| Category |
Details |
Requirements |
Yes / No |
| Cost |
Initial Set up Cost (Purchase Price and Server Requirements) |
less than $2 500 |
yes |
| Yearly Maintenance Cost |
less than $2 000 |
yes |
| Yearly Training |
less than $2 500 |
yes |
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| Students & Parents |
Increase interaction between Students |
LMS supports e-mail, asynchronous discussions, wikis, chat |
yes |
| Increase interactions between Students and Teachers |
LMS supports e-mail, private chat feature, uploading of work with teacher comments |
yes |
| Allows Parents to be Informed of Child’s progress |
allows parents to log in from any computer with internet access |
yes |
| Single Log in |
Students use one log-in and have access to all of their courses |
yes |
| Able to submit assignments online |
allows online submissions, and viewing of graded assignments |
yes |
| feedback mechanisms to allow student tracking of own activity, progress through course components, checking grades |
participant profiles, user logs, grade viewing |
yes |
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| Teachers |
Able to Edit courses |
teachers can add new resources and edit existing ones |
yes |
| Available Training |
Training online and also internal (through division) |
yes |
| Access from work and home |
location flexibility |
yes |
| Gradebook feature |
gradebook with editable weightings and comments |
yes |
| Quizes |
online quizes including MC, numerical response, matching, essay. Quizes can be timed, automatically graded and can be set up to provide feedback |
yes |
| tracking student profiles |
user activity reports (when logged on, for how long and from what ip address) |
yes |
| Grouping ability |
Teachers may have 2 different groups working through the same course – can allow groups to be visible or invisible to each other |
yes |
| handles various delivery options |
handles delivery of mixed mode and fully online courses as well as communities of practice and collaborative work sites |
yes |
| can provide guest access |
supports guest speakers, or restricted guest login |
yes |
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| IT |
Userfriendly |
has help features available |
yes |
| Variable broadband accommodations |
Available on High Speed and Dial-up Connections |
yes |
| Long-Term Stability of the product/company |
Company appears stable and long term (other major educational institutions are using this product) |
yes |
| saleable and robust |
saleable and robust, compliant with industry standards, i.e., SCORM & IMS |
yes |
| can interface with 3rd-Party modules / programs |
IT has control over addition of 3rd party programs |
yes |
| allows exporting of reporting results, i.e., grades, activity logs, etc. |
can talk with our current student information system |
yes |
| Backup ability |
Automatic (Scheduled) Backups with versioning |
yes |
| Secure |
passwords, Forms are all checked, data validated, cookies encrypted etc |
yes |