Learning Management (LMS)

Introduction

Service provides a set of tools to supplement a course's teaching or provide a single online-course experience.

Capabilities and Key Features

• Teaching
• Document management for assignments and course materials
• Quizzes and Exams
• Communication and collaboration tools such as announcements, blogs, and wikis
• Electronic gradebook
• Auto-creation and auto-enrollment of courses
• Turnitin Originality Checking
  • The Turnitin Originality Checking allows instructors to compare student papers against a database composed of millions of articles, books, Internet sites, and previously submitted student papers. This application provides instructors with additional tools to help students revise their papers, cite source material properly, evaluate their work, and reduce plagiarism

Benefits

• Provide Learning Experience
• Provide lessons and electronic content for a course
• Extend course beyond the physical classroom -- allowing access anytime, anywhere
• Enable access to the instructor and peers
• Provide analytical data about student academic experience and progress
• Submit mid-term and final grades to the gradebook of record
• Maintain course roster automatically

Related Technologies

• Canvas
• myMiami
• Cascade
• Course List and Evaluations

Who may use it?

• All students, faculty, staff, and some university guests