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What
is ClassLeader?
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ClassLeader
is a complete software solution giving access to everything
that is required for both one-to-one and one-to-group educational
management needs. ClassLeader is a powerful but easy to use software
environment for the instructor, teacher or trainer to manage,
administrate and conduct e-learning.
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What
are its principal benefits?
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It provides
instructors, teachers or trainers with a flexible framework
for creating courses, planning and executing educational events,
stimulating active study, personally following up the work and
progress of each learner or student and managing the communication
that takes place between learner or students and groups of learners
or students.

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What
are its principal characteristics?
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From the instructor's,
teacher's or trainer's points of view it exists as a structure
to contain all the information and data associated with a course
and the learners or students enrolled in the course. The trainer
creates everything by filling in a limited number of forms.
Everything created is stored on a server that allows constant
real time updating.

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Who
is it for?
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It is the
ideal tool for training and teaching institutions that wish
to service their clients or students at a distance. But it is
also an excellent complement to training programs, enabling
instructors, teachers and trainers to better inform and motivate
their learners or students. As a complement to traditional
teaching it is a management tool. In a distance learning environment
it is a complete communication and management system.

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How
do trainers, teachers or instructors create their courses?
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Everything
the instructor, teacher or trainer does is accomplished by filling
in forms. The most complex action for an instructor, teacher or
trainer wishing to integrate multimedia into a course is the identification
of resources and their storage on an available server. The instructor,
teacher or trainer merely indicates the address of these resources
to integrate them in a course or lesson.

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What
are ClassLeader's advantages?
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ClassLeader
possesses two vital strengths:
It enables and facilitates a personalized relationship
between the instructor, teacher or trainer and their learner or
students.
It
provides the organizational key to any training program
that takes place over time (more than two weeks).
ClassLeader's
integrated functions make it unique among web-based educational
products. Its design and architecture are orientated towards
communication, rather than publication, towards narrowcasting
rather than broadcasting, towards class management rather
than mere publication of course content. ClassLeader not only
allows ease of publishing and exercise creation from any type
of existing material already placed online, but it also integrates
into a coherent teaching approach, elements, including multimedia,
that have been produced with other Web publishing packages.
Comparison
: educational objectives


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What
are
the means of communication?
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ClassLeader
opens up several complementary channels of communication between
trainer and learner or student and amongst learner or students
themselves: announcements, forum, Electronic Class, messaging
facility integrated into the work phases, access to and collaborative
management of resources.

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What
environments
does it work in?
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Classleader
is a server based software environment which supports both Netscape
(from 4.5) and Microsoft (from 4.1) browsers. Minimum system or
users requirements are 64K of RAM and a pentium processor.
ClassLeader
will also be available to be installed on any Unix or Windows
NT Internet or Intranet server. It can be used by any Web enabled
machine that supports the above mentioned browsers. ClassLeader
requires no special hardware or software.

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What
ClassLeader
Includes
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Server-side
software ensuring
personalized & collective programming & monitoring
Creation
& management of course data (courses,
lessons, announcements)
A
personal communication system with
messaging linked to lessons and tasks,
An
electronic classroom managed
by the trainer & a thematic forum for each course,
A
quiz & exercise authoring system,
Programming
& management of multimedia resources installed
on the learners' stations,
Automatized
FTP uploads.
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