| Administration |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Password and username security |
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| BU Login/ Kerberos authentication |
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| Multiple designer logins |
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| Course roles |
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| System admin roles |
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| Class roster file uploads |
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| Group creation |
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| Centralized admin area with all admin tools |
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| System-wide accounts |
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| Consistent, logical user interface |
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| Course backups |
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| Course content size limits |
(possibly backup size limit) |
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| Logout button |
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| Course Design |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Multiple icon and button styles from which to choose |
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| Instructor can substitute buttons or icons of his or her
own design |
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| Instructor can specify a customized course banner |
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| Header and footer automatically generate on new pages |
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| Custom background color or graphic possible for pages |
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| Page design can be changed globally during course design |
Yes (check this- not sure) |
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| Course can consist of a subset of available tools |
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| "Hit" counter |
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| Multi-language support |
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| Content Development |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Student presentation area |
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| Group chat area |
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| Group bulletin board |
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| Group file drop box |
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| Automated glossary tool |
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| Automated index tool |
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| Searchable image database |
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| Calendar |
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| Multiple calendar events can be loaded from a file |
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| Admin can maintain a master calendar with key events |
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| Support for multimedia |
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| Announcements |
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| Instructor can hide work in progress |
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| Content can be made available based on student criteria |
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| Content can be made available based on chronological criteria |
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| Desktop based file management for uploading to server |
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| Online editing of uploaded files |
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| Upload multiple files at once |
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| One-step file upload |
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| Import and export course content |
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| Integration with CD-ROM |
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| Assessment Design |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Embed HTML within quiz questions |
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| Quiz announcements |
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| Embed images within quiz questions |
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| Embed images within multiple-choice answers |
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| Allow more than one answer to MC questions |
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| Self-tests with MC, fill in the blank questions (automatic
marking) |
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| Redirect path of self test depending on question answers |
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| Timed quizzes (graded with permanent mark retention) |
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| Multiple-try quizzes |
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| Multiple-try quizzes (all attempts graded with permanent
mark retention) |
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| Regrading all quizzes |
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| Generate random set of questions from a pool |
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| Reuse existing questions on a new quiz |
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| Upload/download questions from file |
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| Anonymous surveys |
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| On line marking and grades management of timed quizzes |
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| Indicator when students exceed time limit of timed quizzes |
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| Course Monitoring |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Access statistics (#hits) for each major area including
user ID, date, time, day of week. |
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| Access statistics for individual pagse |
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| Access statistics (time spent per page) for course documents: |
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| Statistics on each student's time spent online |
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| Student access and progress data available |
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| Student bulletin board participation data available |
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| Instructor can query class roster by any type of information |
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| Logged chat |
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| Instructor Support |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Online manual available |
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| Quick start tutorial available |
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| Inline help available (eg Minihelp) |
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| Vendor-provided mailing list |
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| Vendor-provided bulletin board |
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| Web Browsing |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Desktop based file management for uploading to server |
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| Search tool for course material |
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| Student can make private annotations of course material |
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| Student web content presentation area |
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| Synchronous Communication |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Course chat facility |
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| Whiteboard facility |
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| Whiteboard images can be saved into course content |
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| Whiteboard images can be printed or exported |
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| Asynchronous Communication |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Course Electronic Mail |
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| Course bulletin board |
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| Multiple bboards per course |
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| Progress Tracking |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Student can view own grades |
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| Student can compare own grade to class summary data |
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| Study Tools |
WebCT |
CourseInfo |
| Create study guide |
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| Resume reading content at previous stopping point |
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| Annotate content |
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| Compile a set of email messages |
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| Compile a set of bulletin board postings |
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