Some years ago, the kalmstrom.com team created a learning
management system in SharePoint for a Swedish school. We
called it Study Manager, and similar solutions are
suitable for introduction courses or training for any company
or organization.
With Study Manager, a teacher or teachers group can
create and manage self study material – texts, sound,
images, videos, links – for their students. The students
work with the exercises and tasks in SharePoint.
Web-based learning environment
For each subject, we used one site with one Study Manager
installation, where information and news about the subject
was shared. A discussion forum for the subject for students
and teachers can also be added, but the customer decided
to opt out of that feature.
User Roles
Teachers and students use Study Manager in different
ways:
Teachers
Add study material to Study Manager
Edit and remove study material
Decide hierarchy and order of the study material
Supervise the progress of all students
Correct or comment when students write texts or
work with files in other ways
Students
Solve different kinds of tasks
Write texts
Read texts
Listen to sound
See their own progress
Each study group can have its own subsite or associated
site in Study Manager. Here each student can reach
the table of contents, where he/she sees what exercises
have been finished and which one is the next. This is also
the place for everything that should be shared within the
study group.
Course Management
Study Manager arranges the study material in an hierarchic
way that is easy to overview. The hierarchy is visible in
the table of contents, which is updated automatically each
time study material is added to, edited or removed from
Study Manager.
Study Manager can have two types of exercises:
Listen to a text, with or without a possibility
to follow the sound in the written text. This type of
exercise is most suited for language courses.
Several kinds of exercises with self correcting
tasks. The exercise can be a text, an image, a video,
graphics or a table, and different kinds of tasks are
connected to it. Such exercises can be used for any
subject.
Students can also work with files that are commented on
by the teacher.
