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metacoon - system & features
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server side requirements
- plattform: is based on a LAMP system (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) it has been optimized for larger numbers of users (3300 students an teachers use a metacoon system at the University of Jena)
- the authoring tools require the installation of Tomcat and Cocoon in order to render XML to HTML and PDF
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client side requirements (pc of the user/author)
- learners only need a web browser metacoon has been optimized for a solution of min. 1024x768 on the following browsers: : MS Internet Explorer 6.0+, Netscape 6.0+, Mozilla 1.5+, Mozilla Firebird 0.7+ and Firefox 0.8+ (recommended for mac users), Opera 7.5.4+
- please activate java script
- the authoring tools are java applets
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features & screenshots: |
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- my rooms (Are there any news for rooms that I am enrolled to? Are there other users in those rooms at the moment?)
- enrolment for rooms (rooms represent lectures, courses or seminars)
- news on the platform (new courses/rooms, tasks, learning materials, bulletins, users…)
- personal and group calendar
- task management including assignment distribution and status display
- project management, links on entries
- file manager (home directory for each user, group directories)
- visual directory structure, check/uncheck or lock files and folders, version management
- picture gallery (use it to store any kind of photos (e.g. shots of your whiteboard during presence teachings) link those images to any kind of entry on the platform (e.g. course descriptions, personal profiles…)
- take notes
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| learning & learning material: |
- learning material pool with a search function and a describing page for each item
- all learning materials displayable in a webbrowser can be managed by metacoon this includes: PDF, power point documents, Word documents, videos, animations, hypertext learning material, ...
- SCORM courses can be imported
- Scorm Runtime Environment
- metacoon Hypertext-learning materials feature a search functionality and related links to other chapters within a course, a PDF/print functionlity, they can contain all media types mentioned above. In addition you can add reference books and bibliogrphies.
- Central List of required/recommended literature – entries can be subscribed for each course
- Reference books (can be included in learning materials): glossary, products and standards, persons, institutions, ... (adaptable)
- Turn in assignments (privacy is guaranteed: visability can be set up by the roomowner )
- Feedback on assignments (privacy is guaranteed)
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| cooperative authoring / wiki |
- flexible rights management for groups of authors
- books of reference (see above)
- central literature management
- course weblinks and private link management
- use the information/research system of your library/division
- produce audio and video presentations
- produce hypermedia learning material using OpenOffice and our transformer plugin - books of reference, literature lists and all common types of media can be integrated (freeware)
- quizzes and test according to the QTI standard can be created using the elQuest software developed by the TU Chemnitz (Freeware)
- use the course builder to compile courses from existing hypertext learning material (the index data structure of a course complies with the standards of the SCORM Manifest)
- render appealing HTML or PDF learning material from your XML data (appearance of the courses can be adapted to your corporate design)
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| communication und individual settings
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Global communication tools (for the whole platform)
- address book with email functionality
- instant messages / Messenger (global)
the following communication tools can be set for each course/room
- list of all online users for each room with a messenger functionality
- business cards
- pin boards (for definable topics)
- forums
- chat rooms
- mailing lists for groups
- group presentations with list of members
settings
- nickname und icon
- Business card & adress
- User name, passwort, system settings
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| administration - platform & web-CM |
Room/course administration
- Platform administration can be assigned to room administrators (designated course admins) with appropriate rights for their rooms
- Authorise/reject new plaform users
- Authorize/reject users for rooms/courses
- Check user logins and login history (e.g. in cases of misuse)
- Group administration (create new groups, assign users)
- Group access rights
- Room administration (change the appearance of your room: logo, description…)
- Create a seminar inside a room (in the case a teacher offers more than one course inside one room).
- Set access restrictions
- Authorize/reject users for restricted seminars
- Maintain the external homepage for each room with our web cms
plattform-administration
- All functions mentioned above
- Authorisation of new room admins (set their group rights)
- Setup/maintain/erase learning rooms
- Maintenance of catalogues an platform texts (e.g.. automatic mails for the user enrolment)
- Maintainance of the external website of the plattform - Web-CMS
Maintainance of the external websites
- Adapt menu items
- Edit websites (WYSIWYG editor)
- angezeigte Adressen editieren, freischalten
- administer list of links
- administer list of visible rooms/courses
- administer list of visible projects
system administration
- server directories
- system parameters
- file manager options
- system profiles
- create / erase tools (components) and layouts
- write your own help texts (e.g. for intranet usage)
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- Erfurt, UAS
- Erfurt, University
- Ilmenau, Tech
- Ilmenau, Tech - WilabBW
- Jena, UAS
- Jena, University
- Niederrhein, University
- Nordhausen, UAS
- Schmalkalden, UAS
- Weimar, Conservatory.
- Weimar, Bauhaus-Univ.
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