Technetto Classroom Brochure
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The document discusses features of Technetto's Classroom product, which is a learning management system. It provides tools for educators to create online courses, control access, upload and share materials, conduct exams and quizzes, track attendance and grades, and communicate with students. Some key capabilities include hosting both fully online and blended courses, integrating with other systems via authentication and SMS, and providing customizable user roles, course formats, and grading options. The goal is to help educators effectively deliver instruction both online and in-person.
Technetto Classroom Brochure
- 1. W : www.technetto.com E : support@technetto.com Technetto Solutions And More.. Brochure Year 2009 Classroom
- 2. Classroom Purpose After all, we've run classes for thousands of years Student demand, Student schedules and Better courses. without the use of computers and the Web. "Chalk and talk" is still the predominant method of delivering You probably heard all of this in the early '90s. So, instruction. While traditional face-to-face meetings can what's changed? Nothing!!! We've just heard about web still be effective, applying the tools listed in Classroom and Internet but couldn't explore and make fruitful use of opens up new possibilities for learning that weren't it. This is the time to be equipped with all the features to possible twenty years ago. To effectively combine online compete and deliver quality in this emerging and and face-to-face learning is what is called "hybrid" courses demanding world. or "blended learning.” Hybrid courses combine the best of both worlds. Imagine moving most of your content delivery to an online environment and saving your course time for discussion, questions, and problem solving. Many instructors have found they can save time and increase student learning by allowing students to engage in the material outside of class. This allows them to use face-to-face time for troubleshooting. There are a number of other reasons to think about using a CMS in your courses like 1 www.technetto.com
- 3. Road With Classroom After all, we've run classes for thousands of years Student demand, Student schedules and Better courses. without the use of computers and the Web. "Chalk and talk" is still the predominant method of delivering instruction. While You probably heard all of this in the early '90s. So, traditional face-to-face meetings can still be effective, what's changed? Nothing!!! We've just heard about web and applying the tools listed in Classroom opens up new Internet but couldn't explore and make fruitful use of it. This is possibilities for learning that weren't possible twenty years the time to be equipped with all the features to compete and ago. To effectively combine online and face-to-face learning deliver quality in this emerging and demanding world. is what is called "hybrid" courses or "blended learning.” Hybrid courses combine the best of both worlds. Imagine moving most of your content delivery to an online environment and saving your course time for discussion, questions, and problem solving. Many instructors have found they can save time and increase student learning by allowing students to engage in the material outside of class. This allows them to use face-to-face time for troubleshooting. There are a number of other reasons to think about using a CMS in your courses like 3 www.technetto.com
- 4. Brief Overview Online courses & Examination. SMS Integration at different required events. Classroom give educators tools to create a course web site and provide access control, so that only enrolled students Application is available in different languages as per the can view it. requirement. It helps in Uploading and sharing materials, Creating Promotes a social constructionist pedagogy forums, chats & quizzes, Gathering and reviewing (collaboration, activities, critical reflection, etc) assignments, Recording grades,… Suitable for 100% online classes as well as Maintain&ManageStudentInformationmoreEfficiently& supplementing face-to-face learning Efficiently. Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech Communicate with Students and Parents easily. browser interface Analyze the Performance of a class / batch as a whole Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the through Student Rank-Books. server, including accessibility to guests. Track Student Attendance and report them via SMS to Courses can be categorised and searched - one Classroom relevant recipients. site can support thousands of courses Manage your own Security levels. Emphasis on strong security throughout. Forms are all checked, data validated, cookies encrypted etc Maintain Rank Reports. Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can Maintain an online Billing & Payment system. be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor 3 2 www.technetto.com
- 5. User Management Overview Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high security. Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication modules, allowing easy integration with existing systems. Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email addresses are verified by confirmation. LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin can specify which fields to use. IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. SSL, certificates and TLS are supported. Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos, description. Email addresses can be protected from display if required. Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in Classroom is translated to that timezone (e.g. posting dates, assignment due dates etc) Every user can choose the language used for the College Studio interface (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc) 4 www.technetto.com
- 6. Enrollment Roles Teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to Roles for specific participants can be defined for each keep out non-students. They can give out this key face- course. to-face or via personal email etc An admin account controls the creation of courses and Teachers can enrol students manually if desired creates teachers by assigning users to courses. Teachers can unenrol students manually if desired, Course creators can create courses, teach in them, and otherwise they are automatically unenrolled after a assign others to teacher roles. certain period of inactivity (set by the admin) Teachers are a role in a specific course. External database: any database containing at least two fields can be used as an external authentication source. Non-editing teacher roles are available for adjuncts, and part-time tutors. Each person requires only one account for the whole server - each account can have different access Meta courses can group together related courses so participants can interact with each other 5 www.technetto.com
- 7. Course Management Overview A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focussed social format Course Themes. A course can have its own theme of colors and layout. Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops Groups - teacher(s) and students can be placed in one or more groups Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the course home page - helps give sense of community Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file) Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings etc on one page. Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text. Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments Courses can be packaged as a single zip file using the Backup function. These can be restored on any Classroom server. 6 www.technetto.com
- 8. Assignment Module Chat Module Assignments can be specified with a due date and a Allows smooth, synchronous text interaction maximum grade. Includes profile pictures in the chat window Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - they are date-stamped. Supports URLs, smilies, embedded HTML, images etc Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of All sessions are logged for later viewing, and these can lateness is shown clearly to the teacher also be made available to students For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and comment) on one page in one form. Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and notification is mailed out. The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading (for regrading) Allowing resubmissions can allow the teacher to progress monitor student projects/assignments as they evolve. Advanced assignments can allow multiple files to be uploaded. This could keep together preplanning maps, outlines, research papers and presentations. (Not for beginners) 7 www.technetto.com
- 9. Forum Module Choice Module Different types of forums are available, such as teacher- only, course news, open-to-all, and one-thread-per- user. Like a poll. Can either be used to vote on something, or to get feedback from every student (eg research consent) All postings have the authors photo attached. Teacher sees intuitive table view of who chose what Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first. Students can optionally be allowed to see an up-to-date graph of results Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all. The teacher can choose not to allow replies (eg for an announcements-only forum) Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums by the teacher Attached images are shown inline If forum ratings are being used, these can be restricted to a range of dates 8 www.technetto.com
- 10. Lesson Module A lesson is a series of pages which can be presented in a linear fashion, like a slide show, or in a non-linear, branching manner, or in a combination of the two. Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, logical or random Pages can allow students choices through answers to teacher directed questions or descriptions Each choice can be associated with jumps that link to other tables Offers different scoring and grading potentials Interfaces with Grade and Glossary modules Glossary Module Lessons can build upon each other through conditional dependencies upon one another This is one of the modules that best illustrates the way that Classroom can fundamentally improve upon the Question pages include Multiple choice, Multi-answer, experience of a traditional classroom T/F, numeric, short answer and essay. When students contribute to a course in a public place Pages can be imported either as questions in a variety of like the glossary, their ideas are given weight and formats or from PowerPoints attention and often result in a greater pride or ownership of the assignment Student attempts, time limits, minimum score and retakes can be set. Allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary Page content is HTML compatible, with a full set of edit tools for the teacher Student entries can be previewed by instructors before publishing Students may see progress bars, running score, reinforcement to student questions Entries can be searched or browsed using alphabet, category, date, and author Password, start and end times, and other restrictions can be placed on students. A glossary of terms can be easily referenced by students Almost any module of Classroom can be set to hyperlink - automatically - to any word or phrase that is stored in or added to the glossary Glossary items can be grouped in categories Participants can comment on glossary entries Entries can be rated using teacher-defined scales 9 Glossaries can be easily exported and imported via xml Glossaries can be fully searched Glossaries can be viewed with different display formats
- 11. Quiz Module Resource Module Teachers can define a database of questions for re-use in Supports display of any electronic content, Word, different quizzes Powerpoint, Flash, Video, Sounds etc. that are stored locally, or remotely Questions can be stored in categories for easy access, and these categories can be "published" to make them Files can be uploaded and managed (zipped, unzipped, accessible from any course on the site. renamed, moved, etc..) on the server Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded Folders can be created and managed on the server and if questions are modified linked to Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of Internal web pages (html formatted) can be created with which they are not available WYSIWYG editor and linked to At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted Internal text pages (no formatting) can be created and multiple times, and can show feedback and/or correct linked to answers External content on the web can be linked to or Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled seamlessly included within the course interface. (randomised) to reduce cheating External web applications can be linked to with data Questions allow HTML and images passed to them Questions can be imported from external text files Linked MP3 audio files will display with elegant flash player Quizzes can be attempted multiple times, if desired Attempts can be cumulative, if desired, and finished over several sessions Multiple-choice questions supporting single or multiple answers Short Answer questions (words or phrases) True-False questions Matching questions Random questions Numerical questions (with allowable ranges) Embedded-answer questions (cloze style) with answers within passages of text Embedded descriptive text and graphics 10 www.technetto.com
- 12. Survey Module Built-in surveys (COLLES, ATTLS) have been proven as instruments for analysing online classes Wiki Module Online survey reports always available, including many Wiki is a web page that anyone can add to or edit graphs. Data is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file. It enables documents to be authored collectively and supports collaborative learning Survey interface prevents partly-finished surveys. Old versions are not deleted and may be restored if Feedback is provided to the student of their results required compared to the class averages Workshop Module Allows peer assessement of documents, and the teacher can manage and grade the assessment. Supports a wide range of possible grading scales 11 Teacher can provide sample documents for students to practice grading Very flexible with many options.
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