| Compass Education Technologies, Inc | Compass | Compass | Compass |
| 2560 Route 22 East - Suite 200 - Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 | Educational | Tutoring | Alumni |
| Suite | Suite | Suite | |
| Product Matrix | |||
| Overview and Features List | |||
| Compass Interactive Education Suite™ is an internet Learning Management System (iLMS) designed to make the online learning experience efficient, easy, economical and affordable. Compass Learning Suites are all interactive which enhances and enables the power of the instructor and the student to communicate. | |||
| School Management System (SMS) | |||
| Desktop sharing | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Assign Roles | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Manage Online Credentials for all members | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Secure logins | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| 365/24/7 access | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Access system from anywhere in the world with internet access. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Create and manage college and private secondary schools | ♦ | ||
| Create and manage trade Schools | ♦ | ||
| Create and manage users on the system including instructors, course coordinators, course schedules, administrators etc. in a multi-role environment. | ♦ | ||
| Create and manage semesters or any marked period. | ♦ | ||
| Manage registration and implement course and semester registrations limits. | ♦ | ||
| Monitor and manage semester transcripts. | ♦ | ||
| Maintain transcripts and historical course and performance data. | |||
| Enables a history of course and transcript of student's records to be available to student and administrators. | ♦ | ||
| Additional Features for Supplemental Education Management (SEMS) | |||
| Comprehensive request system that allows students or parents to schedule or request supplemental tutoring. (Interactive) | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Online Tutor selection database system including information on qualifications, availability, as well as assessment and feedback on prior Tutor performance. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Allowance for variable on uniform rates. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Allowance for both tutor selection or open request system. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Online Tutor selection database system including information on qualifications, availability, as well as assessment and feedback on prior Tutor performance. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| On demand tutoring mode allows a student or parent to access tutors currently online (an administrator may set up a tutor on call system for the on-demand service). | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Students | |||
| Register for courses | ♦ | ||
| For SES: Schedule online tutoring | ♦ | ||
| For SES: Access instant online tutoring (by available online tutors - this aspect may require organizational policy) | ♦ | ||
| Submit homework help questions | ♦ | ||
| Take online quizzes | ♦ | ||
| Convene course discussion with peers | ♦ | ||
| Participate in online class boards | ♦ | ||
| Access performance data, notes from teachers, assignment and scores | ♦ | ||
| Rate and provide feedback on tutors | ♦ | ||
| Convenient online payment | ♦ | ||
| Teachers, tutors, trainers may access the homework or learning request and provide offline assistance. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Allowance for tutor remuneration is based on responses to learning needs. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Allowance for storing the requests for homework help in a library system for search and retrieval by other students. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Content Management | |||
| Create and maintain course web pages and course materials online using WYSIWYG online content management system. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Compass Education Suite's secure system enables editing permission for pages to be determined by user role so that the appropriate site member or instructor will have access to edit and create content securely. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Course Management System (CMS) | |||
| Creates courses with optional provision for online self registration, registration time limits, course Webpage link. | ♦ | ||
| Assignment management - issue assignments, upload page automatically created, deadlines enforced and instructors may access the uploaded work. | ♦ | ||
| Lessons may be issued by week with links to course or learning materials. | ♦ | ||
| Using the CMS, course content is managed and coordinated online. | |||
| Secure online testing and grading. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Assessment and Quiz System | |||
| Powerful on-the-fly web forms and quiz software allows the creation of course exams and quizzes or school administration forms, such as change in major, transcript requests etc. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Course can be graded automatically (for multiple choice and fill-in questions) or instructor graded as is needed. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Quizzes may be analyzed by correct entries or downloaded to Excel. Quiz history and analysis may be used to devise improvements to lessons and curriculum. | ♦ | ||
| Advanced Interactive Online Classroom | |||
| Online classroom that enables an instructor/tutor to present learning material to students about as easily as in a physical classroom. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Includes Voice Over IP (same technology as Skype). Optionally, instructors could utilize a regular phone system. (Interactively). | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Audio Conferencing (may include additional phone charges) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Desktop sharing and slide presentation. | |||
| File and Secure Access System | |||
| Compass Education Suite's file and resource allocation system allows access to pages and resources to be determined by user roles. This enables the creation of an intranet-extranet learning community with appropriate access. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| SSO Single-Sign-On requires only one login to access your role. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Create any number of roles necessary. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Customizable | |||
| The entire software and application look and feel is customizable using Compass Education Suite's (NetVios) patent pending feature system. It allows the application to adopt an existing site's look for implementation on apre-existing website. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Can be customized using Dreamweaver, Expression Web or any of the popular web design programs. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Audit | |||
| Monitor access and clicks to selected pages. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Monitor users and track users by website they came from and pages that they visited. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Alumni Management | |||
| Allow Alumni to register and sign into the system. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Create web pages for use by the Alumni. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Maintain a database of local chapters and officers. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Create Chat Rooms (public and private) | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Create Bulletin Boards | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Create News and Announcements pages. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Parents | |||
| Register and manage childrens account. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Access performance data, notes from teachers, assignments, scores | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Submit homework help questions. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Rate and provide feedback on instructors. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Convenient online payment. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Alumni Officers | |||
| Access to private chat rooms | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Start a new chat room | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Upload information files and announcements | ♦ | ♦ | |
| View logged in members | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Directly interact with anyone logged in | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Communications | |||
| Instant messaging | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Personal Email | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Teleconferencing | optional | optional | optional |
| Voice over IP (Multimedia headphones required) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Chat rooms (public and private) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Online Voting | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Online Polling | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Uploads and Downloads | |||
| Place files on the website for download | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Import Photos | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Import and Export Files | |||
| Students can upload assignments to the teacher. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Teachers can upload assignments for students to view and download. | ♦ | ♦ | |
| PDF's, Wav, Tiff, and a variety of file type can be uploaded by teacher, including video streaming. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Events Calendar | |||
| Private Calendars for all users. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Shared Calendars input from authorized roles. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Financial Gateway | |||
| Accept dues online | optional | optional | optional |
| Receive donations online | optional | optional | optional |
| Students can pay before taking a class or tutoring | optional | optional | optional |
| Technical | |||
| MS-SQL | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| COM Model | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Windows Server | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| HTML and ASP | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Multi-Server Data and data capability | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Bandwidth management | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Daily backups | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Secure System - Anti Virus | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |