Some of our WebCT CE 4 Catalogue
Products are available as custom deployments for other LMS versions
and/or have been incorporated into our E-Learning Application
Manager (EAM).
NetKnowledgy's core product is its E-Learning Application
Manager (EAM). This is a middleware application that provides
administrative and other staff with a web-based interface for managing
online courses and integration between learning management systems
and institutional systems.
Features include:
Course-cycle
Can be customised to meet your business requirements
around course request, approval, creation, release,
backup and archive.
Institutional structure
Arrange courses according to your institutional structure,
categories and terms. Map these to LMS groupings as appropriate.
Student cohorts
Flexible selection of student cohorts utilising data
from your student system - select students based on
any criteria and combine these as needed.
Control access based add, access, end and archive dates,
implement different drop actions based on census date or
other criteria.
Staff
Add staff to your LMS using data from your human resources
system, add staff to their courses on creation and,
according to their LMS, institutional or EAM roles,
allow staff to manage other users.
Non-institutional users
Allow adding and LMS enrolment of non-institutional users
according to your business rules.
Helpdesk
View user LMS and SIS data on one page for enrolment troubleshooting,
auto-signon to courses as helpdesk or user accounts for investigating
issues within courses.
Student self-help
Reduce helpdesk load by allowing students to query their enrolment
data and see which courses have an online presence and when.
Reporting
Collect additional course data such as online mode and
course classification and report on all data using
your classifications and institutional structure.
Permissions and roles
Fully flexible permissions allow the definition of your own roles and
access rights within EAM.
This allows the delegation of things such as helpdesk activities
and reporting.
Auto-registration (self-enrolment)
Allow users to seamlessly enter a given course according to user type, LMS or
institutional enrolment, or other criteria.
LMS integration
Batch or real-time updating, gradebook populating.
Multiple systems
Facilitate the use of multiple LMS and other learning tools by
updating them simultaneously from EAM.
In use at institutions with various student information systems,
including Callista, PeopleSoft, StudentOne and internally developed.
Sub-components have also been deployed in non-web environments for
managing course creation and student system integration.
