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| Product Name | The Learning Manager Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|
| Developer Name | World Wide Interactive Network |
| URL | The Learning Management Corporation |
| Review Date | October 01, 2004 |
| Forums | The Learning Manager Enterprise Edition 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 |
The software supports a whiteboard. Discuss |
| 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. Administrators can customize existing roles or create new custom roles with specific access privileges to course content and tools. Discuss |
| Registration Integration |
Students can self-register. 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. Instructors can personalize access to specific course materials based on group membership, previous course activity, or student performance. The system also facilitates the management of room bookings. 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. Instructors can search the gradebook to find all students who meet a specific performance criteria, mark, or status such as exam completion. Instructors can attach performance evaluations to learner records. 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. Instructors can export all student tracking data to a .csv file (accepted by Excel). Discuss |
| Automated Testing and Scoring |
Instructors can create true/false, multiple choice, multiple answer, fill-in-the-blank, matching, calculated answer and short answer/essay questions. Questions can contain images, video, other media files. The system can randomize the questions in a test as well as the numbers in numerical or symbolic 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, glossaries and FAQs and resources. Instructors can create new content templates and can clone and modify the default templates. Discuss |
| Curriculum Management |
The system supports course prerequisites and provides a graphic interface for administrators to customize the flow of courses. The system permits the linking of competencies with tests and with courses, and can track skills taught by courses. Discuss |
| Customized Look and Feel |
Institutions can create their own look and feel templates. Instructors can clone and modify existing look and feel templates. Custom tools can be created and quickly added and removed from course or student home pages. Students can customize the colors, font sizes, and layout of the tools within the interface. Discuss |
| Instructional Standards Compliance |
The product provider self-tested the software and reports that it is compliant with SCORM 1.2 (LMS-RTE3). Discuss |
| Instructional Design Tools |
The service provider offers instructional design services to help instructors create their courses. Discuss |
| Content Sharing/Reuse |
The system provides a central content repository where course content files can be stored and accessed by other instructors. Instructors can create links to content files in the central content repository so that changes made to the linked content are automatically displayed in their courses. Discuss |
| Hardware/Software | |
| Client Browser Required |
The software supports Internet Explorer 6+. A Pentium 750 MHz processor with 256 MB of RAM running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, or Windows XP is recommended. Discuss |
| Database Requirements |
The system requires SQL Server 2000 or later. 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 5.0+ and the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 or later. Discuss |
| UNIX Server | |
| Windows Server |
The software is available for Windows 2000 Server SP2, Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, Windows or .NET Server 2003. Suggested hardware recommendations are one or preferably a two-processor 2 GHz or faster CPU with 1 GB of 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. Worldwide Interactive Network Inc. (WIN) located in Tenessee, now designs, develops, supports and markets TLM. 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. The system can also manage room bookings. Discuss |
| Software Version |
The current software version number is 4.0 (Enterprise Edition). Discuss |
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