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 **Compatibility with e-learning standards**: the Open eClass platform is compatible with international standards (SCORM, IMSCP) which ensure the reusability, accessibility and resilience of the educational material to technological changes, as well as interoperability between e-learning systems. **Compatibility with e-learning standards**: the Open eClass platform is compatible with international standards (SCORM, IMSCP) which ensure the reusability, accessibility and resilience of the educational material to technological changes, as well as interoperability between e-learning systems.
  
 +**Creation & Management of Online Courses**. Specifically, the platform supports:
  
 +  *  **distinct ways of accessing courses**: open courses, courses requiring registration, closed courses, inactive courses
  
-Basic platform characteristics are: +  *  **discrete course formats**: simple format, weekly format, module-based course
-  - distinct user roles +
-  - distinct course categories +
-  - easy course creation and use +
-  - structured course presentation  +
-  - stability and reliability +
-  - ease of administration+
  
-==== User Roles ==== +  *  **backups**: ensuring the entire course content in case of accidental deletion or destruction of the course.
-  * The user teacher is responsible for the creation and administration of electronic courses. Teacher accounts are created by the platform administrators, on demand or after an on-line request. They can create an unlimited number of courses, contact student users registered to them, upload educational materials (texts, images, presentations, video, assignments, exercises, etc.), create discussion forums where course participants can interact and generally control the educational process+
  
-  * The user student can register to courses making an open registration, access educational materials, and participate in working groups, discussion forums and exercises. Student accounts can be created either automatically, by allowing open registration of new users, or by the platform administrators themselves after an on-line request.+  * **distinct user roles**: teacher, student, administrator (additional roles: teacher assistant, Group Turor, guest),Reviewer.
  
-  * 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 ==== +==== Management of educational content ====
-  * 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. +  * **Documents**: Organising, storing and presenting course content. 
-Note: There are also inactive courses.+  * **Multimedia**: storage and distribution of audiovisual material. 
 +  * **Blog**: Publishing text posts in chronological order. 
 +  * **Glossary**: Adding and managing key terms . 
 +  * **E-book**: Posting, managing and presenting e-books in HTML format. 
 +  * **Wall**: Reading of multi-content posts (video, documents, multimedia). 
 +  * **Links**: Adding and organizing useful resources from the Internet . 
 +  * **Learning Path**: Organization of educational material into structured modules. Export to SCORM package. 
 +  * **H5P content**: a tool for creating interactive course objects 
 +  * **Mindmap**: Conceptual analysis of course concepts.
  
 +==== Information, communication & cooperation tools ====
 +  * **Announcements**: Posting of course announcements.
 +  * **Calendar**: Chronological presentation of events-stages of the course.
 +  * **Messages**: Exchange of messages between instructors and trainees.
 +  * **Announcments**: Notification of anything new regarding the course.
 +  * **Forum**: Asynchronous exchange of views and ideas.
 +  * **Teleconference**: the ability to communicate and collaborate in real time.
 +  * **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 and learners.
  
-==== Functionality & Features ==== +==== Evaluation & feedback tools ====
-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, each eCourse consists of the following learning tools - components which can be enabled and maintained by the teachers:+
  
-[{{ :en:short_description:short_descr_single_page.jpg?500 |Course Home}}]+  * Exercises: Production of closed-ended exercises (multiple choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank). 
 +  * Assignments: Management, submission and marking of assignments. 
 +  * Questionnaires: Creating polls and surveys. 
 +  * Gradebook: Recording trainee scores. 
 +  * Attendance: Recording trainee attendance/absence. 
 +  * Progress: helps learners to improve their performance and achieve their goals 
 +  * Statistics: User statistics.
  
-  - **Agenda**, presents crucial course events in time order (lectures, meetings, etc) +**E-learning management tools** 
-  - **Documents**, educational materials available to students (documents, presentations, images ,etc) +  
-  - **Announcements**, concerning the course; they can be optionally e-mailed to students +  * Settings: the basic course settings tool (title, description, metadata, format, access, licenses, etc.). 
-  - **Forums**, where students can participate in conversation groups and exchange opinions on various aspects of the course +  * Users: List of registered users, roles, registration and de-registration of users (individual, group or with rules). 
-  - **Groups**, open or closed, consist of users registered to the course (students and teachers) +  * Tools: enable, disable, add external tools (links, tools, LTI, etc.). 
-  - **Links**, on the web to resources relevant to the aspects of the course +  * Learning analytics: Analytical reports on monitoring and achievement of learning objectives.
-  - **Student Assignments**, where students can submit work done in response to assignments set forward by the teacher +
-  - **Self-evaluation Exercises**, created by the teacher, allowing students to practice and test their knowledge +
-  - **Course Description**, presents information about course goals, structure, teachers in charge, etc. +
-  - **Glossary**, space for adding and managing the terms contained in the course. +
-  - **E-Book**, a module for uploading and presenting electronic books in HTML format +
-  - **Multimedia**, where recorded lectures or other multimedia files can be stored and presented to students, either as multimedia files or as external links to multimedia recourses +
-  - **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**, combining real-time on-line conversations, and message exchange +
-  - **Questionnaires**, which can be used for polls and learning profile surveys +
-  - **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.+
  
  
 +[{{ :el:short_description:short_descr_single_page.jpg?500 |E-Course main page}}]
  
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-===== Aims - Benefits ===== 
-The Open eClass project has the following aims: 
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-  * to incorporate new technologies in education activities. 
-  * to utilize existing educational material (notes, presentations, etc.) 
-  * to take constructive advantage of the Internet. 
-  * to be easy to use for both teachers and students. 
-  * to offer a reliable but affordable asynchronous e-learning services. 
-  * to be easy to install and administer, as well as easy to adapt to special or changing requirements. 
-  * to actively developed and supported by the Greek Academic Network GUnet and available without restrictions to everyone.  
  
 ===== Contact ===== ===== Contact =====
 For more information please visit platform’s web portal in: http://www.openeclass.org For more information please visit platform’s web portal in: http://www.openeclass.org