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| Product Name | Teknical Virtual Campus |
|---|---|
| Developer Name | Teknical Ltd |
| URL | Teknical Virtual Campus |
| Review Date | November 04, 2003 |
| Forums | Teknical Virtual Campus Discussions |
| Reviewer | Email Review Staff |
| Communication Tools | |
| Discussion Forums |
Discussions can be viewed by thread. Posts can include attachments. The discussion forums can include a moderation function. Discuss |
| File Exchange |
Students have a private folder into which they can upload and download files. Students can upload files to a shared group folder. Discuss |
| Internal Email | |
| Online Journal/Notes |
Students can make notes in a personal journal. Discuss |
| Real-time Chat |
The chat tool supports private messages. Instructors may suspend students from the chat rooms. Discuss |
| Video Services | |
| Whiteboard | |
| Productivity Tools | |
| Bookmarks |
Students can bookmark any content material in a course. Discuss |
| Orientation/Help |
The system includes an online user manual. Students can access context sensitive help for any tool. Discuss |
| Searching Within Course |
Students can search all course content. Discuss |
| Calendar/Progress Review |
Students can view all their assignments, deadlines, and due dates in an online course calendar. Students can use a course calendar to store private events. Instructors can post events and announcements in the online course calendar. The assignments can be sorted by learning topic or subject divisions and lists competencies achieved or competencies to be achieved. Discuss |
| Work Offline/Synchronize |
Upon re-entering a course, students have the option of resuming at the last page viewed. Discuss |
| Student Involvement Tools | |
| Groupwork |
Instructors can assign students to groups. Each group can have its own work folder, discussion group, chat room and shared calendar events. Students can collaboratively author a document using a version control tool. Discuss |
| Self-assessment |
Instructors can create self-assessments. The system automatically scores multiple choice, true/false, and multiple answer type questions and can display instructor-created feedback. Instructors can create a database of questions that the system will randomize to create a unique self-assessment for each student. Discuss |
| Student Community Building |
Students can use a shared chat space, notice boards, and share material privately within the group. Students from different courses can interact via system wide chat rooms or threaded discussions. Discuss |
| Student Portfolios | |
| Administration Tools | |
| Authentication |
Administrators can protect access to individual courses with a username and password. Discuss |
| Course Authorization | |
| Registration Integration |
The software supports integration with a number of student information systems such as Capita, Fretwell Downing, SITS and Microcompass. Administrators can transfer student information bi-directionally between the system and an SIS either in batch or in real time. Instructors can batch add students to a course using a delimited text file. The software is compliant with the IMS Enterprise Specification for Student Data. Discuss |
| Hosted Services |
The product provider offers a hosted system. Discuss |
| Course Delivery Tools | |
| Course Management |
Instructors can selectively release materials, assessments and announcements based on previous course activity or specific start and end dates. Instructors can set up specific course content that is released on a specific date and that students must complete before they continue with course. Instructors can design courses for instructor facilitated learning or system managed self-study. Discuss |
| Instructor Helpdesk |
Instructors can attend face-to-face training workshops and access context sensitive help. Instructors can contact the 24/7 technical support helpdesk by email and phone if their organization purchased this level of technical support. Discuss |
| Online Grading Tools |
Instructors can mark all assessments not automatically scored online. Instructors can delegate the responsibility for grading assignments. Discuss |
| Student Tracking |
Instructors can get a report that shows number of attempts and time per attempt on each assessment for individual students. Discuss |
| Automated Testing and Scoring |
Instructors can create automatically scored true/false, multiple choice, multiple answer and fill-in-the-blank questions. Questions can contain images, video, other media files. Instructors can create feedback messages. Instructors can import questions from existing test banks. The system can randomize the questions in a test and the alternatives for multiple choice questions. Discuss |
| Curriculum Design | |
| Accessibility Compliance | |
| Course Templates | |
| Curriculum Management | |
| Customized Look and Feel | |
| Instructional Standards Compliance |
The product provider self-tested the software and reports that it is compliant with IMS Meta-data v1.2.1 IMS Content Packaging v1.1.2, IMS QTI lite v1.1, IMS QTi v1.1, as well as AICC's guidelines for interoperability CMI001 version 3.02, and SCORM Version 1.2 LMS–RTE2 Discuss |
| Instructional Design Tools |
Instructors can create both linear and nonlinear learning sequences. Discuss |
| Content Sharing/Reuse | |
| Hardware/Software | |
| Client Browser Required |
For PCs, the software requires Internet Explorer 5.5+, and Netscape 7+ and for Macintosh, the software requires Netscape 7+. Discuss |
| Database Requirements |
The system requires either MS SQL Server 2000 or 2003 Discuss |
| Server Software | |
| UNIX Server | |
| Windows Server |
The software is available for either Windows 2000 or 2003 server. Discuss |
| Pricing/Licensing | |
| Company Profile |
Founded in 1997, the company is located in Hessle, East Yorkshire, The United Kingdom. Teknical forms part of Feedback Plc, which is the corporate identity of a group of British high-technology companies that address international markets in the provision of web, Intranet and laboratory-based training solutions for education and industry. Discuss |
| Costs |
The price of the Virtual Campus software license is based on the number of registered users. Technical support is included provided as part of the license fee. Discuss |
| Open Source | |
| Optional Extras | |
| Software Version |
The current software version number is 4.0. Discuss |
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