Feature List

Assignment Tool

• Assignment Management (Create, View, Edit, Delete, Hide/Publish)
• Pre-built Assignment Library (eg., provided by publishers/institution)
• Student statistics (activity, progress, grades, etc.) on each assignment.

Communication Tools

• Announcements & Alerts
  • Social media push communication to instructors/students
  • Centralized announcement and course news page with new message notifications
• Course Discussion Forum
  • Threaded discussions for individual instructor topics or student group collaboration or assignments
  • Graded discussions for instructor feedback and student participation credit
  • Powerful search tool allows instructor/student to limit or expand searches to include current forum, current topic, or all forums in all courses they have access too.
  • Peer-to-Peer forum posting rating system with participation statistics for the instructor.
  • Social media push communication to user designated accounts on popular social networking sites.
• Course e-Mail
  • Unified email client lets student or instructor see all email from all available courses.
  • Course email may be grouped by course or by date received
  • Course email may be forwarded to external email accounts with ability to reply back

Content Management System

• Full screen WYSIWYG editors to create internal content pages
• Drag-and-Drop Content manipulation
• Ability to Publish/Hide content
• Built-in video players release students from 3rd party application installations
• Manage and link to multiple assets (Files, Web links, Assignments, tests, other LMS tools)
• WikiPages for social group collaboration/individual student projects

Gradebook

• Export grades to Excel and other popular LMS integration file formats
• Print Gradebook completely or just selected student records
• Final Grade Configuration Editor
• Gradebook Category Manager
• Inline editing of student grades
• Student Activity Reports

Test Tool

• Test Management (Create, View, Edit, Delete, Hide/Publish)
• Test Configuration Wizard with multiple options:
  • Secured (Password Protected) tests
  • Question Sets and randomization including answer choices
  • Time Limits
  • Availability Windows
  • Option to selectively release tests to individual students
  • Release score settings for individual student feedback
• Question library allows creation and management of all test questions from a central location
• Test library (pre-made assessments with default settings provided by publishers/institution)
• Ability to copy tests across different courses and course sections
• Course survey tool with trend reports

Administrator Dashboard

• Institutions/Programs
  • Create/Manage Programs and Institutions to organize courses
• License Key Management
  • Create/Manage Individual and/or Institutional course license keys
  • Three license types: Single Use, Multiple Use, Unlimited Use
  • Licenses can be associated to single/multiple courses/products
  • License usage can be limited to number of uses, number of days and quantity
  • License pricing can be set at individual license level (Requires e-Commerce module to be activated on web portal)
• Instructor Management
  • Approve/Deny New Instructor Account Requests
  • Instructor Accounts: Add/View/Edit/Delete
  • Assign Institutional License keys to instructors
• Teaching Assistant Management
  • Teaching Assistant Account: Add/Assign/View/Edit/Delete
  • Manage Teaching Assistant course access permissions
• Student Management
  • Create new Student Account
  • Student Accounts: Add/View/Edit/Delete
  • Student Course Access: View/Enroll/Drop
• Sales Representative Management
  • View/Add/Edit/Delete Sales Representative Accounts
• Courses Management
  • View list of courses and course section on system
  • Edit/Transfer/Backup/Restore/Delete courses
• Reporting/Analytics
  • Enrollment and license usage reports
  • Custom reports as required by institution

Instructor Dashboard

• Course Management
  • Create a courses from scratch, from an existing course or from a shared course
  • Organize Courses into Categories
  • Course Management: Reset/Delete
  • Course Backup and Restore (SCORM compliant)
    • Create full or selective Course Backups
    • Ability to restore a course backup back to the LMS
    • Download Course Backup Package for course archival and review
  • Course Localization
  • Course Announcements & News
  • Manage Student Rosters (Search, Move, Delete, Drop, or Deny Student course access)
  • Course Marketing Tool (Welcome Page)
• Account Profile and Password management
• Teaching Assistant management (Add/Delete/Set Course Permissions)
• Course and Learning Resources reports/analytics

Student Dashboard

• Account Profile and Password management
• Add/Drop Courses
• View Course Announcements
• Purchase/renew course access license keys

Teaching Assistant Dashboard

• Instructor enabled course-by-course permission driven access to Course Assignments, Tests, Announcements, Course Content, and Gradebook.

• Instructor (My Files)
  • Provides ability to organize and manage their personal files in their LMS account.
  • Upload/Download/Compress/Decompress/View/Move/Delete/Edit files
  • Organize files by folders in intuitive and natural tree file system
  • Access files from any course shell instructor has access to and add files to course content
• Student (e-Portfolio)
  • Ability to store artifacts such as Files, Images, Videos, Test and Gradebook results, any other "evidence" you can store digitally (ex: student stats per course such as attendance, content click through, etc).
• Publisher/Institution
  • Provides publishers/content providers to offer course templates/learning resources to schools/institutions/individual instructors on the higherL platform
  • Store full courses, test banks, sample assignments, presentations, and other a ancillary files that may be associated to a particular book title or learning resource.

• Custom branded portal site
• E-Commerce Shopping Cart
• LMS Account registration and Login Forms
• F.A.Q page
• Dedicated 1-800 Technical Support phone number
• System Check Utility - LMS minimum requirements system check utility