Course Management System 
—Task Force—

REQUIRED FEATURES LIST

1. Administrator
   • Low Maintenance
   • Growth Scalability
   • Multi-Campus
   • Multiple Brands
   • Automatic Knowledge Base & Help Desk
   • Good Support Services, Test License
   • Request specific modification of System
   • system reporting
   • 24/7 vendor support with escalation
   • vendor build partnership
   • LDAP Authentication, server redundancy
   • SCORM
   • integrate with SIS, security
   • Open source APIs for 3^rd party software
   • tools for ADA
   • Internet standard
   • set up for outside organization
   • different levels of guest access and approval
   • Fast loading non FAT
   • Browser & OS independence
   • tool force ADA compliance
   • search tool in course
   • course maintenance
   • asynchronous/synchronous

2. Grade Book
   • Easy to use
   • Students and TA see grades
   • Grading Groups
   • Customizable Individual grading schema
   • Grade changes & changes of assignments tracking
   • Photo rosters
   • Drop/Add and grades
   • Editing Grade formulas

3. Assignments
   • Assignment wizard
   • timed release course materials
   • build assessment tied to assignment
   • integrated assessment
   • tie to assignment or course
   • course evaluations; survey
   • Plagiarism checking

4. Course Management
   • Multi Folder Structure in Drop Box
   • compile and print course materials
   • Content for multi sections in one place
   • Customizable interface look & feel in multiple editors
   • blogging and podcasting
   • integrated calendar (with course syllabus)
   • allow for independent course term
   • multiple schedules
   • delayed group release
   • copyright checker
   • creativity tools, integrated specialty fonts
   • foreign language support
   • robust testing
   • essay analysis in grading
   • easy end user usability
   • context-sensitive help
   • simple navigation, a single interface
   • training ability
   • tutorials
   • automatic conversion of existing course site
   • portfolio feature
   • allow for high-interactivity
   • branching & remediation
   • [CMS] tools don’t drive pedagogy
   • Allow instructor flexibility
   • CMS doesn’t interfere with other programs
   • change management on documents
   • what’s new and announcement
   • bookmark
   • notes for students
   • easily put students into groups

5. Email
   • Flexible email access
   • mail link
   • E-mail grammar & spelling
   • use without logging in

6. Discussion
   • Well organized and management of discussion board
   • Discussion built-in archive
   • video streaming
   • web conference (Skype)

7. Student Tracking
   • Keep track of work completed-not completed
   • Reminders for students on tasks uncompleted
   • offline run-time engine
   • sophisticated student tracking
   • user logging

8. File Exchange
   • individual and group file space
   • compatible with popular software
   • flat file as well as dynamic content

9. Testing/Quizzes
   • integrated print blocking of quizzes and exams
   • Boolean operations in exam tool
   • secure testing
   • integrity
   • automatic testing & scoring
   • Multiple choice
   • Matching
   • Essay
   • Short Answer
   • Numerical

10. Other
    • Ability for peer review
    • Ability to plug in tools already supported
    • custom archived access
    • Setup for outside organization/non-credit groups
    • Learning object repository
    • Demo lesson for marketing purposes
    • communication space
    • Demo sync
    • broken link detector