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| Of Interest to All Users |
| Easy navigation - Campus Pack's user-centered design allows you to readily navigate between your personal learning space, course assignments, and co-curricular groups. And if Campus Pack is intergrated with your LMS or SIS, you can enjoy a continuous experience across systems. |
| Feature-rich text editor - The text editor used throughout Campus Pack is straightforward to use and readily accommodates formatted text, tables, graphics, and video. You have the option to define CSS styles and to edit directly in HTML. |
| Easy handling of videos, images, and audio - Multimedia files can be included in any site as uploaded content or embedded links. A variety of formats—e.g., Flash, Quicktime, Shockwave, Windows Media and Real Media—are supported, and you can select options such as in-line play and autoplay. |
| History tracking and comparison - With the History feature, you can see how a wiki or blog entry evolved over time and revert to an earlier version if you desire. The unique Version Compare feature lets you see different versions side-by-side, with the differences highlighted. |
| Threaded commenting - Commenting is an available option on all sites, and threading allows users to organize comments and replies around particular points. |
| Activity feeds - Activity feeds let you know with a quick glance what sites within a space have recently been edited. |
| RSS - With RSS enabled, content from wikis, blogs, and podcasts sites can be pushed out to users to facilitate learning on the go. You can subscribe to an RSS feed with one click and can have content sent to a blog aggregator like Bloglines or to a podcatchers like iTunes. |
| Site copy - This feature allows you to copy a site from one space to another. For example, you could copy a completed course assignment into you personal learning space, or you could transfer ownership of a site you created to an organization you belong to. Site copy is only allowed if the recipient has been granted export privileges. |
| Access by invitation - A site manager can set sharing privileges for specific individuals outside of the institution, and then the individuals will receive an email giving them access to the site (subject to domain-level sharing restrictions). |
| Site bookmarking - The Bookmarking feature allows you to create a link to sites that you want to keep front and center. You can organize your bookmarked links alongside your own sites in the modules of your personal learning space. |
| Tagging - Tag clouds appear on every space and site, allowing you to pursue topics of interest throughout a space. Tags can be created by both authors and viewers of a site, depending on the how the permissions have been defined. |
| Browse organizations' and peers' profiles - The Browse function allows users to search through a structured directory for other users and organizations and to access their spaces with one click. The directory recognizes the user's course enrollments and memberships, making it easy for the user to narrow the focus. |
| Full-text search - The Search feature enables you to find relevant content throughtout the Campus Pack domain. Search respects established sharing permissions; its results include only those sites to which a user has access permissions. |
| Accessibility - Campus Pack conforms to Section 508 standards. One aspect of its accessibility is a large-print, no image theme that any user can choose to use. |
| Customizable UI - You can customize the look and feel of the spaces and sites that you manage. In your Personal Learning Space, you can upload your choice of a profile image and custom banner, select a theme, and organize sites within modules. For a site, you can select a theme according to your preference and the site's content and audience. |
| Of Special Interest to Instructors and Administrators |
| Assessment tools - Course instructors have access to special tools that help them understand students' participation in a site's development. For example, the wiki Evaluation tool gives an instructor visibility into an individual student's contributions over the course of a group project. |
| Gradebook integration - When creating a course site, an instructor can elect to create a gradebook entry in the connected LMS. Then when evaluating a student's work, the instructor can click directly into the gradebook to enter the score. |
| Course copy - When a course is copied in an integrated LMS, the associated Campus Pack sites are also copied, so the course structure is maintained in the new course. |
| Accounts for external users - The service administrator can create accounts within Campus Pack for individuals who are outside of the institution. With a named account, an external user can—subject to the permissions granted to him—belong to courses and groups, develop his personal learning space, and otherwise participate Campus Pack like internal users. |
| Language packs - The choice of language pack is selected at the domain level, and language packs can be downloaded, modified, and uploaded into Campus Pack. The Language Pack feature can be used to fully implement a specific language, or to customize just a few words within a given language. |
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