | |
| Course Templates | (help create the initial structure for a course) | |
| Glossary | (tools for building a course glossary) | |
| Language and Symbol Support | (equations/accents/international phonetic alphabet/special symbols) | |
| Interface Language Switching | (change the language of the user interface) | |
| Customized Look and Feel | (change how a course looks; institutional branding) | |
| Instructional Design Tools | (e.g., lesson templates or wizards) | |
| Instructional Standards Compliance | (SCORM/IMS e-learning standards) | |
| Seamless Conversion From Current CMS Courses | ||
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