Virtual Campus

Features:

• Typically, a teacher has full control over all settings for a course.
  • This can include assigning other teachers roles with less privileges
• Choice of Course formats settings such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focused social format
• Individual Course_settings
• Force_theme and layout can be created for any course.
• Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops
• Groups - teacher(s) and students can be placed in one or more groups
• Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the course home page - helps give sense of community
• Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
• All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file) in a Gradebook.
• Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings etc on one page.
• Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text. Users can set a preference for daily emails in their profile.
• Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments
• Courses can be packaged as a single zip file using the Backup function.
• Specific course activities and resources can be imported from another existing course