| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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