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Online Varsity SystemOnline Varsity SystemOnline Varsity SystemOnline Varsity System

http://www.orbund.comhttp://www.orbund.com


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Opening Questions

Would you like to provide education to allstudents in all campuses and departmentsunder one single management system?

Would you like to provide students access totheir academic and performance records?

Would you like to provide online education in

future and attract students from otherregions or countries?


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Solutions

Online Varsity System allows alladministrators and staff manage theuniversity through ONE system. So,there is no issue with transferringrecords from one system toanother.

Instructors can access their gradebook, and prepare lesson plansfrom anywhere.

Students can view their progressreports real time and see whatassignments they missed and whathomework assignments are due.


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Solutions

Students can communicate with the

teachers using messaging. Teacherscan send announcements for class onupcoming tests, projects, field trips or

just class rules.

The system will send an alert to thestudents by email, text messaging oncell phone, notifying about anymessages, announcements or gradeposted by a teacher.

The administrator can print the semesterreports, invoices, and transcripts fromany workstation. This saves theuniversity a lot of time and money.


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Solutions

The system completely integrates with the

university website. So there is no need

to update the website for

announcements, events calendar, staff

directory etc.

Accepting and processing online

inquiries, applications and class

registration.

The whole system is very customizable

and can support international

standards and many languages.


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Students

Online Varsity System allows students to follow their academic

progress in class. Each student will be given a username andpassword to access their academic records from home.

* Homework assignments

* Grades

* Academicreports

* Transcript

* Submit assignments online

* Discuss class lessons

* Enroll incourses

* Announcements ofupcoming tests,

events etc.

* Events calendar

* Private Messaging (communicatewithinstructors)

* Access invoice andpay online


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Instructors

Using the Online Varsity System instructors can manage class

activities, prepare post and receive homework online and maintaincommunication with students on a regular basis. Progress reportscan be generated automatically to help the teachers assiststudents in improving class performance.

* Gradebook

* Lessonplanner

* Attendancerecords

* Progress reports

* Class announcements

* Course Materials

* Events calendar

* Private Messaging to answerstudent queries

* Class discussion

* Supportfor Spanishlanguage


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Administrators

Administrators can manage all activities and records from

anywhere in a highly secured environment.

* Student, Teacher & Staffrecords

* Grade sheets

* Semesterreports

* Transcripts

* Attendancereports

* Tuitionpaymenttracking

* Events calendar

* News and announcements

* Privatemessaging

* Email and SMS alerts

* Contactmanagement

* Track issues andcomplaints

* Printletters, labels, ID cards


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Higher productivity -Able to do

work remotely from home, when ontravel and during holidays.

Enable sharing and reuse of lesson

plans for future intakes.

Able to use it for communicating

from anywhere, with all parties, at

anytime: facilitate visiting lecturers

program.

Upgraded ICT skills and higher

productivity for faster promotion and

increment.

Benefits to instructors


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Benefits to university

Control and manage the university and

staff through a centralized Data center

Instant Contact with all parties through

dispatch and announcement.useful

during emergencies

Increase overall school productivity rate

No capital investment in equipment,

server room or additional technical staff

Smart university image will allow to use

this value added service as marketing

tools to increase enrollment


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Speed up communications with

Teachers / Lecturers whenever needed.

Gets visibility of Lesson plan from

teachers to plan and prepare coming

classes.

Dont have to miss school work and

even lessons when on medical leave or

on travel.

Get instilled in ICT environment and

applications at early age.

Benefits for students


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Benefits to national economy

Increase educational standards

Increase enrollment

Promote ICT literacy

Increased productivity = Increased

GDP/capita

Promote education tourism industry


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Website Integration

Online Varsity System integrates with your

university website. Visitors will be able to

see up-to-date information without

requiring any regular maintenance by a

webmaster.

News and announcements

Events calendar

Faculty directory with up-to-date list ofcourses teaching

Student login


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About Us and Our Services

Orbund is an education technology company

based in Kansas City, USA. Established in1993.

We pride ourselves as a first class service

oriented company - not just a technology

company. We give special attention to all

your needs, to make sure you are running

smoothly all the time. This means not only

do we provide 24 hours support 365 days a

year, but also monitor our systems and try

to resolve issues before they affect you.

We listen to your needs, and are improving

functionality, performance and services

every day to meet those needs.


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Technology and Security

Application Security

We give special attention to protect and maintain all ofyour academic data on our servers. OurOnline VarsitySystem uses Digital Certificates and SSL security(same technology used by financial and medicaltechnology systems) so that no one without properauthentication can access any academic records.

Data SecurityData on our servers is backed up everyday and stored in

a secured, fire-proof chamber; so that we can quicklyand easily recover from any unforeseen disaster orcircumstances.

Network SecurityOur servers are hosted in a robust data center, with

redundant climate control systems, power backup,high speed redundant Ethernet, and RAID disk arraysystems. We give special attention and monitor ourservers to maintain 24 hours up time and make sure

your school is running smoothly.


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DOMINICASTATE COLLEGEOFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR

Stockfarm Campus, P. O. Box 2066, Stockfarm, Commonwealth of Dominica, WI.

Tel. (767) 440-1129, 616-1131 Fax (767) 440 3934 Email: [email protected]

LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

The Dominica State College has been using the Online Varsity System for the last school year. It has indeed been awonderful experience. This software is suitable to the needs of our college and incorporates the various departmentssuch as Registration, Admission, Finance, helping the make the various processes much simpler and less stressful.What is most impressive about this software is that it is user friendly and this has been confirmed not only by ourAdministration and staff members but this sentiment is also shared by the general student body.

Additionally, the technical support is impressive; consistent, dependable and efficient service has been received from theOrbund technicians.

We have no reservations is making recommendation for this Records Management Software.

Yours Sincerely

Ashley Massicotte

Associate Registrar


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Testimonial

Perdana College has been using Orbunds varsity system for a year now, and we have

received very positive feedback from both our students and our staff who have found it tobe very helpful. We have referred to it as the Perdanas EASy system as it is user-friendly

and is easily accessible anywhere and anytime with an Internet connection.

Orbund has provided us with excellent service both before and after the deployment of our

system. We find them to be quick in responding to our requests for help or changes to the

system.

I highly recommend Orbund and its services.

Chin B. Y.

Head of IT services

June 21, 2006

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