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| Product Name | Jones e-education V2004 |
|---|---|
| Developer Name | Jones Knowledge, Inc. |
| URL | Jones Knowledge, Inc. |
| Review Date | January 01, 1900 |
| Forums | Jones e-education V2004 Discussions |
| Reviewer | Email Review Staff |
| Communication Tools | |
| Discussion Forums |
Discussions can be viewed by date, by thread, by title, by author, by the type of post and by topics defined by the instructor. Instructors can associate a discussion with any course content. Instructors may create separate discussion environments for small groups. Instructors can limit discussions to specific time periods. Posts can include attachments. Discuss |
| File Exchange |
Students can submit assignments using drop boxes. Instructors can upload files to the personal folder of a student. Students can also upload files to a shared course folder. Discuss |
| Internal Email |
Students can use the Internal email feature to email individuals and groups. Discuss |
| Online Journal/Notes |
Students can make notes in a personal journal. Discuss |
| Real-time Chat | |
| Video Services | |
| Whiteboard | |
| Productivity Tools | |
| Bookmarks |
Students can share bookmarks in a course folder. Discuss |
| Orientation/Help |
The system includes an online course, which can be customized or replaced by the institution, to help students learn how to use the system. Discuss |
| Searching Within Course |
Students can search all discussion threads by keyword or author. Discuss |
| Calendar/Progress Review |
Students can keep track of all their assignments, deadlines, and due dates in their personal calendars. Students can view their completed and pending course readings and activities. Students can view their grades. Discuss |
| Work Offline/Synchronize |
Instructors can publish course content on a CD-ROM that can be linked to dynamically from within the online course or viewed offline. Students can compile and download course content. Discuss |
| Student Involvement Tools | |
| Groupwork |
Instructors can assign students to groups. Each group can have its own shared group presentation folder and discussion forum. Discuss |
| Self-assessment |
Instructors can create timed or un-timed self-assessments that students can take (multiple times. The system automatically scores multiple choice, true/false, matching and multiple answer type questions and can display instructor-created feedback, explanations and links to relevant course material. Discuss |
| Student Community Building | |
| Student Portfolios |
Students can create a personal home page. Students’ personal home pages may include their photo, personal information and links to important websites. Students have a private and team folder for displaying their work in every course in which they are enrolled. Discuss |
| Administration Tools | |
| Authentication |
Administrators can protect access to individual courses with a username and password. User logins can be encrypted with SSL. Passwords stored in the system database are encrypted. Discuss |
| Course Authorization |
Administrators can assign different levels of access to the system or courses based on the following pre-defined roles: instructors, teaching assistants, students, guests, administrators, system administrators, client administrators. Administrators can customize existing roles. Discuss |
| Registration Integration |
Administrators can batch add students to the system using a delimited text file. Discuss |
| Hosted Services |
The product provider offers a hosted system through Link-Systems. Hosting is also available from Embanet, which provides daily and offsite tape backups, system clustering, managed bandwidth usage, and multiple Internet service providers to provide redundant fail-over capabilities. Discuss |
| Course Delivery Tools | |
| Course Management |
Instructors can selectively release materials, assessments and announcements based on specific start and end dates. Instructors can personalize access to specific course materials based on student performance or specific start and end dates. Discuss |
| Instructor Helpdesk |
Instructors can access the online instructor guide, help, and the product user group. Instructors can contact the 24/7 technical support helpdesk by email, a toll-free phone number, or voice mail. Discuss |
| Online Grading Tools |
Instructors can grade essays and fill-in-the-blank questions online. Instructors can add the grades for offline assignments to the online gradebook. Instructors can create a course grading scale that can employ either percentages, letter grades or pass/fail metrics. Instructors can provide feedback on all assignments through annotations. Discuss |
| Student Tracking |
Instructors can get reports showing the number of times, time and date, duration and frequency with which each student accessed course content, discussion forums, course assessments. Instructors can get a report that shows number of attempts and time per attempt on each assessment for individual students. Instructors can view a report that flags students not participating in their courses and provides their contact information. Usage statistics can also be aggregated across courses and across the institution. Discuss |
| Automated Testing and Scoring |
Instructors can create automatically scored true/false, multiple choice, matching and multiple answer questions. Instructors can create fill-in-the-blank, and short answer/essay questions. Instructors can create feedback messages. Instructors can set a time limit on a test. Instructors can create personal test banks and the system can use these test banks to create tests for students. Instructors can also override the automated scoring and determine how to communicate test results to students. Discuss |
| Curriculum Design | |
| Accessibility Compliance | |
| Course Templates |
The software provides support for template-based content creation. Instructors can use templates to create announcements, calendar entries, course content, and the syllabus and course descriptions. The templates include a WYSIWYG content editor. Instructors can clone and modify the default the templates, and can create new content templates. Discuss |
| Curriculum Management | |
| Customized Look and Feel |
Institutions can apply their own institutional headers across all courses. All content pages are stand-alone Web pages, rather than being generated from the software. Discuss |
| Instructional Standards Compliance |
The system supports the import of course content that is IMS compliant. Discuss |
| Instructional Design Tools |
Instructors can import courses built in the third party Wisconsin Instructional Design System (WIDS), which is a performance-based instructional design software product. Instructors can create lesson content using instructional design guides and customizable lesson templates. Discuss |
| Content Sharing/Reuse | |
| Hardware/Software | |
| Client Browser Required |
The software supports Internet Explorer 4+, Netscape Navigator 4.08 and 4.7, and AOL 4+. Discuss |
| Database Requirements |
The system requires a MySQL database. Discuss |
| Server Software |
The software requires PHP, MySQL, Java 2 SDK, web server software such as Apache, and a servlet engine such as Tomcat, Jetty, or JRUN. The server administration tools can be accessed over the Web but there is also a set of server-side administration scripts. Typically, local administrators install the software. Discuss |
| UNIX Server |
The software is available for Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X. Suggested minimum hardware recommendations are: one 400 MHz CPU with 256 MB RAM and 50 GB disk space. Discuss |
| Windows Server | |
| Pricing/Licensing | |
| Company Profile |
Jones Knowledge, Inc. was established in 1987. The first version of its CMS product, Jones e-education: Software Standard, was launched in 1997. Jones Knowledge also provides licensable online library content and services for K-12, higher ed, and public libraries and licensable online course content. Jones International University was the first fully online university to be regionally accredited. The Jones Advisory Group is a consulting service that helps organizations launch online programs, develop content, etc. Other Jones companies provide educational programming, integrated customer web portals, and various media content and services. Discuss |
| Costs | |
| Open Source |
The license under which the software is available for free to qualifying post-secondary institutions provides the source code and permits the modification of the source code for internal purposes. The license does not permit any derived works or re-distribution and the title and copyright of the source code are retained by the product provider. Discuss |
| Optional Extras |
The software is pre-configured to integrate with WWWhiteboard from Link-Systems, Inc. The 3rd-party whiteboard supports mathematical and scientific symbols, group web browsing, application sharing, and real-time chat. This software, WWWhiteboard, must be licensed separately from from Link-Systems, Inc. The product provider also offers needs assessment, course content development, instructional design, Web design, a content library, professional development, online library services, marketing assistance. There is a user community site at www.jonesstandard.org Discuss |
| Software Version |
The current software version number is Jones Standard V2004. Discuss |
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