|
Access Rights | These
set the limits to what you see and what you can do on the Learning
Platform web site. Teachers, Students
and Administrators have different rights. |
| Administrator |
A member of staff with highest level of Access
Rights. |
|
Assessments | Quizzes
devised using Learning Platform tools (eg missing
words, multiple choice) |
|
Chat | One of the Learning
Platform's inbuilt Collaboration Tools - used
globally across the whole school or locally within a Course. |
| Class | All
Students enrolled on a Course.
If a Course is shared across
a Year Group then the Class can quickly contain over
100 students. Workgroups are an important way of
defining smaller groups of Students. |
| Collaboration
Tools | Learning Platform's
tools for Forums, eMail
and Chat. |
|
Content | Material
put into Learning Platform by a teacher for students
to use. This might be teacher-authored; it might be commercially bought; it might
be a Testwise Test . |
| Course |
A unit of work for which teachers have combined content
and Learning Platform Assessment
and Collaboration tools - could be one lesson or
could be a term's work. |
|
eMail | One of the Learning
Platform inbuilt Collaboration Tools - used
globally across the whole school or locally within a Course.
This is a limited email tool and does not provide proper one-to-one mail facilities. |
| Forum | One
of the Learning Platform inbuilt
Collaboration Tools - a bulletin board used globally across the whole school
or locally within a Course. |
|
Learning Log | Area
of Learning Platform which allows teachers to track
student progress in a variety of ways. An electronic mark-book. |
| Owner
| We set up a single
Owner of Courses - the school - for each site.
Others are possible, though their effect is purely cosmetic. |
|
PIM | Personal
Information Manager - home page of the Learning
Platform web site - some aspects are configured by the Administrator;
others are set by the User . |
| Quiz | Teacher-authored,
end of unit, local assessment using one of Learning Platform's
inbuilt assessment tools (Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks, etc) |
| Student | A
user with Access Rights more limited than those of
Tutor or Administrator. |
| Teacher | A
Tutor. |
|
Tutor | A
Teacher with Access Rights
greater than those of the Student, but more restricted
than those of the Administrator. |
| Workgroup |
A subdivision of the total Class of Students
enrolled on a Course. This may be
just a couple of students or it might be a complete teaching group within the
school. |
