Our Porgram
EOPDC maintains a server with the most
advanced Learning Management System software available. Our partner
organizations are able to maintain their own courses, instructors and
enrollments. The software is highly flexable and feature rich yet easy to use.
A person with typical word processing skills and Internet experience can easily
create an online course from their course content. The main features of the
software are:
Enterprise Scalability ~ The system has a proven ability to scale to
hundreds of thousands of active users. This assures that the program has the
capability to run all your courses and cover all your enrollments.
Standards ~ Compliance and interoperability with industry standards
is a fundamental capability and is built into the software. Course Management ~
Course Management capabilities focus on the effective creation, migration, and
archiving of courses.
Content Authoring ~ The Visual Text Box Editor provides a rich text
editing interface to create effective learning content. Instructors can also
import.
e-Learning content created in external authoring tools.
Adaptive Content Release ~ Provides the ability for an instructor to
create custom learning paths through course content and activities. 
Syllabus Builder ~ Enables instructors to easily create, design, and
develop their own course syllabus and lesson plans.
Learning Units ~ Allows instructors to create sequenced lessons and
control how students progress through this content. 
Online Textbook Content (Course Cartridges) ~ Pre-packaged content
and course materials in the proper format, created by all major education
publishers to supplement their course textbooks.
Teaching and Learning Tools ~ A wide range of tools that support of
specific teaching or learning activities. These tools include the Glossary, the
Electric Blackboard and Staff Information.
Personal Information Management ~ The Calendar allows a user to
manage and view course-specific events as well as personal and institutional
events. The Tasks tool allows instructors to assign tasks with Priority and Due
Dates and track students' progress. Message facilitates email-like
communication within a course.
Discussion Board ~ The Discussion Board enables threaded,
asynchronous discussions. Instructors can create multiple forums about
different topics and embed these into appropriate course content areas.
Virtual Classroom / Collaboration Tool ~ Enables live, synchronous
interaction by supporting a text-based Chat environment and a full Virtual
Classroom.
Group Projects ~ Instructors can use the Groups tool to support peer
collaboration among multiple groups of students.
Assessments and Surveys ~ Instructors can deliver online,
automatically-scored assessments and surveys. 
Assignments ~ Allows instructors to create assignment items through
which students can submit their responses.-
Gradebook ~ Instructors can store student performance results in the course
Gradebook, which supports custom grading scales, grade weighting, item analysis
and multiple gradebook views.
Reporting and Performance Dashboard ~ The Performance Dashboard
provides a view of student progress and indicates whether students have
reviewed specific content items. It also enables usage data to be viewed for an
entire course.