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Learning Management Systems: A Comparison

MOST LMS

SOCIAL LEARNING

USABILITY & DESIGN

SUPPORT

NETWORK APPROACH

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Dashboard: An Overview of All Activities

Calendar: An Overview of Upcoming Sessions

Publish important dates

Folders: Arrange Resources Efficiently

Publish important dates Divide

resources into folders

Resources: Up-/Download, Annotate, Comment

Comment on resources

Upload literature, images, links, videos

Read and annotate texts or images (‘Social Reading’)

Social Reading: Collaborate Outside the Class

Choose whose comments to see

Highlight important text passages

Comment and Reply

Social Reading: Annotate Texts and Images

Comment on area, point or text

Download annotated documents

Discussion: Comment on Individual Resources

Reader: Order a Reader Straight from your LMS

Faculty members can create ‘Readers’ for their students – essentially a course pack of selected texts such as course readings, handouts or slides. These can then be ordered as a paperback printout.

Reader: Compile Your Personal Readers

You can also create a ‘personal reader’ from from your dashboard.

Reader: Compile Your Own Personal Readers

You can order any individual document or collection of documents as a ‘Reader’ and have it shipped straight to your doorstep - at prices that are competitive if compared to your local copy shop.

The iversity Reader: A High Quality b/w Paperback

This is what it looks like!

Books: Purchase Directly from the Syllabus

1. Semi-automatic literature entry

2. Direct Integration of purchasing option

3. Availability of new/used books through Amazon

Overview

Publish important dates

Upload literature, images, links, videos

Read and annotate texts or images

Comment on resources

Arrange resources efficiently

Purchase books directly from the Syllabus

Highlight important text passages Order a

Reader straight from your LMS

Download annotated documents

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