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VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY
APPLIANCE FEATURES
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Technology |
Two major trends are
fundamentally changing software development for
enterprises – Distributed Teams' and 'Open Source'
software. Our product, The Virtual University Appliance
incorporates 'Open Source' software standards such
as Linux, Java, J2EE, XML, SQL, JSP and HTML into the
foundation. We are seeing more and more corporations
adopting open source standards, and often adapting them
into the core of their own application development
efforts. Our approach to enables us to provide our
customers with an application foundation that can be
maintained by distributed teams across the globe. 'Open
Source aware' programming resources around the world can
lower customization costs, can be highly productive -
and help customers avoid costly proprietary software
risks..
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Product Description/Overview |
The Virtual University
Appliance is a combined hardware and software solution that provides a
centralized point for configuration, management and monitoring of all
aspects of E-Learning, including content, courses, students, instructors,
assessments, exams and other elements, while simplifying
management tasks and reducing cost. It offers a comprehensive and
cost-effective solution
for the enterprises that want to launch E-Learning programs and at the the
same time manage their existing Learning initiatives since the platform
supports 'blended-learning' and can manage all aspects of learning in an
organization. Designed to connect to the Internet/Intranet, the Virtual
University Appliance is a 'Turn-Key' system that
performs E-Learning management functions using a browser.
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Cost-effective: reduces TCO
with a centralized approach to training, E-Learning content and
training resource management
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Manageable:
provides an easy
web-based interface for e-learning, training events, course
management, learner management and instructor/mentor management
anytime, anywhere -
High-performance: ensures
fast and reliable access to content and learner activities -
Open
Standards: delivers an 'open-standards' approach to
e-learning content creation, aggregation and management ensuring
investment and asset protection -
Available:
redundancy in
storage enables easy recovery from potential hardware failures
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Comprehensive: provides all the
features necessary for end-to-end E-Learning content creation,
delivery and management in a single box.
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LMS Feature List |
- Simple, easy to use web-based, centralized user
interface
- Customized views for students, instructors,
administration, authors and guest users
- Log-in, authentication and security of course
access
- Role-based access and authorization to all
features
- Comprehensive Course cataloging with SCORM
metadata and keyword searching
- Launch and track e-learning created locally and stored
in local LCMS or purchase and publish content from third-party courseware
vendors
- Manage instructor-led classes
- Enrollment and student progress tracking
- Resource allocation (room scheduling, equipment,
etc.) for instructor- led classes
- Calendaring system (personal calendar for
time-based events)
- Instructor and course evaluation - built-in
student and instructor evaluations and surveys that
can be linked to On-Line courses, Web-Casts or
In-Class sessions
- Other Human Capital Management functionality
(instructor recruitment, instructor performance reviews, etc.)
- E-commerce (purchase courses online)
- Collaboration and mentoring tools for learners and
instructors include learner-to- instructor (and vice
versa) E-Mail, Live Chat, Threaded discussion
(Discussion forums are online discussion groups in
which users can view and post messages and attach
documents for others to view or edit. In the
discussion forums there can be any number of
discussion threads. Discussion forums moderators have
the ability to allow individuals to post articles
anonymously)
- Built-in Online Examination/Quiz repository for
creating and administrating Online Exams
- Group learners into work groups for
group study sessions, exercises and workshops
- Integration with Live voice-over IP, Webcasting
systems and Streaming Video Servers enables the use
many of the core services in a single interface
providing unparalleled breadth of 'Blended-learning'
capabilities which encompass In-Class, Web-Cast and
Self-Study.
- Automation of complex and repetitive E-Learning
management tasks
- Single Virtual University can support multiple
departments and divisions
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Content Creation/Aggregation Features List |
- Centralized web-based configuration interface for
easy content management
- Built-in Learning Content Repository stores
complete courses as well as learning objects for the
purpose of creating, storing, reusing, managing and
delivering learning content from a central object
repository to learners throughout the organization.
- Built-in Exams/Quiz features - Exams and Quizzes
can be linked to On-Line courses, Web-Casts or
In-Class sessions
- Content assembly and rapid content aggregation
facility
- Support for mixed heterogeneous content creation
tools and platforms
- Ability to accept content from a wide variety of
sources (Word, PowerPoint, Flash, FrontPage,
Dreamweaver, PDF, raw media files, other forms of
legacy content, etc.).
- A well-defined database-centric schema for
storing, retrieving, managing and aggregating learning
objects.
- Maximum reusability of learning content in a
variety of ways, including finding individual media
objects for use in other courses, the ability to reuse
entire topics in other courses, the ability to use
groups of topics (modules) in other courses, the
ability to reuse an entire course, make changes and
only store the differences.
- Reuse content from another course in a new course
- Create a series of test questions using the quiz
wizard
- Comprehensive Tagging capabilities - Content can
be metadata tagged at any level such as Course,
Lesson, Module (unit), Topic level, Page level, Media
objects level such as Graphics, Audio/ video, Text
objects. The Scalable tagging schema allows content
authors to set properties using a graphical user
interface.
- Navigational controls wizard. These controls
are Next (Forward), Back (Previous), Exit (Quit),
Course menu, Glossary of Terms, Help, Bookmark, Notes
(learners can write their own notes), Discussion
Forums (ask an expert), Chat and FAQ.
- Multilingual localization capabilities - All
content is XML and the application is written in Java
making it theoretically capable of authoring in any
language. The user would select the language in the
OS, and the system would provide the correct character
set and keyboard-mapping.
- Flexible publishing - Copy courses to a local
machine or CD- ROM. This Offline courses feature
allows non-connected learners (learner that do not
have access to the Internet) to take the course
offline on their desktop or laptop)
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