Distance Learning Environments Feature List

Iowa State University

http://classnet.cc.iastate.edu

ClassNet is an Iowa State University solution providing a tightly integrated, automated class management system. ClassNet is created specifically to aide the administrative aspects of course management via the web. ClassNet pages are generated on the fly by CGI access to a database of student names, IDs, course names and designations, and associated tests and assignments.

University of Illinois

http://cyberprof.uiuc.edu

CyberProf(TM) is a product to enhance the educational process via on-line learning tools and applications. The core of the product is the Human-Computer Interface, which can be configured by the course director to provide comprehensive educational and lecture material, in-depth problem sets with multiple answer types, and instantaneous feedback, all through any combination of multimedia formats desired. Enhancements to the product include a full featured threaded conferencing system, an interactive on-line gradebook which automatically creates class rosters from official electronic University rosters and updates student records as problem sets are completed, a real time chat application, an assignment editor, a problem set maker, and an HTML editor with add on Java applications for adding features to course material sets.

University of Virginia

http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/cgi-local/pmcgi/pm/class/
.tkdocs/displaydocs

The Instructional Toolkit is a collection of World Wide Web-based tools to help instructors create class home pages and utilize electronic resources to administer and manage courses. The Instructional Toolkit helps instructors quickly and easily create course Web pages without having to learn a great deal about technology.

Lotus

http://www2.lotus.com/products/learningspace.nsf

LearningSpace provides a complete environment for creating rich, instructor-facilitated courses. With LearningSpace you have the tools and flexibility to create a course from scratch or put some structure around existing content to foster a more effective and productive environment.

University of Illinois

http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/Mallard

Mallard is a tightly-integrated software system that provides for course material presentation, quizzing and some student management. It is "an interactive asynchronous learning environment that provides for the organization of on-line course material, interactive quizzes, intelligent grading programs capable of providing immediate feedback to the student, and secure systems for managing class rosters and grades.

NCSA

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/ITG/netLearningPlace/

Building on the strengths of netWorkPlace and other collaborative tools developed at NCSA, netLearningPlace is a collaborative environment focused specifically on teaching and learning. netLearningPlace is an environment which integrates multiple tools for collaborative distance education, and just-in-time training. The framework provides both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration capability.

PlaceWare, Inc

http://www.placeware.com

The PlaceWare Conference Center is a dynamic, highly interactive Web-based application that enables individuals to deliver live presentations to remote employees and customers anyplace in the world.

University of Arizona

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/polis

POLIS is both an on-line instructional resource for students and an on-line support tool for instructors. You can use POLIS to put up interactive lessons and other materials on the World Wide Web, which makes them available to your students through any of the various means they might have for connecting to the Internet.

Campus America, Inc

http://www.campuscan.com

The Learning Manager is Windows development environment. Delivery is either by way of a LAN or WWW.

Asymetrix Corporation

http://www.asymetrix.com

ToolBook II offers one of the only authoring solutions that lets you quickly convert your applications directly into HTML and Java, the industry standards for Internet content. Much more than an authoring solution, ToolBook II includes one of the only server-based course management systems that takes full advantage of the interactive, two-way communications offered by the Internet.

WBT Systems

http://www.wbtsystems.com

The TopClass Server is the most powerful software for web based training through its combination of an integrated virtual classroom, content creation and management capabilities, and people management abilities

University of Illinois
Web Support Initiative

http://wsi-www1.cso.uiuc.edu/vci_index.html

The Virtual Classroom Interface is a web-based site development and management tool. The VCI creates a shell into which an instructor can directly post, modify, or remove course-related information. Students can access this information via any port to the World Wide Web

Voice Technologies
680 Craig Rd. Ste. 307
Creve Couer, MO 63141

http://www.voice-tech.com

VOICE is a system designed to promote colloberative learning between students and instructors. Classes are availiable with an instructor leading them real time, or archived classes can be taken is a self-paced mode.

Virginia Commonwealth University

http://www.madduck.com/wcbinfo/wcb.html

Web Course in a Box (WCB) is an integrated approach to enabling instructors with minimal technical expertise to create and manage Web pages for a course.

University of British Columbia

http://homebrew1.cs.ubc.ca/webct

WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated World Wide Web-based educational environments by non-technical users. It can be used to create entire on-line courses, or to simply publish materials that supplement existing courses.

Penn State University

http://projects.cac.psu.edu/WISH

The Web Instructional Services Headquarters contains various internet services for use by faculty to assist them in conducting their classes. Course Web Pages, an automated toolkit to create Web pages for your courses, is evaluated.

North Carolina State University

http://renoir.csc.ncsu.edu/WLS

The Web Lecture System (WLS) is a tool for constructing, editing, and managing Web-based presentations. The presentations will consist of HTML documents or Power Point slides with synchronized audio. /td>