Accessibility Accessibility for persons with disabilities entails providing for a universal text version without relying on frames, tables, or images.

Administration Administration Tools include all those setup and maintainance task involved on the server side of the application and extending to setup/configuration of client side software to work properly with the server side application. Some of these tasks may be carried out by instructors in some situations

Analyzing_and_tracking Analyzing and tracking tools include facilities for statistical analysis of student-related data and the facility to display the progress of individual students in the course structure.

Application_sharing Application sharing includes the running of an application on one machine and sharing the window view of the running application across the Web and there may also be provisions for sharing mouse control of the application.

Asynchronous Sharing Asynchronous sharing refers to the exchange of data and files where the correspondents are not on-line at the same time.

Authorization tools that assign access and other privileges to specific users or user groups.

BBS_file_exchange Bulletin Board Service is the facility for downloading files and upload\posting files over the Web.

Bookmarks Bookmarks identify internet locations and this category covers the creation, display, management and updating of bookmarks.

Building_knowledge Building knowledge includes facilities to accumulate and share the knowledge gained by individual instructors through their experience with distance education. Examples of knowledge building include the range from simple Q&A files to extensive database style data warehouses of tips, workarounds, and class exercises.

Building_motivation Building motivation includes facilities for self-help and possibly other help (buddy system) to encourage and enhance morale.

Chat Chat includes facilities like Internet Relay Chat IRC and similar text exchanges.

Course_planning Course planning tools are facilities that enable at least initial course layout and or structuring.

Course Course Tools are facilities that facilitate the instructor's tasks related to bringing course materials together and managing the student's use/access of those materials.

Course_monitoring Course monitoring includes facilities that provide information about the usage of course resources by individual students and groups of students.

Course_customizing Course customizing includes the facility to change the structure of the course and its assignments, exams, etc. This may include guides, templates, and related product suport and training.

Course_managing Course managing tools include facilities to enable instructors to collect information from or about students related to their progress in the course structure and to permit/deny access to course resources.

Crash_recovery Crash recovery tools include facilities to recover from communications or server hardware failure without loss of data. These are tools in addition to the tools provided by the operating system.

Curriculum_Managing Curriculum Management includes tools to manage multiple programs, to do skills/competencies management, and to do certification management.

Data Data tools includes tools for marking on-line, managing records, and for analyzing and tracking.

E-mail Electronic Mail using the internet protocols unless noted otherwise.

Group browsing Group Browsing involves a group tour of Web sites with a shared browser window and some interaction capability between the members of the group and at least the tour leader.

Help desk Help Desk tools are facilities that assist the technical administration personnel in handling trouble calls and requests for technical assistance.

IMS_Compliance Instructional Management System (IMS) standards for online education and learning were developed by the www.IMSproject.org which is a consortium of interested organizations. The link for the IMS metadata standards for learning objects is: http://www.adlnet.org/main.html

Installation Server installation includes both software setup tools and installations related services provided by the vendor.

Instructor_support Instructor support tools are facilities to assist technical support personnel in providing technical assistance to instructors using the application.

Instructional_designing Instructional designing includes facilities to help instructors create learning sequences.

Learner Tools Tools/facilities used by the student learner at their location, the client side of distance education.

Lesson Lesson Tools are those facilities that facilitate the development and deployment of instructional sequences smaller than a whole course, like assignments, modules, topics, etc.

Managing_records Managing records includes facilities for organizing and keeping track of course-related information.

Marking_on-line Marking on-line includes facilities that support the marking of student generated material while on-line.

Motivation_building Motivation building includes self-help tools and other facilities that provide direct encouragement to overcome difficulties that impede or impair student performance.

Multimedia Multimedia includes the support for images, audio, video, and VRML files.

Newsgroups Newsgroups facility includes Usenet newsgroups and like functions.

On-line_fees_handling On-line fees handling includes tools to accomplish credit card transactions.

Presenting_information Presenting information includes facilities for formatting, displaying, or showing course material over the Web.

Progress_tracking Progress tracking includes some facility for the student to check marks on assignments and tests.

Registering Registering includes on-line registration and/or linkage with existing registration systems.

Remote_access Remote access tools include facilities to do application system administration from more than one machine.

Resource Resource tools includes tools for building knowledge, team building, and building motivation among instructors.

Resource_monitoring Resource monitoring includes the facility to display the disk space and cpu resources devoted to the application while it is being used.

Searching Searching includes the facility to locate parts of the course materials on the basis of word matching beyond the users current browser page.

Security Browser security refers to the support for secure transactions on the Web and to verify the security of downloaded code.

Self-assessing Self-assessing includes practice quizzes and other survey style assessment tools that may or may not be scored on-line.

Server_security Security tools are used to prevent unauthorized access and/or modification of data. This can include a wide range of approaches and methods.

Student tools Student tools include applications that cater to the special needs of telelearners.

Student_support Student help desk support tools include facilities to facilitate the tasks of an operator responding to requests for help by student users of the application.

Study_skill_building Study skill building includes facilities that support effective study practices, which can range form simple review tools to mini courses in how to study.

Support Tools Instructor tools are facilities primarily intended for use by instructors, markers and course designers.

Synchronous Sharing Real-time information exchange.

Team_Building Team building includes the facility for instructors with common interests to communicate in a way that facilitates their forming a sense of group/team identity.

Teleconferencing Teleconferencing includes audio conferencing.

Testing Testing includes facilities to assist in the making up of practice quizzes, tests, exams, and other assignments.

Videoconferencing Videoconferencing includes broadcasting video to those without a video input device.

Virtual space Virtual Spaces include MOOs, MUDs, and virtual meeting rooms.

Voice_Chat Voice Chat enables 2 or more to communicate via microphone and speaker conference call style over the internet connection in real time.

Web Browsing Tools for viewing HTML documents (also see Browsers)

Whiteboard Whiteboard facility includes a shared text window that may also support shared drawing.

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