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Product Name	JUSUR
Developer Name	Saudi Arabia National Center for E-learning and Distance Learning
URL	www.elc.edu.sa
Review Date	May 21, 2008
Forums	JUSUR Discussions
Reviewer	Email Review Staff
Discussion Forum	Students can enable or disable posts to be sent to their email. Students can subscribe to forum RSS feeds. Reviewer Comments Discussions can be viewed by date, thread, author, title, unanswered messages and popular discussion topic. Discussion threads are continuously composed in a single thread. Discussion threads can be searched. Posts can contain URLs, file attachments and may contain HTML. The discussion software includes a formatting text editor which can create mathematic equations. Discuss
Discussion Management	Instructors can set up moderated discussions where all posts are screened. 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. Reviewer Comments Instructor can also control the forum start date and end date. Once the end date is reached the forum will be automatically locked from new postings.Instructors may create separate discussion environments for small groups of students and teaching assistants. Discuss
File Exchange	Students can submit assignments using drop boxes. Students can share the contents of their personal folders with other students. Reviewer Comments Students have a private folder into which they can upload and download files. Students can upload files to a shared group folder. Students can submit assignments using drop boxes. Instructors can upload files to the personal folder of a student. Discuss
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. Discuss
Online Journal/Notes	Discuss
Real-time Chat	The chat tool supports a limited number of simultaneous rooms. Students can create new rooms. Instructors may moderate chats and suspend students from the chat rooms. The system creates archive logs for all chat rooms. Discuss
Whiteboard	Discuss
Productivity Tools
Bookmarks	Discuss
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. Discuss
Searching Within Course	Students can search all discussion threads. Reviewer Comments There's also a Search engine that search across all databases and applications in Knowledge Menagement portal and LMS. Discuss
Work Offline/Synchronize	Students can compile and download the content for an entire course into a format that can be printed or stored locally. Instructors can publish course content on a CD-ROM that can be linked to dynamically from within the online course or viewed offline. Discuss
Orientation/Help	The system includes online tutorials for students that help students learn how to use the system. Reviewer Comments An Online Helpdek is also integrated with LMS to enable users to seek help from dedicated assigned personnel. Discuss
Student Involvement Tools
Groupwork	Instructors can assign students to groups. Students can self-select groups. Each group can have its own discussion forum. Each group can have its own chat or whiteboard. Each group can be given group-specific assignments or activities. Groups may be private or instructors can monitor groups. Discuss
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. Discuss
Student Portfolios	Students can use their personal home page to selectively display their course work. Discuss
Administration Tools
Authentication	Administrators can allow guest access to all courses. The system can authenticate against an external LDAP server. Administrators can set up fail-through authentication against a secondary source (e.g. the system's own database) in the event that the primary source (e.g. LDAP server ) fails. Discuss
Course Authorization	The system supports restricting access based on roles and roles can also be customizedby the service provider. Instructors or students may be assigned different roles in different courses. Discuss
Registration Integration	Instructors can add students to their courses manually or allow students to self-register. Administrators can batch add students to the system using a delimited text file. Administrators can transfer student information bidirectionally between the system and an SIS using delimited text files. Discuss
Hosted Services	The product provider offers a hosted solution. Reviewer Comments The product provider offers a hosted system that includes 99.75% Service Level Agreements with guaranteed system availability and performance on a network of high-performance, fault-tolerant servers with fail-over capability including load balancing and clustering, managed software installation, redundant Internet connections, redundant and conditioned power, redundant hosting platforms, 24x7x365 monitoring, 10GB – 20GB storage space to start, managed bandwidth usage, redundant T3 connections, daily data backups and weekly tape backups, and a secure facility with environmental control and a modern alarm/security system. Discuss
Course Delivery Tools
Test Types	Multiple choice Multiple answer Ordering Fill-in the blank Survey questions Essay Discuss
Automated Testing Management	The system can randomize the questions and answers. Instructors can create self-assessments. Instructors can set a time limit on a test. Instructors can permit multiple attempts. The students are allowed to review past attempts of a quiz. The system supports a MathML editor for the inclusion of mathematical formulas in both questions and answers. Instructors can specify whether correct results are shown as feedback Reviewer Comments Instructors can create different levels of feedback messages. Instructors can import questions from existing test banks. Instructors can set dates and times for when students must access tests. Instructors can use passwords to restrict access to tests. Instructors can use WebEQ equation editors to enable students to enter and edit mathematical notations. Instructors can create unit-specific tests or course-level tests. Instructors can provide personalized comments for essay/short answer questions, and can add comments to assessment results. Instructors can create extra-credit questions that can be scored separately. Instructors can differentially weight tests and create grading rules. Discuss
Automated Testing Support	Instructors can create personal test banks. Instructors can create system wide test banks. Reviewer Comments Instructors can create question pools, an export and import those pools. The system provides analysis data for surveys and test item results can be exported for analysis. Discuss
Online Marking Tools	Instructors can choose to mark each student on all questions or to mark each question on all students. Reviewer Comments Instructors, and teaching assistants can mark paragraph questions, and mark and return assignments turned in through the assignment dropbox. Instructors can provide feedback on all assignments through annotations. Instructors can publish student submissions as examples for other students to see. Discuss
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. Discuss
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. Discuss
Student Tracking	Instructors can track the frequency and duration of student access to individual course components. Instructors can get reports showing the time and date and frequency students as an aggregated group accessed course content. Instructors can get reports showing the number of times, time, date, frequency and IP address of each student who accessed course content, discussion forums, course assessments, and assignments. Instructors can review the navigation record of each student. Usage statistics can be aggregated across courses or across the institution. Discuss
Content Development Tools
Accessibility Compliance	Discuss
Content Sharing/Reuse	Instructors can share content with other instructors and students through a central learning objects repository. The repository can be system-wide or for individual organizational units. Tools are available to enable version tracking and linking to specific versions as well as the creation and management of workflows for collaborative content creation and review. Discuss
Course Templates	The software provides support for template-based course creation. The system allows administrators to use an existing course or a pre-defined template as a basis for a new course. Discuss
Customized Look and Feel	The system provides default course look and feel templates. 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. Discuss
Instructional Design Tools	Instructors can organize learning objects, course tools, and content into learning sequences that are reusable. Instructors can create linear learning sequences organized hierarchically by course, lesson, and topic. Instructors can reuse courses as templates for future lessons. Discuss
Instructional Standards Compliance	SCORM 1.2 SCORM 1.3 Discuss
Hardware/Software
Client Browser Required	Reviewer Comments For the Windows 2000 operating system, the following browsers are compatible: IE 6.0, Netscape 7.1 and 8.0, and Firefox 1.0. For Windows XP, the following browsers are compatible: IE 6.0 and 7.0, Netscape 7.1 and 8.0, and Firefox 1.0. For Mac OS 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4, compatible browsers include: IE 5.2, Netscape 7.1, Firefox 1.0, Safari 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. A full browser matrix is available. Discuss
Database Requirements	The system supports MySQL. Discuss
UNIX Server	A Unix version is available. Discuss
Windows Server	A Windows version is available. Discuss
Company Details/Licensing
Company Profile	Discuss
Costs / Licensing	Discuss
Open Source	Discuss
Optional Extras	Discuss

Reference Citation: EduTools. (2010). CMS: Product Comparison System. Retrieved September 08, 2010 from http://www.edutools.org/compare.jsp?pj=4&i=608