EduMan LMS is an active and evolving product. This page lists only some of EduMan LMS's many features. We encourage you to click on links to learn more.
Contents
• 1 Overall design
• 2 Site management
• 3 User management
o 3.1 Overview
o 3.2 Enrolment
o 3.3 Roles
• 4 Course management
o 4.1 Overview
o 4.2 Assignment Module
o 4.3 Chat module
o 4.4 Choice module
o 4.5 Forum Module
o 4.6 Glossary Module
o 4.7 Lesson Module
o 4.8 Quiz Module
o 4.9 Resource Module
o 4.10 Survey Module
o 4.11 Wiki Module
o 4.12 Workshop Module
• 5 Support
Overall design
EduMan LMS's overall design:
 Promotes a social constructionist pedagogy (collaboration, activities, critical reflection, etc)
 Suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning
 Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech browser interface
 Easy to install on almost any platform that supports PHP. Requires only one database (and can share it).
 Full database abstraction supports all major brands of database (except for initial table definition)
 Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including accessibility to guests.
 Courses can be categorised and searched - one EduMan LMS site can support thousands of courses
 Emphasis on strong security throughout. Forms are all checked, data validated, cookies encrypted etc
 Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
Site management
 Site is managed by an administrator user
 Site is defined during setup. Defaults can be edited during setup or globally accepted
 Site can be modified by a robust Site administration block.
 Plug-in "themes" allow the administrator to customize the site colors, fonts, layout etc to suit local needs
 Plug-in activity modules can be added to existing EduMan LMS installations
 Plug-in language packs allow full localization to any language. These can be edited using a built-in web-based editor. Currently there are language packs for over 70 languages.

User management
Overview
 Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high security
 Supports a range of user authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication modules, allowing easy integration with existing systems.
 Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email addresses are verified by confirmation.
 LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin can specify which fields to use.
 For example, IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. SSL/TLS certificates are supported.
 Students are encouraged to build an online Edit profile including photos, description. Email addresses can be protected from display if required.
 Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in EduMan LMS is translated to that timezone (e.g. posting dates, assignment due dates etc)
 Every user can choose the language used for the EduMan LMS interface (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc)
Enrolment
 After a user has been authenticated by the site or allowed in as a guest, they are enrolled in courses.
 Teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to only allow certain students to enter. They can give out this key face-to-face or via personal email etc
 Teachers can enrol students manually if desired
 Teachers can unenrol students manually if desired, otherwise they are automatically unenrolled after a certain period of inactivity (set by the admin)
 There are many Enrolment_plugins
 Includes: LADP, IMS, Paypal, EduMan LMS Network to name a few
 Any External database that has least two fields can be used as an external authentication source
 Flat file or CSV files can automatically authenticate and enroll students in specific courses
 Each person requires only one account for the EduMan LMS site - each account can have access to different courses, or resources and activities
 Meta courses get their enrollment information from 1 or more other courses.
Roles
 Roles combine specific permissions for specific types of participants. A user can be assigned a different role for each contexts, such as a specific course.
 The administrator (admin) user account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by assigning users to courses and giving them a role in that context
 New roles can be created, copied from existing roles and edited. Some standard roles include:
 Course creator can create courses, teach in them, and assign others to teacher roles.
 Teachers are a role in a specific course.
 Non-editing teacher roles are available for adjuncts, and part-time tutors.
 Students can participate and view activities but not create them
 Guests are view only users.
Course management
Overview
 Typically, a teacher has full control over all settings for a course.
 This can include assigning other teachers roles with less privileges
 Choice of Course formats settings such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focused social format
 Individual Course_settings#Force_theme and layout can be created for any course.
 Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops
 Groups - teacher(s) and students can be placed in one or more groups
 Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the course home page - helps give sense of community
 Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
 All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file) in a Gradebook.
 Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings etc on one page.
 Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text. Users can set a preference for daily emails in their profile.
 Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments
 Courses can be packaged as a single zip file using the Backup function. These can be restored on any EduMan LMS server.
 Specific course activities and resources can be imported from another existing course
Assignment Module
 Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
 Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - they are date-stamped.
 Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly to the teacher
 For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and comment) on one page in one form.
 Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and notification is mailed out.
 The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading (for regrading)
 Allowing resubmissions can allow the teacher to progress monitor student projects/assignments as they evolve.
 Advanced assignments can allow multiple files to be uploaded. This could keep together preplanning maps, outlines, research papers and presentations. (Not for beginners)
Chat module
 The Chat module allows smooth, synchronous text interaction
 They can be limited to group members or roles, or be for anyone in the course
 Includes profile pictures in the chat window
 Supports URLs, smilies, embedded HTML, images etc
 All sessions are logged for later viewing, and these can also be made available to students
Choice module
 The Choice module is like a single question poll. Can either be used to vote on something, or to get feedback from every student
 Teacher sees intuitive table view of who chose what
 Students can optionally be allowed to see an up-to-date graph of results
Forum Module
 Different types of forums are available, such as teacher-only, course news, open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.
 There are several options for emailing forum posts to members of the course.
 All postings have the authors photo attached.
 Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.
 Robust subscription methods for each forum
 Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person
 Teacher can force subscription for all members of the course, either initially or permanently.
 Groups features allow options for more entry and viewing limitations for students.
 The teacher can choose not to allow replies to their posts (announcements.
 Discussion threads can be moved between forums or split by the teacher.
 Attachments can be made to posts and shown as part of message.
 Forum ratings can be used, these can be restricted to a range of dates.
Glossary Module
 The Glossary module is one of the modules that best illustrates the way that EduMan LMS can fundamentally improve upon the experience of a traditional classroom
 When students contribute to a course in a public place like the glossary, their ideas are given weight and attention and often result in a greater pride or ownership of the assignment
 Allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary
 Student entries can be previewed by instructors before publishing
 Entries can be searched or browsed using alphabet, category, date, and author
 A glossary of terms can be easily referenced by students
 Almost any module of EduMan LMS can be set to hyperlink - automatically - to any word or phrase that is stored in or added to the glossary
 Glossary items can be grouped in categories
 Participants can comment on glossary entries
 Entries can be rated using teacher-defined scales
 Glossaries can be easily exported and imported via xml
 Glossaries can be fully searched
 Glossaries can be viewed with different display formats
Lesson Module
 A lesson is a single activity where a series of pages are presented to the student.
 Pages can allow students to make choices by their answers to questions or by selecting a button with a description. A student choice is also a link to another lesson page.
 This allows for a simple slide show type of presentation, with questions.
 It allows for a branching, adaptive presentation based upon a student's specific choice.
 Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, logical or random.
 Jumps are associated with each choice that link to other lesson pages.
 Jumps can be to a specific page or to a random page or a page not seen by the student.
 Choices that are answers to questions and can be scored and given individual feed back.
 Question pages include Multiple choice, Multi-answer, T/F, numeric, short answer and essay.
 Lesson settings offer the teacher many options such as:
 Different scoring and grading potentials
 Lessons can build upon each other through conditional dependencies upon one another
 Student attempts, time limits, minimum score and retakes can be set
 Students may see progress bars, running score, reinforcement to student questions
 Password, start and end times, and other restrictions can be placed on students.
 Pages can be created one at a time or imported.
Quiz Module
 Teachers can define a database of questions where they can add these questions to a course quiz or have the questions shared over the EduMan LMS site.
 Questions can be stored in categories for easy access, and these groups of questions can be "published" to make them accessible to any quiz on the site.
 Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are modified
 There are many quiz settings options, such as:
 Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not available
 At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can show feedback and/or correct answers
 Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled (randomised) to reduce cheating
 Quizzes can be attempted multiple times, if desired
 Attempts can be cumulative, if desired, and finished over several sessions
 Questions allow HTML formatting, images and has a friendly tool bar.
 Questions can be imported or exported in many file formats.
 There are more than 10 question types, each with different scoring methods, such as:
 Multiple-choice questions supporting single or multiple answers
 Short Answer questions (words or phrases)
 True-False questions
 Matching questions
 Random questions
 Numerical questions (with allowable ranges)
 Embedded-answer questions (cloze style) with answers within passages of text
 Embedded descriptive text and graphics is possible in questions
Resource Module
 Resources can display of many types of media content files by a single link on the course page, such as:
 Word, Powerpoint, Flash, Video formats, Audio formats
 Internal web pages (HTML formatted) can be created with HTML editor tool
 Internal text pages (no formatting)
 Files can be stored locally or the link point to remote locations
 Files can be uploaded and managed (zipped, unzipped, renamed, moved) in the course
 Folders can be created and managed in the course and students given a link to the folder.
 External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within the course interface.
 External web applications can be linked to with data passed to them
Survey Module
 Built-in surveys (COLLES, ATTLS) have been proven as instruments for analysing online classes
 Online survey reports always available, including many graphs. Data is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file.
 Survey interface prevents partly-finished surveys.
 Feedback is provided to the student of their results compared to the class averages
Wiki Module
 Wiki module is a series of web pages that anyone can add to or edit
 It enables document pages to be authored collectively
 Supports groups
 There are many teacher based editing tools.
Workshop Module
 Workshop module allows peer assessement of documents, and the teacher can manage and grade the assessment.
 Supports a wide range of possible grading scales
 Teacher can provide sample documents for students to practice grading
 Being redone for EduMan LMS 2.0
Support
EduMan LMS has better actual user support than most higher priced course management software programs. Support comes in a variety of robust forms to meet the varied needs of a larger user base. Some examples:
 EduMan LMS documentation. You are reading one of many pages
 Starting links for Teachers, Administrator and Developers
 Pages that can connect to your EduMan LMS site for help
 Many active forums and courses to provide help, tips and friendly encouragement
 Over 70 user forums in English
 Even more in other languages
 A social forum for not necessarily EduMan LMS related threads
 Special user group EduMan LMS courses, with forums, demonstrations and FAQs
 Tracker for bugs, issues and new features requests
 Demonstration courses - in many languages showing different looks and presentation methods with a standard EduMan LMS.
 Books - we have our favorites and there are many books on and about EduMan LMS
 EduMan LMS Partners can also provide you with focused help for your site or project