Personalized Learning for Students

• Author/Create: Students create text, multimedia content, and embed Web 2.0 content in their assignments, assessments and discussions.
• Projects: All users, including students, can create projects around courses, topics, etc. and invite other users to join and participate. Rubric-based and traditional grading.
• Individual Learning Plan: A learner’s behavioral, social and academic objectives brought together for action, reflection and feedback.
• Progress Reporting: Students can always see their progress against assignments, projects and their Individual Learning Plan, as can their parents, teachers and mentor.
• Mentoring programs: Volunteers from the community recruited, trained and supervised students following it’s learning’s program guidelines to support individual students through their Individual Learning Plans.
• Planner: A tool for teachers or school administrators to design courses and integrate high quality materials into course structures. Supports branching to provide remedial and advanced material to appropriate students.
• Accessible course structure: Students can always see where they are in the context of their course of study.
• ePortfolio: A collection of private and assessment portfolios for reflective learning.
• Design: Students and instructors select from a range of “skins” to choose their own look and feel for their ePortfolio.
• Working Portfolio: Students collect and organize all of their work.
• Assessment Portfolio: Student work collected and retained for later reference; user controlled access for parents, mentors and others.
• Progress Reports: Students provided with clear reports about their progress against expectations.
• Homepage: All users can create their own personal web pages.
• Blog: Students create a personal learning blog: an ongoing commentary and discussion among readers to further their learning process.
• About Me: Students can create their online identity and profile.
• Personal Dashboard: All system users create customized dashboards including all of the information they need on a regular basis. Supports the easy integration of Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds and other Web 2.0 applications.

Reports

It’s learning provides real-time data reporting for the following standard reports

• Attendance in a variety of timelines by student, by class
• Online Usage and activities by student by class
• Work Completion Reporting by student by class
• Student Progress – personal and class roll up summaries
• Discussion participation by student by class
• Assignment Submission Tracking Performance by student, by class
• Assignment outcomes by student, by class
• Assessment Outcomes (Grade Book) by student, by class
• Test Performance Analysis by class
• Question Statistics on Tests by question by class
• Individual Test Results with instructor feedback and question summaries for each test submission
• Plagiarism reports by assignment complete with a source comparison and percentage ranking by assignment

Additionally, the system supplies spreadsheets showing individual learning and curriculum plans with integrated learning outcomes presented which tie directly to supporting learning elements.

Innovative Content Flexibility

• Multimedia Rich Lessons: Easily create lessons with images, audio and video elements that you can share with other educators.
• Web 2.0: Use Google, YouTube, Google Maps, Flickr, Delicious, Meebo rooms, Springwidget RSS, Slideshare, TeacherTube, SchoolTube, Odeo, VideoJug, SchoolTV and many more Web 2.0 applications easily from within it’s learning.
• Formula Editor: Powerful equation editor from WebEq.
• Bulletin Board: Provides news and messages in your course, in your school, or across your organization.
• Join Any Course Anywhere: (AICC) Connect to external AICC courses including other Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) from around the world or invite others into your course.
• SCORM 1.2 and 2004 Support: International standards for content; allows course exporting and importing.
• Integrate Publisher Content: it’s learning has relationships with a variety of publishers through its Diglib integration so that you can use licensed digital content seamlessly with teacher-created and open source materials.
• Content Partners: Available free and commercial content from a range of vendors.
• Advanced Search and File Management: Search by keyword for content. Upload and transfer files; view all available file types; make files available for specific courses.
• Course Archive: Archive old courses for later reuse or access.