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| Product Name | CentraOne 6.0 |
|---|---|
| Developer Name | Centra |
| URL | CentraOne 6.0 |
| Review Date | January 01, 1900 |
| Forums | CentraOne 6.0 Discussions |
| Reviewer | Email Review Staff |
| Communication Tools | |
| Discussion Forums | |
| File Exchange | |
| Internal Email | |
| Online Journal/Notes | |
| Real-time Chat |
The chat tool supports private messages. Instructors may moderate chats. Discuss |
| Video Services |
The video conferencing tool enables students to see the instructor or other designated participants in a chat session. The software pre-caches content prior to the start of a synchronous session to reduce bandwidth demands. Discuss |
| Whiteboard |
The software supports a whiteboard. The software can archive a recording of whiteboard sessions for future viewing. The software includes support for application and remote desktop sharing. The software supports group web browsing. The software includes support for multi-party, full duplex voice chat. Instructors can moderate voice chats. Discuss |
| Productivity Tools | |
| Bookmarks | |
| Orientation/Help | |
| Searching Within Course |
Students can search all session recordings in their course. Discuss |
| Calendar/Progress Review | |
| Work Offline/Synchronize |
Instructors can record synchronous sessions so that students can review them asynchronously at a later time. These recordings can be available in standard web media formats. Discuss |
| Student Involvement Tools | |
| Groupwork |
Instructors can assign students to groups. Instructors can monitor groups. Discuss |
| Self-assessment | |
| Student Community Building | |
| Student Portfolios | |
| Administration Tools | |
| Authentication |
User logins can be encrypted with SSL. The system has a password reminder option. Passwords stored in the system database are encrypted. Discuss |
| Course Authorization | |
| Registration Integration |
Administrators can batch add students to a course using a delimited text file or students can self-register. Discuss |
| Hosted Services |
The product provider offers a hosted system that include 24x7x365 monitoring, and service level agreements on a network of high-performance, fault-tolerant servers with fail-over capability. Discuss |
| Course Delivery Tools | |
| Course Management | |
| Instructor Helpdesk | |
| Online Grading Tools | |
| Student Tracking |
Instructors can get reports showing the number of times each student accessed course assessments and discussion forums. Instructors can set up custom reports. Discuss |
| Automated Testing and Scoring |
Instructors can create automatically scored multiple choice questions. Discuss |
| Curriculum Design | |
| Accessibility Compliance | |
| Course Templates |
Instructors can use templates to create agendas, course content and multimedia content. Discuss |
| Curriculum Management |
Instructors can map specific learning objects to individual training needs. There is a competency management tool that allows instructors to perform skills gap analyses. Instructors can specify multiple paths through a course for different skill levels or job functions. Discuss |
| Customized Look and Feel | |
| Instructional Standards Compliance |
The product provider self-tested the software and reports that it is conformant with AICC AGR-010 (Web-based CMI Systems). The product provider self-tested the software and reports that it is compliant with SCORM 1.1 and1.2 and Microsoft LRN 2.0. Discuss |
| Instructional Design Tools | |
| Content Sharing/Reuse | |
| Hardware/Software | |
| Client Browser Required |
The software supports Internet Explorer 4.01+, Netscape 4.08+. Discuss |
| Database Requirements |
The system requires either a MySQL database or an Oracle database. Discuss |
| Server Software |
Optional software recommended includes an IP multicast infrastructure to support conferences when there is a need to reduce bandwidth utilization across a wide area network. Discuss |
| UNIX Server | |
| Windows Server |
The software is available for Windows NT 4.0 SP 4+, or Windows 2000. Suggested hardware recommendations are one Pentium III, 500 MHz, 512K cache, 256 MB RAM and 10+ GB disk space. Discuss |
| Pricing/Licensing | |
| Company Profile |
Centra is located in Boston and shipped its first product in 1997. It is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ as CTRA. Discuss |
| Costs | |
| Open Source | |
| Optional Extras |
The CentraOne platform includes the Collaboration server and Knowledge Server. The Collaboration server can be reached with any of 3 different front-ends (Symposium, Conference or eMeeting) but provides the same underlying synchronous features in all. The knowledge server permits the authoring, serving and searching of learning objects, both document-type and rich media pre-recorded presentations. The software's API Toolkit provides integration with many Learning Management Systems. System supports internationalization in 12 languages. Elements of the entire CentraOne platform, add-on modules, and applications can be licensed separately, or together as a complete environment. Discuss |
| Software Version |
The current software version number is 6.0. Discuss |
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