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BigGyan Cloud eLearning for Coaching Institutes
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- Build WebPresence
- Integrated approach of teaching – Online course management-
- Superior Instruction
- 24X7 support to students
- Tracking Student Performance
- Parent Portal
- BigGyan Services
- Environment Friendly
Building WebPresence
Internet has emerged an important platform for marketing. It is inevitable that coaching institutes need to build their online presence as more and more parents and students are going to internet to obtain information related to career. However, the rules of creating web presence are different from the ones that work in normal world. Internet is all about starting early and targeting right. The early you start more websites will link to your website making your website more relevant, which makes the website appear higher in search results of search engines like Google. What good is a website which does not have considerable number of visitors? Further, it is extremely important to build online presence professionally. A badly designed website may do more damage than good. BigGyan helps you create web presence professionally which is directly targeted to your target audience.
Integrated approach to teaching – Online course management
BigGyan reduces work of teachers and administrators by helping them manage various aspects of courses with cool online tools. BigGyan enables teachers to be creative and use innovative teaching methodologies, allowing them to make learning fun for students. Teachers can minimize time spent to perform admin chores for courses.
- Assignments
- Online Attendance
- Online Gradebook
- Database
- Online Quizzes
Assignments
Teachers can collect assignments from students online, review it and provide feedback including grades. The grades automatically are fed into online Gradebook of the students. Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips. Assignments do not necessarily have to consist of file uploads; teachers can ask students to type directly into online text editor available in BigGyan.
Online Attendance
The module allows teachers to mark attendance of students. The grade corresponding to attendance is included into the students Gradebook automatically. Students can also view their attendance record. The attendance records can be exported into MS Excel spreadsheet format for record purposes.
Online Gradebook
BigGyan offers a very flexible Gradebook, which can be used to fit any specific requirements. Administrators and teachers can change the ways in which grades are calculated, aggregated and displayed, as well as means to change the grades manually. Various types of reports can be generated. Further, grades can be exported to MS Excel spreadsheet, OpenDocument spreadsheet, plain text file or XML file for record purposes.
Database
Teachers can build searchable repositories. A common use of this module is for storing past exam papers, activities for students to do or print out, or collections of students’ work.
Online Quizzes
BigGyan offers a powerful tool for conducting online quizzes. Teachers can design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types (multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions etc.). These questions are kept in the course Question bank and can be re-used within courses and between courses. Quizzes can allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers. BigGyan also allows you to shuffle questions within quizzes and to shuffle choices in multiple-choice questions. Even randomly generated quizzes from pools of questions.
When teacher want to prepare an offline exam, they can just pull out questions from the question bank and printout the quiz.
Superior Instruction
Multimedia content
Teachers can include multimedia content – videos, interactive animations, presentations (ppt), and images to enhance their course curriculum and make learning for their students more fun. BigGyan offers tools to use any type of content with their courses.
Online Test Series
Teachers can provide online test series to their students using BigGyan. The tests can be designed such that all students have to take online test during a specific time period. BigGyan can automatically check answers submitted for objective type questions. The grades go directly to online GradeBook. Further, automatic feedback can be provided for wrong answers.
BigGyan Search
BigGyan search engine was created using Google Search Technology. Internet is filled up with low quality content. Nobody wants low quality content especially when it is being used for education purposes. BigGyan search provides only good quality content. It also groups content into lecture notes, videos, presentations, pdfs, tests, quizzes. So you can quickly reach the content you are looking for.
Rapid Course Development
With web 2.0, lot of websites have come up where people share various types of content. Ex. YouTube, Teachertube, Metacafe, Vimeo for videos; Slideshare for presentations; Scribd, Docstoc, Issuu for documents, Odeo for audio. Teachers can search for content on these sites using BigGyan Search and easily include the relevant content in their course.
24X7 support to students
Online Course Material
The entire course curriculum (lectures given by teachers, online quizzes, assignments) is stored online. Students have 24X7 access to the content. This is especially useful during exams, as students do not have to worry about lost notes, assignments. They can feel safe that they all the content. This is part of “No Child Left Behind Policy” as envisioned by BigGyan.
More Interaction
Students have support of their teachers and peers as and when they require it. They can do group activities online, discuss assignments online, share and solve problems during exam preparation.
- Forums
- Chats
- Group activities
Special Classes
Teachers can conduct extra classes using online conference (Dimdim – Web Meetings). The extra classes conducted during exams could help notch up student’s performance.
Tracking Student Performance
BigGyan provides teachers with access to finer details regarding student’s efforts and performance. It allows teachers to monitor and analyze students’ performance from a much closer perspective. Teacher’s can provide feedback which is much more relevant and beneficial to the students.
Parent Portal
BigGyan offers tools to get the parents more involved in their child’s education experience. Parents can monitor their child’s progress through the BigGyan Parents’ Portal.
The Parent Portal gives parents and guardians access to selected content from their children’s school BigGyan. Parents will be able to browse sections that the school wishes to share with its parents. Content could include upcoming events, discussion boards, and personal material related solely to their child. Parents can also communication with teachers using forums, chats and emails included in BigGyan.
BigGyan Services
BigGyan provides professional services to help you implement eLearning at your institute. Our trained professional staff is equipped to support all our client’s requirements. Institutes may not employ additional IT staff for activities surrounding BigGyan eLearning.
BigGyan provides following services:
- Fully Maintained Installation
- Fail-safe Data Backup
- Resolve Issues
- Data Entry Services
- Training Services
- Content Authoring
- Instruction Designing
- Course creation – SCORM compliant, IMS
Environment Friendly
Helps cut down Treeware
Treeware refers to all content printed or written on papers. BigGyan helps administrators, teachers and students to cut their treeware significantly. This is not only environment friendly but also saves costs and is more convenient as teachers and students are not required to carry content of paper wherever they need. No need to maintain content on paper. No chances of losing the content.
Save fuel
BigGyan provides tool to Institutes to cut down fuel costs of teachers, parents and students. Using online conference tool Dimdim integrated with BigGyan institutes can hold Parent-teacher Meetings online. Even for extra classes students are not required to attend classes physically. Dimdim provides online whiteboard, desktop sharing, chatting features to facilitate online conference.
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eLearning: Preparing for a Better Future, Sitting at Home
Career counseling at the early stages is very important. It helps you select a career that you can pursue without many tensions. If should be something you like. But as mentioned above, people’s decision is affected by the glamour and pay packages rather then that focusing on their hobbies, talents, and skills. Under the influence of these things, the suggestions of the counselors are often ignored.
A Real Life Example
A person was interested in drawing. The counselors asked him to join a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. But then, his parents and teachers did not allow him and asked him to opt for engineering. Fine he did pass the entrance of engineering and worked as a civil engineer for five years. But somewhere in his heart, he wanted to paint the valleys where he was posted. He did use to sketch but wanted to make it his career. Slowly this desire got so strong that he could not perform his duties well. He desisted to go to office on time and used to leave early. Even at office, he started ignoring his colleagues; his parents were informed by one of his parents. The parents took him to a psychiatrist who diagnosed it as a burnout syndrome, wherein you do not want to do what you are supposed to do. The doctor asked him to take a few months break from his job. Fine, he left for a hill station with his drawing kit. He painted on roads, on the valleys, under the rocks and slowly regained his hunger and smile back. Noticing this, his parents felt bad that they forced him into the career. They gave him the freedom to setup his own venture in creative arts.
The bottom line is that do not let this happen to you or your kids. Not only will the person on whom the unwanted decision has been imposed will suffer, he will spoil his health too. By the time such people realize their mistakes, it is too late. They cannot change their career. That is until a few years back!
What to do When We Had Enough of the Current Job
To put it simply, many people are not interested in their current career and want to change it. But as they are already working on a full time job, they cannot afford to join other training courses. Some colleges offer weekend classes, but it is a tough job driving all the way to the classes instead of relaxing on the weekends.
I need not introduce you to the internet. You know that almost everything is possible through the communication channels offered by the internet. The internet has changed the scene in training also. You can now learn on the internet from the comfort of your home. This way you save some time to relax too. There are many kinds of courses being offered on the internet through different colleges and universities.
You can get professional tutors teaching you on the internet. You do not need any special software in many cases. But sometimes when you enroll, you have to download special software. It does not matter much whether or not you use special software. The only advantage is that if you are using any kind of software, you can keep some material on your hard disk too so that you can study offline too.
Are There Exams and Certificates on the Internet Too?
As the system is online, you can study from anywhere. At the end of the training, you also get valid certificates. Apart from that, you get more benefits such as personalized attention unlike in conventional centers where the student teacher ratio is high.
The courses are divided into certain modules and you will not get to the next module until you clear the first module. Apart from the tutor, you get knowledgebase which you can access anytime. Using the tutor’s advice and the knowledgebase, you can prepare for the exam. Normally exams are held every 6 months. Apart from that, the tutor can also take some surprise tests.
Which Online Institution to Join
While selecting an online teaching service, the first thing to notice is that 24 x 7 customer care is available. There can be problems any time while you are studying. For example, you are not able to open a module in the knowledgebase. So there must be someone who can assist you. Or if you want to find a particular topic and are not able to search in database, you can ask for help. This kind of help is a must for those providing online education.
Also check for testimonials that show how effective are the teaching techniques offered by the online institution. Also, there are some self assessment tests etc so that you can evaluate yourself from time to time. If possible, check with the previous students too.
Using Clearinghouses to Find the Best Online Institution
Clearinghouses are places where one can gather information about people or companies that provide a particular service. Clearinghouses saves you time in searching an online institution. This is better as than trying to find a tutor individually. Some clearing houses also offer comparison charts. But they are not held responsible if anything goes wrong. The purpose of clearing house is just to provide the related info at a single place. There are many such clearinghouses available on various Internet sites .
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Studying Online
There is only one disadvantage of studying online is that you will miss the formal environment that you are used to. You will have to interact with the tutor using the computer, the software, headset, and probably a webcam. You may miss out doubts that people in conventional classes.
But the advantage is that you can contact your university any time, provided it offers 24 x 7 customer support. You can ask your doubts as and when they arise. The best part is that you can work in the day and learn in the early mornings or in the evenings. Some institutions also offer the convenience of weekend classes. It is especially useful for students who have not done graduation and joined a job for earning money. As most of the high paying jobs ask for graduation, they can join some graduation course online and work in the day. This allows them to get a better job once the internet course in over.
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How A Good Quiz Maker Prevent Cheating On Online Testing
What abilities should a good quiz maker possess?
- Access ability to quiz
The ability of accessibility to quiz is a telling strategy to assure the security of your quiz. You can protect your quizzes from spread spitefully by some badman. It would be better if you have more options to set the access ability with quiz maker. Take Wondershare Quiz Maker for example, it supply four ways for users to access the quiz. Access with password only, access with user ID and password, online access control and domain limit online access. Of course, if you want the quiz spread anywhere by anyone, you also have the option to not set the accessibility.
- Time quiz
Looking up answers to questions in textbook/reading or searching the answers from website are the common issues for cheating. This is obvious when give giving a chapter check quiz. However, timed quiz is one of the most effective ways to eliminate such cheating. When students should answer the questions in a timed quiz in a certain amount of time, they won’t have time to look up all the answers if you give enough questions and make the time short enough. Such as the quiz with timer below which created by Wondershare Quiz Maker.
- Shuffle choices
If the quiz maker let you shuffle choices, it means that the order of choices within each question will be randomly shuffled each time an examinee attempts this quiz. So this makes it a little harder for students to copy from each other. It is an effective way to prevent cheating to some extent. Many quiz tools have such feature, such as Articulate QuizMaker below.
- Randomize questions
Randomizing questions reduces the chance of cheating. I will expound the reasons from the following two points.
Firstly, randomized questions make the printouts a lot less useful. Especially, when there are amount of questions in the question banks, students can only print a small number of questions at a time, if they want to get the full questions they will need to view the test again and again, and then sort the questions to eliminate duplicates.
Secondly, if students are on the same campus, they may get together in a lab and try to take the quiz together. Random question order is an easy strategy to thwart cheating. If my screen doesn’t look like yours, then it’s harder for students to quickly answer all of the questions.
- Limit answer attempts
Set a reasonable time limit for completion.
Limiting the amount of time to answers attempts for which students can access a test makes any form of cheating difficult to implement. Note: Don’t be too restrictive, but don’t give students forever either. Do not make the test available until the day you want students to begin taking it. - Multiple question types supported
The more quiz types the quiz maker has, the more efficacious the quiz to overcome online cheating. Particularly, Essays, case studies, and other complex question types can be challenging to answer even if students look up book. Students have to understand the material and apply it creatively to answer the questions. So how many question types a quiz maker supports is an important factor when choosing a quiz maker.
As far as I know, Moodle quiz module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types. But it is a little complex to create quiz. Take a view of the popular quiz makers, Articulate QuizMaker supports 9 types, Wondershare Quiz Maker supports 9 quiz types…
Of course, easy-to-use feature is also another factor to choose a quiz maker. There are also many free online quiz makers available: easytestmaker, classmaker and proprofs quizschool, you could make some small quiz with them. For make powerful multimedia Flash quiz, I suggest you choose some stand alone quiz maker. Articulate quizmaker is great, but it is a little expensive, you could take it into consideration. As for me, Wondershare Quiz Maker will be more cost-effective from its price and function.
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