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E-learning

We at ArchimedESS support equally both the most used platforms for building-up fully featured distant learning WEB applications - Microsoft Corp. SharePoint LMS for enterprise solutions and open source Joomla LMS for small to medium customers.

Microsoft SharePointLMS

All-in-one Learning Management System

The time has arrived for a new learning experience which is packed with advanced and intuitive features, yet is easy to use for both Teachers and Students. Using SharePointLMS creates a familiar Microsoft environment where Teachers and Students feel at ease. Based on the powerful and highly secure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform and integrated with Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007, our Learning Management System gives customers an opportunity for effective learning and quick assessments.

Learning with SharePointLMS

SharePointLMS is a unique product for e-learning and is the result of years of pedagogic experience and our developers’ research and innovative development.When investing in SharePointLMS you get a total toolkit. Using these tools the teacher can easily:

• organise
• produce
• manage
• implement
• and evaluate e-learning

The student on the other hand develops his/her competences through intelligent and tested solutions that are pedagogic based on the deployment of well-known learning styles.

Another very important part of the overall plan was to develop a Learning Platform that would have an alluring price tag. SharePointLMS combines the most popular tools that make it a single and affordable turnkey application. With our auto-install and built-in authoring tools, SharePointLMS training can be started within days.

Advantages:

• HTML or Scripting knowledge is not required
• Import of third-party SCORM or AICC compliant course materials
• Production of Rapid E-learning using our Authoring Tools created for non-technical staff
• Deployment of courses and training modules from well-known suppliers
• Built-in course / exam authoring tool supporting over 30 file types
• Language selection for the user interface - Through the use of resource files (.resx) you can easily convert SharePointLMS to any language of your choice for true Global e-learning.
• Use AD (Active Directories) for user administration
• Easily integrate with the Microsoft Office and MS Office SharePoint
• Collaboration and group-based training
• SharePoint Learner Management System with all its features and the great integration capabilities guarantees to bring you a revolutionary e-learning experience.

Joomla LMS

JoomlaLMS is an aggregate of e-learning tools compiling into a powerful learning management system. It is a fully functional eLearning platform with innovative training / testing options (self-assessments) and advanced conferencing applications. JoomlaLMS provides powerful and popular e-learning features:

• General System Features: JoomlaLMS has a multi-language user interface and provides a convenient publishing mechanism as well as an opportunity to configure LMS front page and edit Graphic User Interface. You can purchase it branding free and enjoy such features as SCORM compliance (1.2 and 2004), W3C WAI accessibility and Search Engine Friendly URLs (SEF plugins are developed for ArtioSef, sh404Sef and native Joomla Sef).
• eCommerce: Different types of subscriptions to courses can be sold for the price that administrator sets and can be purchased with different payments methods.
•  User Management: Various user roles (Teacher, Learner, CEO/parent, LMS administrator) and profiles can be customized and new roles created. Users can be imported/exported and they also have a possibility of self-registration and self-enrollment. Users can be approved and enrolled manually by administrator.
• General Course Features: Courses in JoomlaLMS can be filtered by category, imported/exported and saved as course templates for further use. Courses catalogue is searchable, modes Teacher/Student can be toggled for teachers, access level and course completion criteria can be configured. It is possible to create waiting lists and certificates for courses as well as set course availability period and maximum course attendees' number.
• Course Materials: Documents in different formats (including various multimedia formats) as well as .zip content packages can be uploaded and managed. Storing documents in File Library provides an excellent opportunity to share documents for different courses. Creating Learning Paths from course elements is simple and effective, chapter structure as well as documents structure is hierarchical and setting prerequisites together with the possibility to resume from last attempt allows to ensure the logical system of studies.
•  Quizzes: Teachers can create quizzes as well as surveys and fill them with questions of 14 different types that can be created or taken from the question pool (questions from the Global Question Pool are available for all the courses). Feedback can be configured to help learners see their mistakes. Teachers can view quiz statistics and add media files to questions to make them more vivid. Number of attempts for each quiz can be set and learners can view and resume the attempts. Quiz result reports can be created and printed/e-mailed to the learner's/author's e-mail.
• Communication Tools: Forums and chats can be added to courses. Learners and teachers can exchange messages using embedded e-mail or the Dropbox tool that allows to exchange files without using e-mail. Announcements can be sent to learners and shown on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Live conference is a convenient feature for providing online communication between teacher and learners with the possibility to use virtual whiteboard, webcam, microphone etc.
• Learners Performance Management: Teachers and CEO/parents can track learners' performance, grades, activity and learning materials usage statistics to make sure of the progress learners are making. It is possible to configure custom grading/assessment scales and items to be graded/assessed. Homework can be assigned and checked by teachers.
  Reporting: Access Report contains a table of all the courses with numbers of visits by learners. Completion Report contains course completion information for all the courses and learners. User Grades Report allows to track selected user's progress in all their courses. Different criteria for reports generation and filtering can be configured.
  
  For the education and non-profit initiatives and institutions, we equially support Moodle open soutce e-learning platform, as an alternative to the paid license systems.