-
Empower instructors, academic technologists, and instructional designers to build and implement assignments and activities from a palette of re-usable social media tools including wikis, blogs, journals, podcasts, and templates.
-
Implement a secure social network and community for instructors, students, departments, and administrators.
-
Provide every individual a space and network to create, categorize, assess, and present academic and co-curricular activities with instructors, peers, advisors, or anyone in the world.
-
Personal Development Plans (PDP) facilitate the structure necessary for students to reflect upon individual learning, performance, and achievement, and map personal, educational, and career development. Institutions can easily design template profiles to meet the needs of different users and skill set groups.
A Unique Environment for Collaborative Learning
Campus Pack is designed for educational institutions. Its organization into Course Components, Personal Learning Spaces, and Community Areas mirrors your core activities of courses; study, research, and reflection; and co-curricular activities. The Course Components anticipate the special role of instructors and include unique assessment tools, while the Personal Learning Spaces and Community Areas are designed to support learning and development outside of the classroom. The LMS and SIS integration capabilities, the data [structure], and the administrative tools are all tailored to the needs of your e-learning environments.
Campus Pack has evolved over more than five years in response to feedback and requests from our user community, now comprising nearly 500 educational institutions.
At the same time as supporting your institutional structures, Campus Pack gives end-users control over their experience. Users' Personal Learning Spaces allow them to create and share their own content for their own learning purposes. Users can use themes and customizable layouts to manage the organization and appearance of their content and bookmarks.
Campus Pack gives users easy access to information, regardless of where it is housed, and users can easily locate peers and groups of interest to them. RSS, tagging, site bookmarking, browsing, and other features help users discover and access the content they seek.
Campus Pack's Community Areas make it possible for a group's leaders to manage the group's online community—its membership, its content, and the openness of its site. Ad hoc study groups and special event sites like homecoming or commencement can be created as needed.
Campus Pack's sharing features are robust yet easy to use. Whether in courses, personal learning spaces, or community areas, access to spaces and sites can be specifically defined. Permissions for viewing, contributing, commenting, and tagging can be selected in any combination, and the permissions can apply narrowly or broadly—to select individuals, a group, a whole institution, or everyone in the world.
Since multiple permission sets can be created for a given space or site, the level of access can be fine-tuned for different groups of participants. Additionally, permission sets can be restricted by date. So, for example, access to an assignment could be available only to a group of students until the due date, when it could become publicly available.
The permissions for a site or space are defined by the site manager(s), which includes the site owner by default. The system adminstrator has the ability to set domain-wide boundaries on sharing.
The service administrator can configure the appearance of Campus Pack to implement the institution's brand identity by setting default banners, logos, and themes. The option to create a custom theme allows an institution maximal control over the look-and-feel. Additionally, the Language Pack feature gives an institution full control of the wording displayed in the service.
End-users also have ability to customize the look-and-feel of their spaces and sites. The manager of a personal learning space or community area can personalize the space with a custom banner, profile image, and site icons, and he can organize his sites with drag-and-drop controls. A manager also has the ability to chose the themes that offer the colors and style most appropriate for the content.
An Administrator-Friendly Solution
Campus Pack runs in our secure data centers, in an operating environment optimized for the service, and users access it via the Internet. The delivery as a service frees you from managing the technical systems, so you can focus on managing your configuration to meet your institution's goals. New releases and enhancements are deployed to you automatically, so your software is always up-to-date, and uniformity of the operating environment improves our ability to provide technical support.
Multiple hosting sites around the world keep your data close to home and enable optimal performance. Currently, Learning Objects operates data centers in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, and we will soon launch a data center in Asia.
LMS connectors and SIS integrations are installed locally in the clients' facilities.
Campus Pack integrates with your existing e-learning systems, creating a seamless experience for users.
Off-the-shelf connectors integrate Campus Pack with Moodle, eCollege, Blackboard Learn, and Blackboard Vista/CE. These learning management system connectors support data and feature integration, including
- Synchronization of course rosters and roles
- Integrated assignment creation
- Recognition of existing course groups
- Course copy and restore
- Gradebook integration
API's allow for custom integration options, including intregration with other LMSs, enterprise data systems, and LDAP directories, as well as Single Sign-On. Alternatively, you can use Campus Pack's Batch Upload Tool to populate rosters.
Campus Pack allows you to implement the data and privacy policies appropriate for your institution, and it gives you tools for monitoring and managing your institution's activity. Some of the actions administrators can take include the following:
- Define user roles
- Create default configuration for course and user spaces
- Set file upload quotas
- Allocate space as desired among different courses and users
- Establish global sharing boundaries
- Monitor system activity, in aggregate and granularly
- Modify or replace language packs
- Implement institutional branding
|