Elearningforce International is proud to announce it is the first Microsoft Partner that has successfully integrated Live@EDU web parts into SharePoint and SharePointLMS using Single Sign On.
From your institution's SharePoint portal you can now use your Live@EDU services such as Outlook Live Email, SkyDrive and Office Live Workspace inside SharePoint and SharePointLMS without the need to re-autenticate yourself again and again!
Harvard selects SharePointLMS as their new LMS
Monday, 12 October 2009
The Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS) has chosen SharePointLMS as their new LMS platform to deliver their courses and training modules to their students online. SharePointLMS has been developed to run on the highly successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server which has generated over $1 billion in revenue last year and continues to rise past that total this year.
HKS has signed an agreement with ElearningForce, the developers of SharePointLMS to deliver the LMS software as well as to develop custom software to complement the LMS. The agreement will last for a minimum period of 5 years and will provide HKS with the LMS Software as well as the ElearningForce suite of Rapid Authoring Tools for Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
ElearningForce President for North America, Mr. Paul Andringa, said: “We are extremely excited to have signed this agreement with the prestigious Harvard Kennedy School of Government and believe that it will be mutually beneficial for both our organizations and the future development and direction of SharePointLMS. Having such close cooperation with HKS will benefit not only HKS and ElearningForce but in that respect all other Education establishments using SharePoint.
The Associate Dean and Chief Information Officer at HKS, Don Oppenheimer, said, “We are
looking forward to working with ElearningForce to develop a new courseware platform to support the teaching and learning in our classrooms.”
ePortfolio for SharePoint and SharePointLMS released!
Friday, 09 October 2009
SharePoint ePortfolio is a student-centred platform which can be augmented by a total integration to a full-blown LMS.
Students can create and customize portfolios for academic, career or personal use; maintain their plan of study and share their work, goals and achievements with advisers, career counsellors and employers.
Faculty, departments and institutions can create portfolio comments.
Security
SharePoint ePortfolio is a password-protected solution. All sensitive data are taken from Microsoft Active Directory. No portfolio or user information is accessible for internal or external search engines.
Web-based
Files in any electronic format (audio, visual, textual, graphical, mathematical) can be uploaded as part of a portfolio.
LMS Integration
SharePoint ePortfolio is integrated with SharePointLMS allowing for Single Sign-On. In addition students within SharePoint ePortfolio are able to select previously uploaded files and grades in the SharePointLMS system to be included in their electronic portfolio.
Institutionally Branded
SharePoint ePortfolio can be branded with the institution’s logo and name. Institutional links and web parts can be added where appropriate.
Tutorials and Help
A comprehensive "How to Manual" is available on-line in Word and PDF formats.
Multilingual
Select your language of preference for text labels and messages.
SharePoint ePortfolio Highlights
User-Centered: Students control what goes into their SharePoint ePortfolio and who sees it
Customizable: Students can create multiple views
Flexible: Allows students to create portfolios to showcase their skills and achievements
Easy to Use: Users do not need any HTML or programming skills. They have to be able to fill out web forms and upload files, as they would in an email attachment
Goal Oriented: Users can set, review, and revise goals related to their education, course, career, work, service, and volunteer activities
Career Centred: SharePoint ePortfolio contains extensive ways for users to archive information about educational, volunteer, service, work and much more
Faculty Portfolios: Faculty can create their own portfolios to use for professional development, to highlight their achievements, or to archive material for promotion and tenure
Import / Export using IMS standard
Export to zip-file and use it later on another platform
What is included?
Using SharePoint ePortfolio students, employees and others can have their portfolio (blog, calendar, personal info, documents and etc.) on-line. Advanced access control will let the user decide who will be able to read and comment at the portfolio.
A lot of configuration features like the ability to upload files to portfolio, calendar and events by users and many others!
Who can use SharePoint ePortfolio?
Professionals wanting to have their own advanced blog with features such as forum and calendar
For unemployed for CV’s and people looking for work
Students and graduates having their portfolio on-line to be visible for teachers, parents, CEOs...
Artists, sculptures, bands, web-designers... what ever!
SharePointLMS v.2 features
Friday, 24 April 2009
The new and improved features for SharePointLMS version 2!
The new and fresh designed horizontal menu. Course / Organization / LMS administrators can choose whether to use old vertical or new flash-based horizontal on each level.
Multilevel system structure - configure your own Site Collection with all the LMS features included for your local department / office + branding and design of each organization and level. Feature gives you ability to create User Group Home Page with their personal LMS Web Site.
Compare and check your Students Progress with graphs within any Grade Book item.
Assign Numerical Scale to any Quiz or Grade Book item. Get even more flexibility assessing your students!
The new Assignments delivered to learners in specified period of time
Possibility to create assignment with chosen Grades Scale
Workflow control Learners doing the assignment in time allowed
Calendar view for teacher
Separate list for checking every learner progress
Assignments integrated with automatic plagiarism control for attached documents
Integration with the Microsoft Office Communication Server – run professional Conferences with:
Video conferencing
Session recording
Advanced sound stream control
Desktop/desktop area/application sharing with Whiteboard
Remote desktop control
Multiple video streaming
Chat
Upload any files
Present MS PowerPoint slides
Embedded Windows Media and Flash players to play videos.
All the most popular formats are included!
Create Workspaces in your Calendar and invite course members to share the information or for additional communication
Improved SharePoint Web Parts configuration, look and feel delivers more information on the user’s front page.
The new file manager
Categories
Integrated preview
Files and folders statistic
and more...
Get the maximum usability managing your files and folders in LMS or specific Course!
The new DropBox based on SharePoint List gives even more flexibility controlling Course Groups access
Hierarchical Parental Control brings even more flexibility on controlling learner progress by third party. Parents can create, order and modify reports for all their kids’ courses.
Rebuilt and restructured Learning Path Tool
Get even more results and possibilities sorting and configuration study program for your learners
Based on standard SharePoint lists for extra access configuration and flexibility
View every attempt started for each Learning Path
Usability and layout design improvements
Maths equation editor for working with maths formulas gives opportunity to use SharePointLMS for maths lessons without any restrictions.
Significant Grade Book improvements!
Export Grade Book results to Excel to have flexible Course Users grading reports
Configuration of your Grade Book structure never been so easy before!
Edit Grade Book learners’ stats using Microsoft Data Sheet – the easiest way to change all the learners’ grades
Add you own Grade Book Grades based on any predefined scale template
Quizzes tool changes:
Shared Question Pool to share the questions between courses and teachers outside the Courses
Quiz Templates - Save the Quiz as a template and create the new quiz with two mouse clicks using the ready-made template
Partially score – define different score for chosen answers in one question
Quiz Branching - learner will be able to process to chosen questions depending on the answers given
Every Quiz now is based on standard SP List – give permissions for quiz to chosen group or user inside the Active Directory
LMS Surveys - integrated courses Surveys to enrich your tests and exams
The new integrated SharePoint E-portfolio module:
Select previously uploaded files in the SharePointLMS to be included in your electronic portfolio
Create your personal electronic portfolio
Show your personal skills and grades from SharePointLMS
Show your personal certificates received
Set, review and revise goals related to your education process
Create faculty portfolios for chosen groups
Create you own advanced blog with features such as forum and calendar
Write messages for your students
Send invitations for visitors
Integration between SharePointLMS and Podcasting Kit (PKS).
Using the new tool you can:
Listen and watch audio/video podcasts, anywhere on your PC or mobile device (Zune, SmartPhone, or any podcasting device)
Share content by producing your own audio/video podcasts and publish them on PKS on your own.
Connect and engage with podcasters via your integrated instant messaging program
Find the most relevant content using the five star rating system, tag cloud, search engine and provide your feedback via comments
Get automatic podcast updates by subscribing to RSS feeds fully compatible with Zune and other podcasting devices
Simple RSS feed based on a defined podcast series / person / search results
Play podcasts in real-time using Microsoft® Silverlight™ and progressive playback
Retrieve instant ROI and metrics with the ability to track the number of podcasts downloaded and/or viewed, instant feedback via rating system and comments, and subscribers via the RSS feed
Customize your own PKS User Experience
Administrate easily Course teachers right from the course creation step
Improved user interface when sorting your learning materials and documents.
New designed interface for Ephorus.
Control your documents easier. Get more details inside the each report.
Create Shortcuts to course documents on your Intranet to use your own documents inside the Course.
Authoring Tools promotion
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Ultimate discount till the 30th of March 2009!
Catch your chance to buy our professional versions of PowerPointForce, WordForce and QuizForce. We offer 40% discount for our professional versions bundle till the end of March. Make sure you don’t miss the promotion time!
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