aMentor Data Sheet

• Accessibility: a Mentor was designed with accessibility as a priority. A wide range of features ensure assistive technology users can participate fully in student, mentor, and administrative activities.
• My Courses: Mentors and students can manage the a Mentor courses they teach and/or are enrolled in.
• Adaptive Navigation: Students can move through a Mentor content using global, hierarchical, or sequential navigation tools. Navigation elements can be displayed as text, icons, or both text and icons, and they can be hidden to simplify the environment.
• Work Groups: When the Collaboration Module is installed on an aMentor system, students can collaborate with others on course projects, communicate as a group with the forums and chat, share resources using their group library, schedule activities with the events calendar, and work together on project documents through the drafting room. Exercises or assignments can be submitted to the group leader, or course mentor.
• Feedback: Following an action (such as saving preference settings, or posting a message), feedback is given on the status of the operation. This could be a success message, warnings to consider, or errors to fix.
• Preference Settings: Students can control aMentor features and the theme a Mentor is presented in.
• Communication Tools: Students can communicate with others using a Mentor's private mail, the discussion forums, the chat rooms, or the "User's Online" tool. Threads and messages can be sorted in a variety of ways. Students can communicate with those in other courses through shared forum, or a community forum. Subscribe to forums or topic threads to have forum messages sent by email.
• Content Package Viewer: Students can export content from aMentor as Content Packages that can be viewed off line in the accompanying viewer.
• Content Tracker: Students can keep track of the content pages they have visited.
• Test Manager: Students can take tests, review test results, and keep track of their scores.
• Glossary: Words and phrases added to the glossary by the mentor can be accessed from terms embedded within content pages, or viewed alphabetically in their entirety using the Glossary tool.
• Links Database: Each course has a tool for collecting links to course related Web-based information. Both students and Mentors can add links. Mentors can also manage them.
• Course Search: A search engine allows students to search course content. Search for courses in the course catalog. 

• Bundled Help: New in 1.5.2! Mentor documentation is linked from each section.
• SCORM Run-Time Environment & SCO Manager: New in 1.5! Thanks to Matthai Kurian and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich for creating an aMentor SCORM run-time environment (RTE) and SCO package manager. Add prepackaged, interactive, inter operable content to your courses. Initial support for SCORM 1.2 LMS-RTE3, with additional SCORM support coming.
• Course Tool Preferences: New in 1.5! Mentors can choose from the available course tools and menu modules, selecting only those that are used in a particular course. Optionally display tools in the main navigation bar, or link them into the course home page for quick access.
• Content Usage: New in 1.5! Individual usage statistics can be reviewed to identify gaps in content coverage and the learning tendencies of each student.
• Learning Tools: Mentors have access to all the learning tools that are available to students. Help boxes are present throughout a newly created a Mentor course to assist novice Mentors with content development and course configuration. Full mentor documentation is also available in the aMentor How-To Course. Units of aMentor How-To can be imported and modified to create custom documentation for a course.
• Content Editor: Mentors can create content in HTML or plain text. This content can be imported from a local editor, or edited directly on line. Release dates can be set to control when content is viewable to students. Content pages can be moved to different locations within a course. Related pages can be linked to content as references or relevant information. Use the File Manager while creating content. Click on the Insert button next to a file in the file manager to embed a link or an image in a page while authoring content.
• Visual Editor: An implementation of the html JavaScript WYSIWYG editor is available as an extension of the Content Editor so content creators can format course materials without knowing any HTML.
• IMS/SCORM Content Packaging: Mentors can export content from aMentor as IMS/SCORM conformant Content Packages that can be viewed off line in the accompanying viewer, or imported into aMentor or another conformant e-learning system. Entire courses or individual course units can be packaged for viewing or redistribution. Content from other compliant systems can be imported into aMentor. Import and export complex content such as Java applets, Flash content, and other embedded programmed objects.
• Learning Objects Repository: for course related materials. Download content packages from the repository for viewing, or import them directly into aMentor. Enter a URL to a content package anywhere on the Web, and import it into your course. Export content from aMentor into the repository,  log into the repository to author new content, add to, or enhance existing content.

 Backup Manager: The entire content and structure of a course can be backed up and stored on the a Mentor server, or downloaded and saves to your local computer. Create a copy of a course as a master for future sessions, or move a course to a new location.

• News & Announcements: Mentors can post messages to the course Home Page to guide students through the course. News can be used for weekly introductions, announcing important dates, or posting critical information. The announcements page is always the first page a student visits when they log into a course. A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed can be turned on to display course announcements on other Web sites.
• File Manager: Mentors can upload and manage course related files. Directories can be created to sort files; zip archives can be uploaded and unpacked. A pop up file manager can be opened alongside the Content Editor or test question editor. Course files can be easily linked into content pages or test items as they are being created. Text or HTML files can be created or edited on line. Rename files, or batch move or delete files.
• Test Manager: Mentors can create tests with multiple choice, true/false, Likert, and a number of open ended question types. M/C and T/F questions are marked automatically. A test release window can be created to make a test available for a certain period, feedback can be customized, and test results can be archived. Self-marking tests can be created to provide students with instant feedback. Create surveys and link them to the course home page. Select from a pool of questions to generate random question quizzes. Assign tests to groups of students. Add questions to a Question Database, then select questions from the database to assemble a test or quiz. Create image based test items, and arrange items horizontally or vertically.
• Polls: Mentors can create one question polls to quickly gather student opinions.
• Forums: Mentors can create and manage multiple forums for each of their courses. Messages can be edited, deleted, locked from reading and/or replying, and "stuck" to the top of a thread list if a message is important. Administrators can create forums shared across multiple courses. Request a shared forum to allow students in all your courses to communicate with each other. Subscribe to forums, or to topic threads to have messages sent by email.
• Course Properties: Mentors can view course login statistics, edit course properties, and send course-wide email messages. A default display language can be set for each course. Assign a course as public, protected, or private, or hide a course while it is being developed. Control student access to content packaging. Turn on an RSS feed for course announcements, and display them on other Web sites.
• Enrollment Manager: Mentors may import a comma separated list of students to enroll in their courses, or export an enrollment list for staff keeping. Create an enrollment list on line to add new students to a course. Automatically generate login names and passwords for students and send them by email when a student is enrolled in a course. Assign students as Alumni so they can participate in discussions for future course sessions. Create groups of students and assign different tests or quizzes to different groups.
• Privileges: Through the Enrollment Manager, Mentors can assign students access to various mentor tools, creating teaching assistants or co-Mentors. 

• Work Groups: With the Collaboration Module add-on, Mentors can create work groups for course projects, assignments, file sharing, and group communication. Group leaders can be assigned to manage group administrative activities. Collaboration Module can be used for a variety of purposes: from managing assignment submissions, distributing course files, and scheduling activities, to multi-group projects, collaborative document authoring, and group or course file sharing. Embed Collaboration Module into aMentor, or have it open in a new window to participate in course group activities.

• Multiple Administrators: New in 1.5! Create multiple administrator accounts assigning specific privileges to each.
• Master Student List: New in 1.5! Require newly created student accounts to be authenticated against a custom imported student ID/PIN paired list.
• General Statistics: View system usage statistics.
• Secure Course Content: Secure course content directory to prevent unauthorized access to course files.
• mentor Request: Review requesting Mentors' personal information, and assign mentor status so they may create courses. Administrators are informed by email when new requests are made.
• User Manager: Users on a system can be sorted, personal information can be viewed, and access privileges can be modified. Send announcements to all users on an aMentor system, or to students, or to Mentors.
• Course Manager: Much like the User Manager, courses on a system can be sorted, their properties modified, and their Mentors managed. Create new courses and assign a mentor. Use course backups to generate initial content for a new course. Create shared forums for select courses, or create a community forum for all courses.
• Backup Manager: Generate backups of courses to create master copies. Download backups for safe keeping or to move courses to another aMentor server. Use backups to generate new courses.
• Course Categories: The aMentor course browser includes a course category browser, so courses can be sorted into a custom defined set of categories, perhaps by department or topic or grade level, for example. Themes can be assigned to course categories so all courses within a category look the same.
• Language Manager: Import language packs directly into aMentor. Once imported, edit languages as needed. Create an aMentor Language Pack by exporting the language from your aMentor system. Make the language pack available to others, and submit it to the aMentor as an attachment, so others can use and continue to maintain the language.

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