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- | ===== Brief Description ====== | + | ===== Short Description ====== |
- | Open eClass (ver.3.5) | + | The Open eClass |
- | The Open eClass platform is a complete Course Management System, used to store and present educational materials. It is the solution offered by the Greek Academic Network (GUnet) to support asynchronous elearning services. Its goal is the incorporation and constructive use of the Internet and web technologies in the teaching and learning process. | + | ===== Features |
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- | The introduction of e-learning into the traditional teaching process provides new capabilities and allows new means of interaction between students and teachers. At the same time, it supports the electronic management, storage and presentation of teaching materials, transcending limitations of space and time and creating the necessary conditions for a dynamic teaching environment. | + | [{{ : |
- | The Open eClass platform | + | **Compatibility with all browsers**: Open eClass is accessed using a simple web browser. |
- | The Open eClass platform | + | **Customizable user interface**: |
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- | ===== Features and functionalities ===== | ||
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- | * **Compatibility with all browsers**: Access to Open eClass is done using a simple browser (web browser). The Open eClass platform is fully functional in all browsers. | ||
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- | * **Adaptive User Interface**: | ||
- | * **Compatibility with e-learning standards**: | + | **Compatibility with e-learning standards**: |
- | Basic platform | + | **Creation & Management of Online Courses**. Specifically, |
- | - distinct user roles | + | |
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- | - easy course creation | + | |
- | - structured course presentation | + | * **discrete course formats**: simple format, weekly format, module-based course |
- | - stability | + | |
- | - ease of administration | + | * **backups**: |
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+ | * **distinct user roles**: teacher, student, administrator (additional roles: teacher assistant, Group Turor, guest), | ||
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+ | ==== Management of educational content ==== | ||
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+ | * **Multimedia**: | ||
+ | * **Blog**: Publishing text posts in chronological order. | ||
+ | * **Glossary**: | ||
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+ | * **Links**: Adding and organizing useful resources from the Internet . | ||
+ | * **Learning Path**: Organization of educational material into structured | ||
+ | * **H5P content**: a tool for creating interactive | ||
+ | * **Mindmap**: | ||
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+ | ==== Information, | ||
+ | * **Announcements**: | ||
+ | * **Calendar**: | ||
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+ | * **Announcments**: | ||
+ | * **Forum**: Asynchronous exchange of views and ideas. | ||
+ | * **Teleconference**: | ||
+ | * **Groups**: Grouping users to have a common discussion area and file upload area. | ||
+ | *** Wiki**: Collaborative authoring. | ||
+ | * **Chat**: Real-time communication by text message, between instructors | ||
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+ | ==== Evaluation & feedback tools ==== | ||
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+ | * Assignments: | ||
+ | * Questionnaires: | ||
+ | * Gradebook: Recording trainee scores. | ||
+ | * Attendance: Recording trainee attendance/ | ||
+ | * Progress: helps learners to improve their performance and achieve their goals | ||
+ | * Statistics: User statistics. | ||
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+ | **E-learning management tools** | ||
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+ | * Settings: the basic course settings tool (title, description, | ||
+ | * Users: List of registered users, roles, registration and de-registration of users (individual, | ||
+ | * Tools: enable, disable, add external tools (links, tools, LTI, etc.). | ||
+ | * Learning analytics: Analytical reports on monitoring and achievement | ||
- | ==== User Roles ==== | ||
- | * The user teacher is responsible for the creation and administration of electronic courses. Teacher accounts are created by the platform administrators, | ||
- | * The user student can register to courses making an open registration, | ||
- | * Finally, the administrator has general control over the platform. Administrators can create and administer user accounts and courses, monitor the server and database operation. | ||
- | Note: There is a number of intermediate user roles | ||
- | ==== Course Categories ==== | ||
- | * Open courses are publicly accessible, even by visitors without a user account. | ||
- | * Registration required restricted courses are accessible to platform users that are registered to them. This means that these courses are open to everyone having an account. For additional security the course teacher can set a registration password. | ||
- | * Finally, closed courses are only accessible to users after a course teacher allows access to their account by registering them to the course. | ||
- | Note: There are also inactive courses. | ||
- | ==== Functionality & Features ==== | ||
- | The eCourse is the core part of the Open eClass platform. Each eCourse is an autonomous entity which integrates a number of learning tools. More specifically, | ||
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- | - **Agenda**, presents crucial course events in time order (lectures, meetings, etc) | ||
- | - **Documents**, | ||
- | - **Announcements**, | ||
- | - **Forums**, where students can participate in conversation groups and exchange opinions on various aspects of the course | ||
- | - **Groups**, open or closed, consist of users registered to the course (students and teachers) | ||
- | - **Links**, on the web to resources relevant to the aspects of the course | ||
- | - **Student Assignments**, | ||
- | - **Self-evaluation Exercises**, | ||
- | - **Course Description**, | ||
- | - **Glossary**, | ||
- | - **E-Book**, a module for uploading and presenting electronic books in HTML format | ||
- | - **Multimedia**, | ||
- | - **Learning Path** allows teachers to organize their educational material and students to follow a sequence of learning activity steps (SCORM) | ||
- | - **Wiki**, where course participants collaborate on documents, allowing everyone to edit document pages while maintaining full history of changes | ||
- | - **Teleconference**, | ||
- | - **Questionnaires**, | ||
- | - **Drop Box**, is a file and messaging exchange area for students and teachers | ||
- | - **Course Administration Tools**, allowing teachers to configure course information (title, keywords, etc.), control eCourse access settings, renew or delete the eCourse, manage registered users, view usage statistics and activate / deactivate eCourse learning tools. | ||
- | - ** Atendance ** students can check their exercises, tasks, activities, workshops. | ||
- | - ** Wall ** allow students and teachers to apply in chronological order a set of multiple content posts | ||
- | - ** Video ** teachers can upload multimedia files in several formats like mpeg, avi, flv, etc. | ||
- | - ** Gradebook ** allow teachers to create and manage a series of “Electronic score” for the course. | ||
- | Course units offer a flexible way to organize educational material that is stored in the course learning modules in an articulate structure. | ||