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1. The Class Index allows teachers and tutors to display their logos, icons, and other valuable information about their classes and services. Students will search the Class Index to find teachers and services. 2. The Community provides an excellent opportunity for users to network, ask questions, and build a strong community within the site. 3. The Rating System rewards good teachers/tutors by allowing their students to rate them. This valuable tool helps to promote quality instructors for doing an outstanding job. 4. Teachers have the option to charge for their class, offer the course for free, or a combination of the two. Teachers may use their own payment gateway such as Paypal to require payments to join classes. This allows the instructor full control for managing classes and students. 5. The LMS Learning Management System provides teachers and tutors with a meeting ground with access to teaching tools. The LMS is very easy to set up and will allow instructors to manage their student population and content. Here are some key points to consider:
- Create your own themes and individualized look of your class
- Incorporate multimedia into your class with just a few clicks.
- Build lessons with all types of resources like word docs, pdf, images, software, and much more.
- Collaboration tools and your own forum.
- Internal communication synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous (chat) with advanced options including media upload, playback, and skip. All sessions are logged for later viewing, and these can also be made available to students.
- Various learning tools are available for your students like the Graphing Calculator and more.
- Mobile devices are compatible with the LMS allowing instructors and students to communicate, perform tests, and activities via cell phone or pda.
- Includes language packs for over 70 languages. Activate a new language with a click!
- Teachers can add an "enrollment key" to their courses to keep out non-students. They can give out this key face-to-face or via personal email, etc.
- A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers
- Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops
- Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the course home page - helps give sense of community
- All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file)
- Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings etc on one page.
- Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback, etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text.
- Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments
- Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
- Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - they are date-stamped.
- Glossary Module: create your own class-related glossary.
- Resource Module: Supports display of any electronic content, Word, Powerpoint, Flash, Video, Sounds etc. that are stored locally, or remotely
- Files can be uploaded and managed (zipped, unzipped, renamed, moved, etc..) on the server
- Wiki Module
6. Users do not have to budget for advertising. We market Click-a-Teacher in various media, including Internet advertising. School administrators will also have the opportunity to view your work and may present you with new opportunities.
7. No fees or advertisements!
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