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 ==== Information, communication & cooperation tools ==== ==== Information, communication & cooperation tools ====
-  * Announcements: Posting of course announcements. +  * **Announcements**: Posting of course announcements. 
-  * Calendar: Chronological presentation of events-stages of the course. +  * **Calendar**: Chronological presentation of events-stages of the course. 
-  * Messages: Exchange of messages between instructors and trainees. +  * **Messages**: Exchange of messages between instructors and trainees. 
-  * Notifications: Notification of anything new regarding the course. +  * **Announcments**: Notification of anything new regarding the course. 
-  * Discussions: Asynchronous exchange of views and ideas. +  * **Forum**: Asynchronous exchange of views and ideas. 
-  * Telecollaboration: the ability to communicate and collaborate in real time. +  * **Teleconference**: the ability to communicate and collaborate in real time. 
-  * User groups: Grouping users to have a common discussion area and file upload area. +  * **Groups**: Grouping users to have a common discussion area and file upload area. 
-  * Wiki: Collaborative authoring. +  *** Wiki**: Collaborative authoring. 
-  * Chat: Real-time communication by text message, between instructors and learners.+  * **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