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Learners
* Accessibility: ATutor was designed with accessibility as a priority. A wide range of features ensure assistive technology users can participate fully in learner, instructor, and administrative activities.
* My Courses (formerly Control Centre): Instructors and students can manage the ATutor courses they teach and/or are enrolled in.
* Adaptive Navigation: Learners can move through ATutor 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: New in 1.4! When the ACollab add-on is installed on an ATutor system, learners 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 submitted to the group leader, or course instructor.
* Context Sensitive Help: Most ATutor tools include "mini help" popup windows that describe how features should be used. Once familiar with ATutor, help can be hidden with a preference setting.
* 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: Learners can control ATutor features such as screen layout, display of text and icons, display of navigation elements, and the theme ATutor is presented in. Accessibility preset preferences optimize ATutor for use with assistive technologies.
* Communication Tools: Learners can communicate with others using ATutor's private mail, the discussion forums, the chat rooms, or the "User's Online" tool. New in 1.4! Threads and messages can be sorted in a variety of ways.
* Content Package Viewer: Learners can export content from ATutor as Content Packages that can be viewed offline in the accompanying viewer.
* Content Tracker: Learners can review their navigation and tool usage patterns, and keep track of the content pages they have visited.
* Test Manager: Learners can take tests, review test results, and keep track of their scores.
* Glossary: Words and phrases added to the glossary by the instructor, 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 instructors can add links. Instructors can also manage them.
* Course Search: A search engine allows learners to search course content. New in 1.4.2! Search for courses in the course catalogue.
* TILE Repository Search: New in 1.4! Learners can search the TILE learning objects repository for content related to the topics they are studying, and download content packages for viewing offline.
Instructors
* Learning Tools: Instructors have access to all the learning tools that are available to learners. Help boxes are present throughout a newly created ATutor course to assist novice instructors with content development and course configuration. Full instructor documentation is also available in the ATutor HowTo Course. Units of ATutor HowTo can be imported and modified to create custom documentation for a course.
* Content Editor: Instructors can create content in HTML or plain text. This content can be imported from a local editor, or edited directly online. Release dates can be set to control when content is viewable to learners. Content pages can be moved to different locations within a course. Related pages can be linked to content as references or relevant information.
* Visual Editor: New in 1.4! An implementation of the htmlArea JavaScript WYSIWYG editor is available as an extension of the Content Editor so content creators can format course materials without knowing any HTML.
* Accessibility Checker: New in 1.4! The ATRC AChecker Web service has been integrated into the Content Editor to allow authors to review the accessibility of their content to people with disabilities who may be accessing ATutor using assistive technology. A variety of standards are available for an international audience. AChecker automatically identifies known accessibility problems, and allows authors to make descisions on potential problems that AChecker can not identify for certain. Accessibility reports are saved in the AChecker database, and allow ongoing monitoring of accessibility as content evolves.
* IMS/SCORM Content Packaging: Instructors can export content from ATutor as IMS/SCORM conformant Content Packages that can be viewed offline in the accompanying viewer, or imported into ATutor 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 ATutor. New in 1.4! Importing and exporting complex content such as Java applets, and other embedded programmed objects is supported.
* Learning Objects Repository: New in 1.4! Search the TILE learning objects repository for course related materials. Download content packages from the repository for viewing, or import them directly into ATutor. Enter a URL to a content package anywhere on the Web, and import it into your course. Export content from ATutor into the repository, login to the repository to author new content, add to, or enhance existing content.
* Course Backups: The entire content and structure of a course can be exported into an archived file that can be used to backup a course, create a copy for a new course session or a another course section, or to move a course onto another ATutor server.
* News & Announcements: Instructors can post messages to the course Home Page to guide learners 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 learner visits when they log into a course.
* File Manager: Instructors can upload and manage course related files. Directories can be created to sort files, zip archives can be uploaded and unpacked, a mini file manager can be opened along side the Content Editor, and course files can be linked easily into content pages as they are being created.
* Banner Editor (formerly Header Editor & Stylesheet Editor): New in 1.4! Instructors can customize the course banner area to create a course specific banner look. This can be done by setting styles such as background colour or image, font styles, colour, and size.
* Course Preferences: Instructors can save default preference settings for a course, controlling the display of various tools and navigation elements for new users. This is helpful for simplifying ATutor for younger, less skilled, or learners with special needs.
* Course Tracker: Instructors can review tool and content usage statistics, and use these statistics to optimise course content and structure. Individual usage statistics can be reviewed to identify gaps in content coverage, the learning tendencies of each learner, and the path each took through the course. Tracking can be turned on or off by the system administrator as a course property setting.
* Test Manager: Instructors can create tests with multiple choice, true/false, 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 for each learner, and test results can be archived. New in 1.4! Self-marking tests can be created to provide students with instant feedback. New in 1.4.2! Create surveys and link them to the course home page.
* Polls: Instructors can create one question polls to quickly gather student opinions.
* Forums: Instructors 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 the thread list if a message is important.
* Course Properties: Instructors can view course login statistics, edit course properties, and send course-wide email messages.New in 1.4.2! A default display language can be set for each course.
* Course Enrollment: Instructors may import a comma separated list of students to register on an ATutor system and enroll in their courses.
* Roles & Privileges: New in 1.4! Instructors can assign students access to various instructor tools to create teaching assistants or co-instructors. Role titles can be customized to match the terms preferred.
* Work Groups: New in 1.4! With the ACollab add-on, instructors can create work groups for course projects, assignments, file sharing, and group communication. Group leaders can be assigned to manage group administrative activities. ACollab 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. See the ACollab project for more about adding work groups to ATutor.
Administrators
* Themes: New in 1.4! Administrators can create their own custom version of ATutor's look and feel by modifying the default theme, share their theme with others, and install themes others have created.
* Automated Installer and Upgrade: A fast and easy way to install ATutor!
* General Statistics: Administrators can view system usage statistics.
* Secure Course Content: New in 1.4.2! Secure the course content directory to prevent unauthorized access to course files.
* Instructor Request: Administrators can review requesting instructors' personal information, and update their 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 modified.
* Course Manager: Much like the User Manager, courses on a system can be sorted, their properties modified, and their instructors managed.
* Course Categories: The ATutor course browser includes a course category browser, so courses can be sorted into a custom defined set of categories. Administrators can define categories for sorting courses on their ATutor system. New in 1.4.2! Themes can be assigned to course categories so all courses within a category appear the same.
* Language Manager: Administrators can download language packs from the ATutor Web site and import them into ATutor. Once imported, languages on an ATutor system can be modified if needed. New language packs can be created on the ATutor Translator site.
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