Learning Management Systems
Description
Learning Management Systems (LMS) consist in a software application for administration, documentation, tracking and delivery of educational courses online. In Up2U we are using Moodle, an open source platform that lets you build the perfect education solution for your needs. Moodle is a modular system based on plugins. The software offers a rich environment with plugins for different kinds of content and collaborative activities.
Moodle enables to create direct learning paths adapted to each different class or discipline, encourage collaboration between students, allows to embed easily external resources, multimedia integration, group management, marking workflows, peer and self-assessment, integrated badges, and other features. All the information placed in Moodle is secure and respects the privacy of its users.
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Posted on March 15, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Content
Description
Up2U also provide access to content repositories where students and teachers can search and find for educational materials in form of audio, video, and multimedia animations. These materials can then be used inside and outside of the classroom environment to support teaching and learning activities.
These repositories are rich open spaces to access digital content and enable the ability to retain, reuse, revise remix and redistribute OER(Open Educational Resources) that are available to use under CC(Creative Commons) licenses.
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Posted on March 15, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Collaborative Editing
Description
Collaborative editing tools make teamwork easier letting a group of people to work together in real time on documents, notebooks, code, equations, plots, pictures, and videos. Users can invite other persons for online collaboration and are able to see the changes as they happen, because documents are automatically updated and synched in real time.
We provide tools that lead collaborative editing in education to the next level.
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Posted on March 15, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Learning Analytics
Description
Up2U will provide several tools to help teachers and educators to process, analyze, measure and collect data about learners and learning activities with the aim of improving teaching and learning practices.
Learning analytics is a new field enabled, by the advance of big data and data visualisation software. These tools can be used for analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, curriculum mapping, personalising the learner experience, predicting behaviour and designing learning paths. The main goals are related with the optimization of learning environments and a better understanding of the learning process.
Posted on March 7, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Social Interactions
Description
Online social interactions grow at a great pace in formal and informal spaces and can be used as an educational tool to capture students attention and participation. At Up2U, we offer new ways to engage students in learning communities, using co-learning and e-mentoring, which may be essential to achieve better school outcomes in the future.
Social interactions may improve students learning experience by enhancing their knowledge of literacy and teaching and their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Also, creates a positive classroom environment and establish a community of learners who support each other (Bromley, 2008), increasing social interactions inside and outside of the classroom.
Our main development will be a flexible, integrated application toolbox supporting student-driven, personalized, dynamic, interactive, rich multimedia learning path creation with social sharing and interactions (project based and peer-to-peer learning and assessment) on top of a public and private cloud-based service infrastructure.
Posted on March 1, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Real-time Interactions
Description
Up2U provides a set of tools that allow synchronous communication between members of activities and workgroups. This makes it easier to teachers and students to collaborate in real time using video conferencing and other online tutoring tools.
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Posted on March 1, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Recording & Publishing
Description
Up2U provides several tools that allow you to record, edit and publish educational multimedia content quickly and intuitively. From video recordings of lectures to conferences, seminars, and other institutional events. The software enables synchronous recording of audio and video components (video and slides) and allows users to share the content online easily with their peers.
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Posted on March 1, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Doc Sharing
Description
Up2U offers a number of tools to improve students and teachers ability to work and collaborate anytime and anywhere from their mobile devices. Providing a set of applications that facilitate document sharing between peers, allowing Up2U users to view, sync and share files across devices easily.
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Posted on March 1, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Powering learning environments worldwide
Description
Moodle is a Learning Platform or course management system (CMS) – a free Open Source software package designed to help educators create effective online courses based on sound pedagogical principles.
Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other e-learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors.
Main Features
- Modern, easy to use interface
- Personalised Dashboard
- Collaborative tools and activities
- All-in-one calendar
- Convenient file management
- Simple and intuitive text editor
- Notifications
- Track progress
Documents
Videos
Posted on February 28, 2018 by Nélson Dias
Create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content
Description
H5P makes it easy to create, share and reuse HTML5 content and applications. H5P empowers everyone to create rich and interactive web experiences more efficiently – all you need is a web browser and a web site with an H5P plugin. With H5P, authors may create and edit interactive videos, presentations, games, advertisements and more.
Link: https://h5p.org/
Main Features
- Create – Richer HTML5 content in existing publishing platforms
- Share – Content seamlessly across any H5P capable site
- Reuse and modify – Content in your browser at any time
- Supported frameworks: WordPress, Drupal and Moodle
- Responsive and mobile friendly
- Free to use
- Moodle integration
Documents
Videos
Posted on February 1, 2018 by Nélson Dias