Advantages
Cloud-Hosted
Our LMS is hosted in the Amazon cloud so there's nothing to download, install, or maintain. The system is designed with built-in redundancy to ensure a 99.99% uptime and zero document loss. We monitor our LMS system continuously and if there's an issue or critical bug, we fix it immediately.
Mobile
Access the full feature set of our site via mobile devices such as phone and tablets. Each type of device has its own customized interface, which can be accessed as a webapp via a browser (available now) or via a downloadable application (Spring 2013).
IntegrationsTo make your life easier, our cloud-hosted LMS integrates with a wide variety of systems, including Google Docs, LDAP, Calendars (iCal), Paypal, SMTP/POP3, Authorize.net, Stripe, SIS (Fall 2014), Google Apps (Fall 2014), and TurnItIn (Fall 2014). We regularly add new integrations based on user feedback. Our API can also be used to create custom integrations.
Gradebook
Full-featured, high performance gradebook with pop-up analytics, fill, import, and full undo. One-click access from the class dropdown. Full-window mode. Configurable display options, including ordering of students and assignments. Display of grading period summaries as well as overall grade. Export grades via CSV file or API.
Beautiful
Our user interface is beautiful, elegant, and intuitive, which keeps users happy and engaged.
Customizable
Our e-learning site is highly customizable, with options for configuring your logo, color scheme, URL, shortcuts, and fonts. You can even customize the site terminology or use our built-in color picker to create your own color scheme. We also support custom CSS and custom HTML for deep web customisation.
Class Catalog
Organize classes into a text-based or graphical catalog. Group classes by category, and order classes alphabetically or using drag and drop. Associate pictures and optional descriptions with each category. Publish the catalog to your portal for access by visitors. If e-commerce is enabled, sell classes directly from the catalog.
Collaboration
Our LMS has built-in support for wikis, blogs, chat rooms, groups, and forums. These collaboration tools used privately in a class or within a group whose members span classes. Teachers can enable or disable these options on a per-class basis. Our chat room transcripts are persistent so you can reference a conversation at a later time.
Instructor-Led and Self-Paced Classes
Support for instructor-led, blended, and self-paced classes. Display current classes via the dropdown menu. Highly configurable. Teach multiple sections of a class, and use our unique class sync feature to push changes from the master copy of a class to the others. Save classes into the library as templates for reuse. Support for co-teachers and time-based student deactivation. Enroll students via file import, the student roster, email, or enable self-enrollment via access codes.
E-Commerce
Associate a class with a price, then allow students to browse classes in the class catalog and purchase them using a credit card or Paypal. Track e-commerce activity in your administration dashboard. Our shopping cart supports multiple discount codes and multiple currencies, with Authorize.net, Stripe or Paypal as the payment gateway.
Analytics and Reporting
Create reports and charts of interesting data such as assignment grades, lesson progress, proficiency coverage, missing work, student activity, course status, completion status and resource usage. This data is also available via our API for use by third-party reporting packages. Custom ad-hoc reporting is coming Spring 2014.
Free plan for Schools/Universities
We provide a completely free LMS for accredited universities that award degrees and schools for children with up to 1000 students. The free plan does not expire, and includes unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, and access to our community support forum. It also includes a free 14-day trial of our premium features.
Low cost premium plans for Schools/Universities
Our low-cost premium plans for schools/universities provide a large number of additional features for power users that are not available in our free plan, such as analytics, certification, curricula/proficiencies, advanced grading options, extra assessment types, district/campus features, customization options, and access to our premium support forum.
Low cost, pay-as-you-go plans for Businesses
We provide low-cost, pay as you go plans for businesses that you can upgrade or downgrade at any time. You only pay based on the number of active student accounts per month, where an active student is one that accesses a course or group within that month.
Easy to use
We designed our system so that it's easy to use without referring to online help or guides. We regularly hear from users that have set up entire sites and created beautiful class materials without any help or training.
Reliable and Secure
We use advanced design techniques and state-of-the-art monitoring tools to ensure that our cloud-hosted LMS is reliable and secure. Since we launched in 2007, our system has had 99.99% uptime and no security breaches.
District/Campus support
Connect individual schools into a district/campus. Administer the district/campus with a single district administrator account. Share resources at the district level via our resources library. Cross-teach and cross-enroll between schools.
Dashboards
We provide dashboards for administrator, teachers, and students that provide a single-page view of the most important data. For example, the student dashboard includes tiles for each class that show the class picture, progress bar, pie chart of their grades, and current overall grade. The administrator dashboard displays tiles for important topics such as enrollments, resources, and accounts.
Curricula and Proficiencies
Create your own curricula using our curriculum builder, or use the preloaded US common core standards. Share curricula using our resources library. Align content and assessments with proficiencies in a curriculum, then see a coverage analysis to see how well your class covers the curriculum. Track student progress on a proficiency basis and get a detailed view of how students are understanding the concepts.
Certification
Create certificates using our certicate builder. Share certificates using our resources library. Associate a certificate with a PDF version that can be downloaded and printed. Automatically or manually award certificates of completion. Set expiration dates for certificates. Set prerequisite certificates for a class.
Lesson authoring and navigation
Create rich, engaging lessons without any technical knowledge using our content authoring tools. Upload and embed any kind of media, including audio, video, powerpoints, office documents, and Google Docs. Reorder lessons and their sections using drag and drop. Page through sections in a lesson using simple built-in navigation. Display a table of contents in the navigation bar to indicate your current position. Track your last position in the lesson so you can instantly return later. Track lesson progress and time spent in each lesson for the dashboard and rich analytics.
Our LMS is hosted in the Amazon cloud so there's nothing to download, install, or maintain. The system is designed with built-in redundancy to ensure a 99.99% uptime and zero document loss. We monitor our LMS system continuously and if there's an issue or critical bug, we fix it immediately.
Mobile
Access the full feature set of our site via mobile devices such as phone and tablets. Each type of device has its own customized interface, which can be accessed as a webapp via a browser (available now) or via a downloadable application (Spring 2013).
IntegrationsTo make your life easier, our cloud-hosted LMS integrates with a wide variety of systems, including Google Docs, LDAP, Calendars (iCal), Paypal, SMTP/POP3, Authorize.net, Stripe, SIS (Fall 2014), Google Apps (Fall 2014), and TurnItIn (Fall 2014). We regularly add new integrations based on user feedback. Our API can also be used to create custom integrations.
Gradebook
Full-featured, high performance gradebook with pop-up analytics, fill, import, and full undo. One-click access from the class dropdown. Full-window mode. Configurable display options, including ordering of students and assignments. Display of grading period summaries as well as overall grade. Export grades via CSV file or API.
Beautiful
Our user interface is beautiful, elegant, and intuitive, which keeps users happy and engaged.
Customizable
Our e-learning site is highly customizable, with options for configuring your logo, color scheme, URL, shortcuts, and fonts. You can even customize the site terminology or use our built-in color picker to create your own color scheme. We also support custom CSS and custom HTML for deep web customisation.
Class Catalog
Organize classes into a text-based or graphical catalog. Group classes by category, and order classes alphabetically or using drag and drop. Associate pictures and optional descriptions with each category. Publish the catalog to your portal for access by visitors. If e-commerce is enabled, sell classes directly from the catalog.
Collaboration
Our LMS has built-in support for wikis, blogs, chat rooms, groups, and forums. These collaboration tools used privately in a class or within a group whose members span classes. Teachers can enable or disable these options on a per-class basis. Our chat room transcripts are persistent so you can reference a conversation at a later time.
Instructor-Led and Self-Paced Classes
Support for instructor-led, blended, and self-paced classes. Display current classes via the dropdown menu. Highly configurable. Teach multiple sections of a class, and use our unique class sync feature to push changes from the master copy of a class to the others. Save classes into the library as templates for reuse. Support for co-teachers and time-based student deactivation. Enroll students via file import, the student roster, email, or enable self-enrollment via access codes.
E-Commerce
Associate a class with a price, then allow students to browse classes in the class catalog and purchase them using a credit card or Paypal. Track e-commerce activity in your administration dashboard. Our shopping cart supports multiple discount codes and multiple currencies, with Authorize.net, Stripe or Paypal as the payment gateway.
Analytics and Reporting
Create reports and charts of interesting data such as assignment grades, lesson progress, proficiency coverage, missing work, student activity, course status, completion status and resource usage. This data is also available via our API for use by third-party reporting packages. Custom ad-hoc reporting is coming Spring 2014.
Free plan for Schools/Universities
We provide a completely free LMS for accredited universities that award degrees and schools for children with up to 1000 students. The free plan does not expire, and includes unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, and access to our community support forum. It also includes a free 14-day trial of our premium features.
Low cost premium plans for Schools/Universities
Our low-cost premium plans for schools/universities provide a large number of additional features for power users that are not available in our free plan, such as analytics, certification, curricula/proficiencies, advanced grading options, extra assessment types, district/campus features, customization options, and access to our premium support forum.
Low cost, pay-as-you-go plans for Businesses
We provide low-cost, pay as you go plans for businesses that you can upgrade or downgrade at any time. You only pay based on the number of active student accounts per month, where an active student is one that accesses a course or group within that month.
Easy to use
We designed our system so that it's easy to use without referring to online help or guides. We regularly hear from users that have set up entire sites and created beautiful class materials without any help or training.
Reliable and Secure
We use advanced design techniques and state-of-the-art monitoring tools to ensure that our cloud-hosted LMS is reliable and secure. Since we launched in 2007, our system has had 99.99% uptime and no security breaches.
District/Campus support
Connect individual schools into a district/campus. Administer the district/campus with a single district administrator account. Share resources at the district level via our resources library. Cross-teach and cross-enroll between schools.
Dashboards
We provide dashboards for administrator, teachers, and students that provide a single-page view of the most important data. For example, the student dashboard includes tiles for each class that show the class picture, progress bar, pie chart of their grades, and current overall grade. The administrator dashboard displays tiles for important topics such as enrollments, resources, and accounts.
Curricula and Proficiencies
Create your own curricula using our curriculum builder, or use the preloaded US common core standards. Share curricula using our resources library. Align content and assessments with proficiencies in a curriculum, then see a coverage analysis to see how well your class covers the curriculum. Track student progress on a proficiency basis and get a detailed view of how students are understanding the concepts.
Certification
Create certificates using our certicate builder. Share certificates using our resources library. Associate a certificate with a PDF version that can be downloaded and printed. Automatically or manually award certificates of completion. Set expiration dates for certificates. Set prerequisite certificates for a class.
Lesson authoring and navigation
Create rich, engaging lessons without any technical knowledge using our content authoring tools. Upload and embed any kind of media, including audio, video, powerpoints, office documents, and Google Docs. Reorder lessons and their sections using drag and drop. Page through sections in a lesson using simple built-in navigation. Display a table of contents in the navigation bar to indicate your current position. Track your last position in the lesson so you can instantly return later. Track lesson progress and time spent in each lesson for the dashboard and rich analytics.