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| Product Name | The Learning Manager 3.2 |
|---|---|
| Developer Name | World Wide Interactive Network |
| URL | The Learning Management Corporation |
| Review Date | January 01, 1900 |
| Forums | The Learning Manager 3.2 Discussions |
| Reviewer | Email Review Staff |
| Communication Tools | |
| Discussion Forums |
Discussions can be viewed by date, by thread and by title. Posts can include attachments and URLs. Discuss |
| File Exchange | |
| Internal Email |
Students must have an external Internet email address. Students can use the Internal email feature to email individuals and groups. Discuss |
| Online Journal/Notes |
Students can make notes for all their courses in one private journal. Discuss |
| Real-time Chat |
The chat tool supports private messages. Discuss |
| Video Services | |
| Whiteboard | |
| Productivity Tools | |
| Bookmarks | |
| Orientation/Help |
The system includes an online student guide. Students can access the help desk by email or phone, if their organization purchased this level of support. Discuss |
| Searching Within Course | |
| Calendar/Progress Review |
Students can view their completed and pending course readings and activities. Students can view their grades. Discuss |
| Work Offline/Synchronize | |
| Student Involvement Tools | |
| Groupwork |
Instructors can create groups. Each group can have its own assignments and assigned group leadership. Discuss |
| Self-assessment |
Instructors can create self-assessments. The system can display instructor-created feedback. Discuss |
| Student Community Building | |
| Student Portfolios | |
| Administration Tools | |
| Authentication |
Administrators can protect access to individual courses with a username and password. Discuss |
| Course Authorization |
Instructors can assign different levels of access to their course based on the following pre-defined roles: designers, teaching assistants, and students. Discuss |
| Registration Integration |
Instructors can batch add students to a course using a delimited text file. Discuss |
| Hosted Services | |
| Course Delivery Tools | |
| Course Management |
Instructors can design courses for instructor facilitated learning or system managed self-study. Discuss |
| Instructor Helpdesk |
Instructors can access the online instructor manual and a description of best practices, contact the technical support helpdesk by email and phone and subscribe to an instructor mailing list. Instructors can also contribute to a list of best practices. Discuss |
| Online Grading Tools |
Instructors can mark exams online. Discuss |
| Student Tracking |
Instructors can get reports showing the number of times and time and date on which each student or all students in a course as an aggregated group, accessed course content. Instructors can get a report that shows number of attempts and time per attempt on each assessment for individual students. Discuss |
| Automated Testing and Scoring |
Instructors can create true/false, multiple choice, multiple answer, fill-in-the-blank, matching, and short answer/essay questions. Instructors can create unit-specific tests or course-level tests. Instructors can set a time limit on a test. Instructors can create different levels of feedback messages. Instructors can associate test items with outcomes or objectives and the system can dynamically assemble a test based on the outcome or objective to be evaluated. Discuss |
| Curriculum Design | |
| Accessibility Compliance | |
| Course Templates |
Instructors can use templates to create announcements, course content, and FAQs and resources. Instructors can create new content templates and can clone and modify the default templates. Discuss |
| Curriculum Management | |
| Customized Look and Feel |
Institutions can create their own look and feel templates. Instructors can clone and modify existing look and feel templates. Discuss |
| Instructional Standards Compliance |
The product provider self-tested the software and reports that it is compliant with IMS and AICC content standards. Discuss |
| Instructional Design Tools |
The service provider offers instructional design services to help instructors create their courses. Discuss |
| Content Sharing/Reuse | |
| Hardware/Software | |
| Client Browser Required |
For PCs, the software supports Internet Explorer 5.5+ and Netscape 6.1+ and for Macintosh OS9, the software supports Internet Explorer 5.0+ and Netscape 6.1+. Discuss |
| Database Requirements |
The system requires Microsoft Access database. For larger sites a SQL Server (versions 6.5 or 7.0) or Oracle (versions 7.3 or 8i-8.1.7) database should be used to replace the default Access database. The database can reside on the same server as the software or can be on a separate server. Discuss |
| Server Software |
The software requires Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 or higher. Discuss |
| UNIX Server | |
| Windows Server |
The software is available for Windows 2000 Server SP2, Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6, Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2, or Windows XP Professional. Suggested hardware recommendations are one or two Pentium class servers,700 Mhz, 256 MB RAM. The product provider recommends that the course management system is installed on a dedicated server. Discuss |
| Pricing/Licensing | |
| Company Profile |
Originally developed at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, the software and its support were later spun off into a separate company called The Learning Management Corporation, formerly Synectic Learning Systems. TLM has a strategic partnership with Worldwide Interactive Network Inc. (WIN) a courseware development and marketing company located in the US. Discuss |
| Costs |
The software license is priced based on the number of students in an institution. The software is licensed on an annual or perpetual basis. Technical support is provided as part of the license fee. Discuss |
| Open Source | |
| Optional Extras |
Annual licenses include Web-based training materials, newsletter, and use of a discussion list. Discuss |
| Software Version |
The current software version number is 3.2 (Enterprise Edition). Discuss |
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