Overview
Adventus Learning Management System v 2.0 is an e-learning
platform that caters to organizations to achieve their
competitive advantage with dynamic efficiency. The
objective of this product is to assist Corporations
and Institutions to incorporate a comprehensive learning
system in their training and education programs. It
has been designed to perform on the Web and on all
bandwidths.
The product
characterize systems that magnify:
- Integrated learning
- Content
- Administration
- Knowledge and performance tracking
The product is built on three-tier
architecture the database layer, the business layer
and the presentation layer - that is highly scalable
and flexible with an accelerated learning environment.
Adventus LMS
an award winning global product from India
- The system allows total flexibility in learning
for the user driven by content and
convenience.
- Adventus can deliver any content in any form
enterprise wide and across learning
communities.
- It is a broad based macro system that integrates
all resources and caters to micro
learning needs.
- It can play any electronic course whether web
based or not and architecturally extends itself
to all other enterprise wide people management
software.
- Adventus is developed by a strong experienced
team of Indian software developers.
- Adventus is benchmarked feature by feature against
contemporary global market
products of top 10 brands in LMS and e-learning
in the world.
- Adventus, developed on latest functional specifications
platform on a global scale, takes established
features and functions as standard and provides
features and flexibility in addition to the ones
globally accepted as norms.
- Adventus is robust and scalable and is a framework
of flexibility in global environment.
- Adventus is supported throughout its life cycle
in upgrades and future versions maximizing user
convenience.
- Adventus has the benefit of continuous research
and development back up by the original developers.
Features
Pre-Course Management
A module for the faculty and administrator
to build a courseware, schedule enrolments and various
other course related properties.
Course Creation
Adventus LMS offers one of the most
sophisticated and user-friendly Course Creation module
which allows users to create courses from simple to
complex hierarchical course structures. The unique
features enable users to rapidly create courses and
re-use content from other courses. These features
are unique to Adventus LMS, which no other system
in the world offers.
It allows users to break down their
course into modular structures giving great flexibility
to the user while creating a course or while making
rapid changes to the course.
All courses created in the Adventus
are built on small chunks of content known as Learning
Objects. These chunks of content can be re-used across
other courses reducing the effort to build courses
of similar nature.
There is a powerful import feature,
built in this module, which allows users to import
course content from various levels of various courses
allowing rapid development of courses.
One of the most exceptional features
of the Course Creation module in the Adventus LMS
is that it does not bind the user with any proprietary
Authoring tool as other Learning Management Systems
do. The authoring environment has been kept independent
of this system. Hence now through this system you
can create course content in common authoring tools
like Dreamweaver, Flash, Word, PowerPoint etc. The
Adventus LMS will allow you to assemble the various
types of content authored in different environments
and string them together into a single course.
The user-friendly interface makes
course structuring and sequencing a pleasure. What
more, content added can be viewed immediately through
the Preview option, allowing content authors to see
how the content would be displayed to the actual learner.
Course catalog
A sub module
of Pre-Course management that provides an interactive
list of types of courses available through the LMS.
Course
properties: This module handles all controls
and settings of the LMS courseware. Administrator
can also set automatic functions to perform the same
under different scenarios to handle course properties.
For example - Start date, End date, Exam date, Number
of courses etc.
Enrollment
and Registration: The system has complete facilities
like learner self-registration and approval. The system
provides options for the administrator to lay down
criteria for registration. It has a unique system
for creating different registration forms for different
courses. There is a provision for recording of payment
details of learners and automated mailing to the learners
on the approval or rejection of learners.
Instructor
tools: These are tools for instructional management.
It is an interactive communication tool to guide learners
from varied geographic locations.
Assessments
Adventus LMS provides
one of the most powerful Assessment engines in its
class. It gives the instructor a variety of options
to create different kinds of tests to assess learners
more effectively. Given below are few of its salient
features:
Assessments
at any level of the course: While authoring
the content, the instructors do not have to worry
about assessments. Once the course is created, Adventus
allows the instructor to add assessments at any level
of the course. In addition to this, it also allows
instructors to insert assessments within their content.
Interactive tests:
With the provision to add images and various kinds of
media files (like movie, sound, flash etc) with each
question, the instructors can create highly interactive
tests. Control
User Progress: The instructor can control the
progress of the users depending upon his performance.
Range
of Display options: A range of display options
are provided to help the faculty create different
types of tests. Options like Timed tests, un-timed
tests, loading of questions and options for display
of answers will help the faculty create different
types of tests as required by the course content.
Evaluation:
Adventus offers unique options for evaluation. Instructors
can create Objective tests that are evaluated automatically
by the system itself. The instructor can include even
negative marking for evaluation. Adventus is one the
few systems that offers online marking, where the
instructor can view the answer scripts of the student,
allot marks and give a personalized feedback to students.
There also a provision for the creation of offline
tests with the facility for recording the marks obtained
by the students in these tests.
Questions and Answer (Q
& A) Bank and Test Paper Bank: Adventus provides
a Q & A Bank where all the questions created by
the instructor are stored. The system also stores tests
created by the instructor in a test paper bank. Through
the import feature provided by the system, instructors
can create tests rapidly by importing questions from
the Q & A Bank or the test paper bank. Grade
book: Instructors can create a grade book,
which will maintain all student performances in various
tests. The faculty can decide which tests to include
in the grade book, the grading method to be used and
the information that has to be displayed in the grade
book.
Query Management
A platform to exchange information
between learner, administrator and faculty. A feature
to store collection of queries answered, in a Query
bank. A query can be related to any topic pertaining
to the organization.
Library
A central repository of digital content that can
be accessed for reference and online usage. A library
may contain articles, we blinks and Glossary that
can be tagged to every level of a course.
Community tools
A set of tools to facilitate communication
and interaction among peers to form communities online.
It helps sharing information and views related to
diverse interests. Some of the tools provided within
the system are Announcements, Chat, Bulletin Board
and Internal messaging with mass messaging capabilities.
Integration with external email can be optional.
Student tools
A set of tools to facilitate communication and data
capture tools to improve learners experience and knowledge
throughout the course.
Benefits
Our LMS will help Corporations
and Institutions create a learning portal that will
facilitate:
- A unified learning environment with diverse learners
and multiple courses.
- Complete functionality for addition of courses,
scheduling, curriculum planning,
integration of content, course delivery, testing
and assessment.
- Comprehensive reporting automated on demand with
personalized views for learners,
course managers and Administrators.
- Self-paced learning structure.
- Innumerable learning tools and learning aids to
supplement the course and training
material.
- Single-point entry, maintenance and assessment.
- Unbelievable economy - Base cost of this global
product is cheaper by at least 50%
compared to other brands.
- Need for customization is much less since latest
user needs are built-in as standard.
- Allows and encourages legacy content learning
saving cost of expensive courseware.
For Educational Institutions
Going
online was never so easy! The enormous demand
for education, globally, has opened new arenas in
virtually all industries. In effect, the impetus on
tertiary education in the 'need-expertise' environment
is highlighted. The current system cannot succeed
in meeting the demands of the new millennium without
incorporating the power of Internet-based distance
learning.
Our LMS will provide Educational
Institutions a unified Web-based learning platform
to:
- Administer
- Manage
- Deliver all courses offered at the Institution.
- Help reduce the complexities involved in implementing
and catering to a diverse learner
community.
- We aim to provide an end-to-end solution, starting
from design and deployment of courses, to the hosting
and maintenance of all Web-related functions.
For Corporations
Welcome to e-learning,
knowledge management and blended learning
The prime concern for any organization is to keep its
employees skills updated and customers satisfied. Our
online training programs will present a spectrum of
solutions, ranging from customized training management
systems (Technology), to off-the-shelf-material (Content).
Adventus provides Corporations
with:
- A comprehensive Web-based Learning Management
System (LMS).
- Delivery of instructor led training.
- Interactive live demonstrations and self-paced
learning that can be hosted on Corporate
Intranets, Extranets and the Internet.
- Adventus LMS provides easy navigation and conveniently
adapts to user's browsing psychology, for those
who are familiar with point-and-click functions
and such like.
Technical
Information
One of the most commonly used hardware and software
environments is sufficient for Adventus. Adventus
LMS 2.0 is implemented on Windows Platform. Having
a layered architecture consisting of the Database
layer, COM layer implemented in Visual Basic and the
presentation layer implemented using Active Server
Pages (ASP).
Server Requirements:
Hardware
- Intel Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or equivalent
- 1 GB of RAM (memory)
- 100 MB free Disk
- Back-up device and un-interruptible power supply
are highly recommended
Software
1. Platform:
The Adventus LMS is implemented on Windows platform,
and can be deployed on any of the following:
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2000 Professional Edition
- Windows ME
- Windows NT 4.0 (with all the service packs)
2. Database Server:
SQL Server 7.0/SQL Server 2000/Microsoft Data Engine
(MSDE)
3. Web Server:
Internet Information Services 4.0 (ships with Windows
NT Option Pack 4.0)/Internet Information Services
5.0 (ships with Windows 2000 Server/Windows 2000 Professional
Edition)
4. Other
software: Microsoft Data Access Components
(MDAC) 2.5 & MSXML 3.0
5. Internet Explorer 6.0 onwards
Client
Requirements:
In terms of hardware, the end user
would require a minimum Intel Pentium 300 MHZ or above;
at least 128 MB RAM (memory); Mouse or other pointing
device; VGA or compatible display.
In terms of software the users require Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6.0 SP1, Microsoft Office 2000 and above.
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