| Product Name |
Eduvo School 2.0 |
| Developer Name |
Faria Systems Inc. |
| URL |
http://www.eduvo.com
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| Review Date |
March 23, 2007 |
| Forums |
Eduvo School 2.0 Discussions |
| Reviewer |
Theodore King
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| Communication Tools |
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| Discussion Forum |
- Students can enable or disable posts to be sent to their email.
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| Discussion Management |
- Instructors can allow students to create discussion groups.
- Posts may be peer reviewed by other students.
- Instructors can view statistical summaries of discussions displaying participation which can be used to generate grades.
- Discussions can be shared across courses, departments, or any institutional unit.
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| File Exchange |
- Students can submit assignments using drop boxes.
- Students can share the contents of their personal folders with other students.
- Administrators can define disk space limitations for each user.
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| Internal Email |
- Students can use the built-in email functionality to email individuals or groups.
- Students can use a searchable address book.
- Instructors can email the entire class at once at a single address or alias.
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| Online Journal/Notes |
- Students can attach notes to any page.
- Students can combine their notes with the course content to create a printable study guide.
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| Real-time Chat |
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| Whiteboard |
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| Productivity Tools |
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| Bookmarks |
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| Calendar/Progress Review |
- Instructors and students can post events in the online course calendar.
- Instructors can post announcements to a course announcement page.
- Students have a personal home page that lists all courses in which the student is enrolled, new email and all course and system-wide events from their personal calendar.
- Students can view their grades on completed assignments, total points possible, course grade, and compare their grades against the class performance.
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| Searching Within Course |
- Students can search all course content.
- Students can search all discussion threads.
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| Work Offline/Synchronize |
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| Orientation/Help |
- Students can access context sensitive help for any tool.
- The system includes online tutorials for students that help students learn how to use the system.
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| Student Involvement Tools |
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| Groupwork |
- Instructors can assign students to groups.
- Students can self-select groups.
- Each group can have its own discussion forum.
- Each group can be given group-specific assignments or activities.
- Groups may be private or instructors can monitor groups.
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| Community Networking |
- Students can create online clubs, interest, and study groups at the system level.
- Students from different courses can interact in system-wide chat rooms or discussion forums.
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| Student Portfolios |
- Students can create a personal home page in each course.
- Students can use their personal home page to selectively display their course work.
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| Administration Tools |
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| Authentication |
- The system can support multiple organizational units and virtual hosts within a server configuration.
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| Course Authorization |
- The system supports restricting access based on roles and roles can also be customizedby the service provider.
- Administrators can distribute the permissions and roles across multiple institutions or departments hosted in the server environment.
- Instructors or students may be assigned different roles in different courses.
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| Registration Integration |
- Instructors can add students to their courses manually or allow students to self-register.
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| Hosted Services |
- The product provider offers a hosted solution.
- The product provider offers only a hosted solution.
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| Course Delivery Tools |
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| Test Types |
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| Automated Testing Management |
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| Automated Testing Support |
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| Online Marking Tools |
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| Online Gradebook |
- When an instructor adds an assignment to the course, the software automatically adds it to the gradebook.
- Instructors can add grades for offline assignments.
- Instructors can add details to the gradebook in custom columns.
- Instructors can export the scores in the gradebook to an external spreadsheet.
- Instructors can create a course grading scale that can employ either percents, letter grades, or pass/fail metrics.
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| Course Management |
- Instructors can selectively release assignments, assessments, and announcements based on specific start and stop dates.
- Instructors can set up specific course content that is released on a specific date and must be completed by students before they continue with the course.
- Instructors can link discussions to specific dates or course events.
- Instructors can personalize access to specific course materials based on group membership.
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| Student Tracking |
- Usage statistics can be aggregated across courses or across the institution.
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| Content Development Tools |
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| Accessibility Compliance |
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| Content Sharing/Reuse |
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| Course Templates |
- The system provides course design wizards that provide step-by-step guides that take faculty and course designers through the completion of common course tasks, such as setting up the course homepage, syllabus, organizer pages, content modules, discussion.
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| Customized Look and Feel |
- The system provides default course look and feel templates.
- Instructors can change the navigation icons and color schemes for a course.
- Instructors can change the order and name of menu items for a course.
- Institutions can create their own look and feel templates across the entire system, including their own institutional logos, headers, and footers.
- The system can support multiple institutions, departments, schools or other organizational units on a single installation where each unit can apply its own look and feel templates as well as institutional images, headers and footers.
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| Instructional Design Tools |
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| Instructional Standards Compliance |
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| Hardware/Software |
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| Client Browser Required |
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| Database Requirements |
- The system supports MySQL.
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| UNIX Server |
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| Windows Server |
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| Company Details/Licensing |
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| Company Profile |
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| Costs / Licensing |
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| Open Source |
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| Optional Extras |
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