<li>Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed
in HTML or plain text.</li>
</ul>
<b>Assignment Module</b>
<ul>
<li>Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.</li>
<li>Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server -
they are date-stamped.</li>
<li>Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly
to the teacher</li>
<li>For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and
comment) on one page in one form.</li>
<li>Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and
notification is mailed out.</li>
<li>The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading
(for regrading)</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Choice Module</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Like a poll. Can either be used to vote on something, or to get feedback
from every student (eg research consent)</li>
<li>Teacher sees intuitive table view of who chose what</li>
<li>Students can optionally be allowed to see an up-to-date graph of results</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Forum Module</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Different types of forums are available, such as teacher-only, course news,
open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.</li>
<li>All postings have the authors photo attached.</li>
<li>Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.</li>
<li>Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are
forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all</li>
<li>The teacher can choose not to allow replies (eg for an announcements-only
forum)</li>
<li>Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums by the teacher</li>
</ul>
<b>Journal Module</b>
<ul>
<li>Journals are private between student and teacher.</li>
<li>Each journal entry can be directed by an open question.</li>
<li>For each particular journal entry, the whole class can be assessed on one
page in one form</li>
<li>Teacher feedback is appended to the journal entry page, and notification
is mailed out.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Quiz Module</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Teachers can define a database of questions for re-use in different quizzes</li>
<li>Questions can be stored in categories for easy access, and these categories
can be "published" to make them accessible from any course on the
site. </li>
<li>Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are
modified </li>
<li>Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not available</li>
<li>At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can
show feedback and/or correct answers</li>
<li>Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled (randomised) to reduce cheating</li>
<li>Questions allow HTML and images</li>
<li>Questions can be imported from external text files</li>
<li>Multiple-choice questions supporting single or multiple answers</li>
<li>Short Answer questions (words or phrases)</li>
<li>True-False questions </li>
<li>Matching questions</li>
<li>Random questions</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Resource Module</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Supports display of any electronic content, Word, Powerpoint, Flash, Video,
Sounds etc</li>
<li>Files can be uploaded and managed on the server, or created on the fly using
web forms (text or HTML)</li>
<li>External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within
the course interface.</li>
<li>External web applications can be linked in with data passed to them</li>
</ul>
<b>Survey Module</b>
<ul><li>Built-in surveys (COLLES, ATTLS) have been proven as instruments for analysing online classes</li><li>Online survey reports always available, including many graphs. Data is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file.</li><li>Survey interface prevents partly-finished surveys.</li><li>Feedback is provided to the student of their results compared to the class averages</ul>
