1. is a comprehensive
Education Management System and
a collaborative learning
environment.

2. At , you can do all your school-
related work from building personal and
group websites to managing your courses,
eportfolios, academic communities, and
much more.

3. Free course and learning management
system to manage your classes,
coursework, grades and
communications from a single location.
It's quick to setup, easy to use, secure
and includes a number of high-quality,
fully-integrated tools. Access your
courses from anywhere, anytime. Create
your courses and invite your students
anytime!

4. Use rubrics to communicate expectations
with students and to standardize
assessment. The free rubrics building and
assessment tool helps you build simple to
complex rubrics effortlessly. The
Click2GradeTM technology helps you grade
students directly from the gradebook with
just a few mouse clicks. Scores are
calculated automatically and
communicated with students in great
details. Build your free rubrics and start
grading almost immediately.

5. Build a complete, multi-page website for
yourself, your club or your academic group.
All websites are packed with tools for
online publishing, communication and
collaboration, organization of content, and
member management. The personal and
group websites are free. Build your free
website today.

6. Build multiple ePortfolios to track and
showcase student work. Create learning
portfolios for reflective assignments,
teacher-student engagement, evaluation,
peer-review, authentic assessments and
more.
Create career ePortfolios that you can
keep years after schools. The ePortfolios
are free and are tightly integrated with the
course management system allowing for a
higher level of communication,
mentorship, and assessment.

7. The tools are designed to be easy-to-use, quick to set-up and
highly secure.
•Building multimedia class portals/websites
•Adding students automatically or manually
•Automatic building of the roster
•Copying and distributing coursework and assignments across
multiple classes
•Email alerts for reminding upcoming tasks
•Collecting assignments using different submission settings
•Assigning and collecting multiple ePortfolios
•Managing and sharing documents and files using document
center

8. •Grading students using gradebook complete with statistics and
interactive graphs
•Organizing questions in the test bank
•Building quizzes for online assessment
•Using rubrics for communicating expectations and quickly assessing
student work
•Building teams with dedicated team menus
•Using threaded and hybrid class communication and messaging tools to
send messages to any combinations of recipients
•Managing events and assignment deadlines using Calendar complete
with automatic synchronization with students calendars
•Tracking to-do items
•Networking with others through eCommunities
•Bookmarking favorite items
•Many navigation shortcuts and more.

9. Best of all, educators, students and
academic groups can use for free.

10. Presentation by
John Courage
Thomas Jefferson High School
San Antonio, Texas
For Walden University
New and Emerging Technologies
(EDUC - 6715I - 2)