Features Checklist
Even a minimal Learning Management System should have three components: Class Management, Presenting Content and Evaluattion. In the list below "must haves" are in red.
Class Management
Simple role book (WikiCalc?)
Adjustable fields (names, checks, numbers, notes)
Calculate attendance %
Test and assignment result display
Running grade average
Any way to integrate with web-based email?
Calendar (built-in or widget)
Internal email (to communicate with class members without leaving the WIKI environment)
Creating and Presenting Content
All content must be password protected as an option on a page by page basis
Teacher created pages
Home pages for classes w/templates
Syllabus template (livelinks to chapters/units/weeks)
Exercises and question sets
Pages to display content (formats?)
Images
Video
Sound
Text docs and spreadsheets (Google Docs?)
Timed pages (not available before a certain date)
Teacher created pages students contribute to
Group/class project pages
Maps (Atlas?)
PhotoAlbums
Collections of links (tagging)
Chat (built-in or widget?)
White board (or is a WIKI just one big whiteboard?)(editing lock problem)
Built-in RSS aggregator
Built-in video aggregator
Student created pages
Student homepages
Collections of resources (URLs, images, sound files, videos)
Individual projects
In addition, we must incorporate a tagging system, so that both students and teachers can tag sites and resources they come across on the web at large, so that they will become immediately accessible within the WIKI
Evaluation
Testing modules
Weekly quizzes
Full final exams
M/C
Short answers (exact match)
Text field
Matching
Drag and drop
Templates for student portfolios
Built-in mechanism for feedback from teacher to students
Editing marks editor for marking up (annotating) student writing
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