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| Product Name | eTEA Learning Management System |
|---|---|
| Developer Name | Tec-Masters |
| URL | www.etealms.com |
| Review Date | June 19, 2008 |
| Forums | eTEA Learning Management System Discussions |
| Reviewer | Email Review Staff |
| Communication Tools | |
| Discussion Forum |
Discussion threads are expandable and collapsible to view an entire conversation on one screen. Administrators can enable or disable anonymous postings. Discussion topics can be tied to learning activities. Forum access can be limited to course. Instructor can enable or disable threads. Instructor can create any number of threads. A spell-checker is available for student and instructor responses. Discuss |
| Discussion Management |
Instructors can create new discussion threads or all new posts within any discussion topic.Posts may be peer reviewed by other students.Discussions can be shared across courses Discuss |
| 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.All users can use a private folder into which they can upload and download files. Discuss |
| Internal Email |
Students can use the built-in email functionality to email individuals . Students can use a searchable address book. Instructors can email the entire class at once at a single address or alias. The internal email system supports archiving, searching and attachments. Students can spell check outgoing messages. Storage quotas can be defined individually for each role in the system. Discuss |
| Online Journal/Notes |
Students can attach notes. Journal discussion type provides a way for students to share notes and thoughts with the instructor and or other students. In journals that are not private other students may leave comments Discuss |
| Real-time Chat |
The chat tool supports unlimited simultaneous group discussions. Students can see who else is online across the entire system. The chat tool supports a structured way for students to ask questions and instructors to provide answers. The system creates archive logs for all chat sessions. Discuss |
| Whiteboard |
Reviewer Comments Whiteboard is available on Tec-Masters, Inc. eTEA LMS Enterprise V1 Learning Management System. Discuss |
| Productivity Tools | |
| Bookmarks |
Bookmark are automatically created in SCORM courses. 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. Calendar entries can be linked to activities. Events can be repeating. Institutional calendar events and announcements can be added as well. Discuss |
| Searching Within Course |
Students can search all course content. Students can search all discussion threads. Students can search all assignments, course content, discussion threads, and email messages in their course. Students can constrain a search using filters. Search of content includes the content of many common file formats such as HTML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF. Discuss |
| Work Offline/Synchronize |
Discuss |
| 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. The system includes an online guides. Users can access context sensitive help for each of the major tools. Help items are further customizable by the institution. Users can use keywords to search a guide and other help documentation made available by the organization. Discuss |
| Student Involvement Tools | |
| Groupwork |
Instructors can assign students to groups. Each group can be given group-specific assignments or activities. Discuss |
| Community Networking |
Users from different courses can interact in system-wide chat or discussion forums. Users can shared chat space, calendar and announcements within the course. Discuss |
| Student Portfolios |
Students can use their personal home page to selectively display their course work. Discuss |
| Administration Tools | |
| Authentication |
Single Sign On option is supported. Administrators can set up authentication in the system's own database. The system has a password reminder option and students can maintain their own passwords. Administrators can set password length restrictions and require password changes after the initial logon and after a specified period of time. User logins can be encrypted with the Secure Sockets Layer protocol. Discuss |
| Course Authorization |
The system supports restricting access based on roles and roles can also be customized by the service provider. Administrators can distribute the permissions and roles across multiple courses hosted in the server environment. Instructors or students may be assigned different roles in different courses. Discuss |
| Registration Integration |
Students allowed to self-register. Administrators can batch add students and instructors to the system using a excel sheet. The software supports data interchange with student information systems through an event-driven API. Discuss |
| Hosted Services |
The product provider offers a hosted solution. The product provider offers mail support and 24 x 7 telephone support. Discuss |
| Course Delivery Tools | |
| Test Types |
Discuss |
| Automated Testing Management |
Instructor can create test with level of difficulty. Discuss |
| Automated Testing Support |
Questions can be imported from external test banks such as Aiken format and Gift format. There is a consolidated question library for quizzes, surveys and self assessments. Test questions can incorporate images. Discuss |
| Online Marking Tools |
Discuss |
| Online Gradebook |
Users can grade assignments, essay type quizzes/exams online and provide feedback. Grades from quizzes and assignments can be updated in Gradebook tool automatically. Gradebook tool is useful for basic statistical analysis and final grade calculation. The software automatically calculates the minimum, maximum, and average grade on any grade items including assignments and quizzes. Many grade items and categories can be selected and edited at once. Grade items can be tied to learning objectives. Learning activities are evaluated based on numeric values for those items and compared to achievement threseholds defined by the instructor. Discuss |
| Course Management |
Instructors can set up specific course content that is released on a specific date. Instructor can deactivate and categorized the courses.Instructor can prepare syllabus,approve and upload content to that syllabus. Discuss |
| Student Tracking |
Reviewer Comments 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, and frequency of each student who accessed course content and assignments. Discuss |
| Content Development Tools | |
| Accessibility Compliance |
Discuss |
| Content Sharing/Reuse |
Discuss |
| Course Templates |
Instructors can upload and choose content from library. Discuss |
| Customized Look and Feel |
The system provide support to change its own look and feel templates as well as institutional images. Discuss |
| Instructional Design Tools |
Discuss |
| Instructional Standards Compliance |
Discuss |
| Hardware/Software | |
| Client Browser Required |
Reviewer Comments IE 6.0, Firefox Discuss |
| Database Requirements |
Discuss |
| UNIX Server |
Discuss |
| Windows Server |
Discuss |
| Company Details/Licensing | |
| Company Profile |
Reviewer Comments Tec-Masters, Inc. (TMI) is a Huntsville, Alabama based minority owned small business, ISO 9001:2000 Certified, CMMI Level II Certified, and has a large well-established contract base of $70 Million in annual revenues. A majority of these revenues come from hardware and software development; integration, testing, manufacturing, training, simulation, and instrumentation. TMI is privately owned and financially strong debt-free company. Tec-Masters’ 250 employees occupy over 98,000 square feet of office and production facilities. All TMI facilities are fully integrated with state-of-the-art communications, computers, and high-speed networks. At all facilities, TMI is equipped with secure telecommunications capabilities as well as fax, email and robust web-based exchanges. Additionally, TMI maintains in Huntsville a modern 500 square foot Video Teleconference (VTC) facility and a 2600-square foot multimedia conference room with seating for close to 100 people. One of our core product is our eTEA Learning Management Systems(eTEA LMS) and eTEA Institute Administration Systems (eTEA LMS).Our work has spanned a range of activities, from strategy consulting, business analysis and system integration services that develops for some of the most sophisticated software development in the world. At TMI, we employ an integrated on-site methodology to rapidly deliver top quality, cost-effective IT solutions. We can accelerate delivery time by offering a 24-hour per day, 7-day per week service. Over the years, we have perfected the processes, methodologies and infrastructure needed to overcome the challenges of operating with a project team that spans continents. Discuss |
| Costs / Licensing |
Reviewer Comments The product is a License system. Discuss |
| Open Source |
Discuss |
| Optional Extras |
Reviewer Comments It can be integrated with exchange server for external e-mails. It can also be integrated with third party Whiteboard for synchronized learning. Apart from these features Knowledge Framework can be integrated with IAS (institute admistration system) with enables the institute to manage all administration and academic activities under the same application with the following additional features : College Profile, Staff Profile, Student Profile, Course Profile, Attendance, Fees Management, Examination, Utility, Report, Scheduling Management, Smartbooks - Ent Ver, Library Management, Academic, Customize Reports, StudentLive, FacultyLive, ParentsLive, Collaboration Tool, Email, Chat, Discussion forum, Bulk Data Import Discuss |