aMentor Benefits

aMentor aligns Questions with State Standards, deploys tests, capture results and manages the vital information needed to make data-driven decisions and help meet the requirements of NCLB. You can purchase or create curriculum. 

aMentor is flexible, extensible, scalable, modular and cost effective. Your students can access courses, complete assignments, take quizzes and communicate with mentors and classmates. Just click on the link and begin in school, at home anywhere, anytime.

• Bundled Help: New in 1.5! Teacher documentation is linked from each section.
• SCORM Run-Time Environment & SCO Manager: New in 1.5!  Add prepackaged, interactive, inter operable content to your courses. Initial support for SCORM 1.2 LMS-RTE3, with additional SCORM support coming.

Mentors Can Teach Students in Class or Anywhere Anytime

•            Assignment Module  •              Quiz Module  •              Forum Module  •              Chat Module  •              Easy  To Use  •             Management Module   •              Flexibility              •              Roles Based Access •           User Defined Glossary

Mentors can Teach Students Anywhere, Anytime 

• Accessibility: aMentor 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.
•  aMentor provides a quick, easy, and inexpensive hosted software tool which allows novice users to distribute curriculum within minutes.
•  Students can access the online courses anywhere so long as they have Internet access!

aMentor LCMS

aMentor was designed using sound Pedagogical Principals and promotes a Social Constructionist Pedagogy including Collaboration, Activities and Critical Reflection. a Mentor is suitable for;

 ·        Face to face teaching

 ·        Virtual Schools

 ·        Universities

 ·        Home School

 ·        Adult Education

 ·        Summer School

 ·        Special Needs

 ·        Foreign Exchange Students

Assignment Module  

• Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
• Adaptive Navigation: Students can move through aMentor 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.
• Students can upload their assignments in any file format to the server and they are date-stamped.
• Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly to the Mentor.
• Mentor feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and notification is mailed out.
• The Mentor can choose to allow resubmission of assignments

Quiz Module

• Mentors can define a pool of questions for re-use in different quizzes. 

• Questions can be stored in categories for easy access and can be "published" to make them accessible from any online course on the site. 

• Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are modified. 

• Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not available. 

• At the Mentor's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can show feedback and or correct answers. 

• Quiz questions and quiz answers can be randomized to reduce cheating. 

• Questions support multimedia including flash animation, video and sound files. 

• Questions can be imported from external text files or just cut and paste. 

• Attempts can be cumulative, if desired, and finished over several sessions. 

• Quiz Module Supports The Following Question Types: 

• Multiple-choice questions with single or multiple answers
• Short Answer questions (words or phrases)
• True-False questions
• Fill in the Blank
• Matching questions
• Random questions
• Numerical questions with allowable ranges
• Embedded-answer questions have answers within passages of text

   Feedback can be provided to the student of their results compared to the class averages

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Forum Module 

• Different types of forums are available, such as Mentor-only, online course news, open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.
• All postings have the authors’ photo attached.
• Individual forums can be subscribed to by each student so that copies are forwarded via email, or the Mentor can force subscription for all.
• Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums by the Mentor.
• Attached images are shown in line.
• Work groups: When the ACollab 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.

Chat Module 

• Allows smooth, synchronous text interaction.
• Includes profile pictures in the chat window.
• Supports URL s, smilies, embedded HTML, images and more.
• All sessions are logged for later viewing and can be made available to students.  

Easy to Use

We've made aMentor so simple to use that;

• No special programming is necessary to develop your online courses.
• If you can use a word processor then you can start developing your own online courses right away.  

Management Module 

• A full Mentor has full control over all settings for the online course, including restricting other Mentors.
• Choice of online course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focused social format.
• A flexible array of online course activities include: Forums, Quizzes, Resources, Surveys, Assignments, Chats and Workshops.
• Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the aMentor home page - helps give sense of community.
• Text entry areas can be edited using an embedded editor.
• All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page, sent to our online grade book or downloaded as a spreadsheet or text file.
• Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module as well as a detailed "story" of each student’s involvement including postings on one page.
• Mail integration - copies of forum posts, Mentor feedback can be mailed in HTML or plain text.
• Custom scales - Mentors can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments.
• Online courses can be packaged as a single zip file using the Backup function. These can be restored on any server.  

Flexibility 

• Online Course pages can be designed with aMentor Authoring Software or editors such as Dreamweaver™ or Hot Metal™, imported into aMentor for student access. 

• The finished online courses can be simplistic in design or can include motion graphics, flash animations, sound, and video. It's limited only by your creativity!

User-Defined Glossary 

Mentors can create a User-defined glossary to assist students while taking online courses.  

Roles Based Access 

Student, Mentor, Administrator, and much more!  With unique groups and user access, Mentors have total control over their online course, who has access and what they are allowed to see and do! 

Powerful Learning Content Management System

• aMentor Scales from a Single Mentor Site to a 40,000 Student University
• aMentor supports Windows, MAC, Linux and Unix Operating Systems.
• Most browsers are supported.

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