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| Variety of supported pedagogical scenarios | The Up2U is very flexible and allows to implement almost any pedagogical scenario a teacher can imagine. It has a variety of learning activities and resources which can be configured according to the needs of specific pedagogical intention with great flexibility, from complex one (CommonSpaces) to basic ones (online questionnaire). | Manage student work submissions and whether they are on time or late. Students submit their work digitally and teachers can track the submissions, send them back for editing, or award points. | MS Teams acts as a channel comprehensive of web conferencing tools, integrated chat, documents folder. MS Teams is particularly good at keeping conversation history in sync across multiple devices. Skype for business, which is Microsoft's other chat client, is particularly bad when it comes to this aspect. | Moodle is an online Learning Management system enabling educators to create their own private website filled with dynamic courses that extend learning.It allows working and learning together in forums, wikis, glossaries, database activities, and much more Manage student work submissions and whether they are on time or late. |
| Comprehensiveness of assessment tools | The Up2U Moodle testing engine provides a huge variety of question types that can be expanded by installing additional plugins. Moodle also supports assessment and peer-assessment in other activities such as forums, data-bases. Rubrics based assessment is also possible in workshop activity. Several integrated tools like H5P offer an interesting variety of options. | Google Classroom provides a grade book, but that grade book does not sync with all district's grade books, so you will have to manually transfer any grades received. | Lack of rollout plans from MS that businesses can use to improve user adoption. | Moodle's grade book works well. Assignments are integrated so the grades are recorded automatically through the many different tools available for assessment, whose grades are integrated in a unique students’ dashboard made available to teachers and tutors. |
| Learning analytics | Internal Moodle Learning Analytics with machine learning powered prediction models and Learning Locker LRS for gathering data from all Up2U tools giving the possibility to have an overview of such data | Google Classroom is NOT an LMS, although some schools/districts try to mold it in that fashion. It does not include robust features of an LMS, such as any kind of L.A. | - | Moodle provides Learning Analytics with machine learning powered prediction models |
| Interactive content creation | Integrated tools such as H5P provide a great selection of interactive content types. Integrated SWAN platform for creating interactive notebooks is one of the Up2U advantages. | Integrated Google Suite Apps such as Docs, Slides or Spreadsheets can be used. | Integrated OneNote or other Office365 applications can be used for interactive content creation. | Integrated tools such as H5P provide a great selection of interactive content types. |
| Adaptive learning scenarios | Conditional access to learning activities and resources allow creation of adaptive learning scenarios | Limited adaptive learning scenarios. | Limited adaptive learning scenarios. | Conditional access to learning activities and resources allow creation of adaptive learning scenarios |
| Gamification | Badges are an integral part of the Moodle, while other gamification elements can be added via additional modules. “Scorm” and “Lessons” can also be used to support gamification. | - | - | Badges are an integral part of the Moodle, while other gamification elements can be added via additional modules. “Scorm” and “Lessons” can also be used to support gamification. |
| Communication features | The Up2U Moodle supports instant messaging among individual users or in groups, asynchronous communication in forums. Up2U ecosystem provides video conferencing integrated solutions (eduMEET) and also cooperates with other video conferencing tools like BigBlueButton, etc. | Google Classroom comprehends a dashboard to leave asynchronous messages- not easy to be later consulted, since they do not come in a thread, and a chat for synchronous ones | MT comprehends a dashboard to leave asynchronous messages and a chat supporting the synchronous events | Moodle supports instant messaging among individual users or in groups, asynchronous communication in forums, etc. BigBlueButton can be added as additional service. |
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The innovation action leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 732049 - Up2U 