EDU 2.0

E-Learning PlatformBy: Mary Barefoot

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EDU 2.0 IS A CLOUD HOSTING PLATFORM

There’s nothing to download, install, or maintain.

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FREE FOR TEACHERS

Free unlimited storage for teachers up to 2000 students.

.30 a student for organizations.

Easy sign-up.

I signed up in less than a minute.

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INSTRUCTOR-LED AND OTHER CLASSES

Rich support for instructor-led, blended, and self-paced classes

Create lessons connected to state and common core standards that include multimedia content, a wide variety of assignment types, and track student proficiencies

Assignments can be set up as gateways, which means that students cannot proceed to the next lesson until a specified threshold score has been achieved.

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ASSESSMENT

Quizzes Question banks Surveys Attendance Offline Freeform Rubrics Student notes with

configurable visibility Debates Discussion assignments Team assignments Dropbox assignments Extra credit assignments Personalized assignments

Several types of assessments, including quizzes, freeform, debates and discussions, question banks, timed quizzes, and answer feedback

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ANALYZING AND REPORTING STUDENT PROGRESS

a teacher can graphically see student progress through a class's lessons and assignments, or through an individual assignment.

You can see a timeline of a student's activities within a class, as well as a report of enrollment, status, and completion.

Chart student progress through lessons

Chart student progress through assignments

Chart student scores Site statistics Student activity timeline Class enrollment report Class completion report

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EASY TO FIND LESSONS AND STUDENTS Go straight to the current

lesson Hover over names and

send a message or click Skype for a video conference or chat.

Classes organized by category and have tabs for lessons, calendar, forums, blogs, and wikis.

Lessons easily created and downloaded

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RESOURCES FOR CREATING LESSONS Text/HTML Images Videos (edu 2.0 provides the video hosting) Audio Slideshows Google apps integration Badge integrations with Facebook and Twitter Audio Recording Moodle Import

BUILT-IN COLLABORATION TOOLS

Groups Forum Blogs Chat rooms Wikis Video

conferencing using Skype

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COLLABORATION FEATURES

Groups: A group is a place for members to meet and collaborate. Examples include study groups, interest groups, school groups, and class groups

Forum: Several areas of the site, such as classes and groups, have forums for discussions. Discussions are threaded so it's easy to follow a conversation.

Blogs: A blog is an online journal for sharing your thoughts with others. This site supports personal blogs, class blogs and group blogs.

Chat Rooms: A chat room allows members to exchange text messages in real time. Classes and groups have their own private chat rooms. You can also initiate a chat directly with a user if they are online

Wikis: A wiki is a collection of pages that more than one person can edit. The history for each page is kept so that you can see the edits and who made them. In addition, you can restore a page to one of its previous versions.

ALL FEATURES ARE EASY TO USE

Just hover over the feature and you will see the basic information. Click on that information and it takes you there. ncs-tech.org

FEATURES Reporting and analyticsCurricula and ProficienciesCertificationHome pageMessagingWeb conferencingMonitoring School DistrictsE-commercePortfoliosInternationalizationIntegrationCloud hostedSupport

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PortalMobileClassesLessonsAssessmentQuizzesGradebookCollaborationSCORMAccount managementTeaching assistantsParents

TECH SUPPORT

The community support forum can be accessed by anyone and allows members to help each other with issues.

Direct access to the technical support staff. If you have any kind of question, suggestion, or bug

report, visit the help area by clicking the icon in the side bar or the Help/support links in the footer of every page.

You can access the technical support staff by clicking on the support icon. They respond to questions within a few hours during US business hours.

You can also click on the community support icon and see if other members can help you.

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OVERVIEW Support is always available by

the on-line support board Use your own URL, customize the

sight, Enable communications

monitoring that scan offensive words and reports the resource.

Analyzing and reporting data: such as how many students have visited a lesson and how long they stayed on the lesson.

Curriculum and profeciences: you can create a lesson that matches state and common core standards and can be customized, organzied in categories.

Instructor-led Classes Keeps the focus on collaboration

and communication

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OVERVIEW

Digital certificates can be automatically created when a class is completed.

E-commerce allows teachers to charge for certain classes and lets you track customers and their purchases.

Integrate with external systems such as google apps, moodle import and others.

Reports can be generated to see how well students are understanding each profeciency and allows students to track their own profeciency.

Self-paced classes can be created and the student can easily focus on the lessons.

Groups established quickly.

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OVERVIEW

Provide a wide range of build-in reports All features can be accessed using a

mobile device. Designed to be seen clearly on tablets. Easy to import and export accounts Parent accounts and full support for

those accounts Resources can be shared with other

campuses. Built-in portfolio system for each

student to put in their own library, share with others, and showcase their work.

Supports a wide range of languages. Analyzing and reporting data: such as

how many students have visited a lesson and how long they stayed on the lesson.

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RESULTS

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Online Teaching: Building Communities & Facilitating Student Discussions

Dr. Adrianne Hunt

Created by: Mary Barefoot