Acatar Learning Environment

User Experience

• Putting the “user” back in User Experience

• Clean and intuitive user interfaces

• Adaptive design that looks great from desktop to tablet

• Mobile friendly course content

• Easy to understand dates and times

• Students can navigate courses on their terms

• Students can keep track of upcoming assignments, lectures, and live events via a“To-Do” list

• Course indexes make navigating and sorting content a snap

• Students can navigate course elements with ease from a calendar

Simplified Navigation

• Calendars keep students on track

• Day, week, and month calendar views aggregate students’ workload across courses

• Students can easily see when assignments are due

• Access to the course materials are linked directly from the calendar

• Students can subscribe to course calendars from their favorite devices

Powerful Calendaring

Content Creation and Delivery

• Spend time creating great content, not loading it

• Easy and flexible content creation

• Faculty can easily add, subtract, and modify course content instantly

• Connective Tissue for every course element create context for students

• Every course element (lecture, homework, reading, etc.) can be hidden and revealed based on time or dependency

Presence

• Real-Time collaboration

• Provides users insight into which faculty, academic mentors, and fellow classmates are online and available

• Messages are received in real- time like chat, but are waiting for you at next login when you’re not online

• Any user in the platform can create a meeting ad hoc

• View and request access to active meetings

• Users can share screens and files and communicate with audio and video

Live Sessions

• Engage students in the classroom and around the world

• Live sessions that provide great moderation tools for learning regardless of class size

• Users can be broken into breakout sessions for group collaboration exercises

• Students can raise their hands to ask questions

• Users’ cameras and microphones can be activated for robust discussion

• Polls and short quizzes can be administered in real time

• Users can share files, text chat, and work together on interactive whiteboards

• Live sessions are recorded for those unable to attend or for review

Asynchronous Discussion Tools

• Anywhere, anytime discussions

• Clean and intuitive discussion threads

• Builds connections and class community by promoting discussion on course topics and more informal discussion

• Contributes to the development of cognitive, critical thinking, and writing skills

• Allows time for thoughtful, in-depth reflection on course topics

• Empowers students to express themselves

• Students can review and respond to the work of others and approach learning in diverse ways

Group Collaboration

• Working in groups has never been simpler

• Create groups for in class projects, assignments, and more

• Students only see course elements associated with their group

• Easily extend assets across many groups

• Assignments can be set for group submission and grading