Epsilen Environment is also the only learning management system that brings members together in a global network. Members can join workgroups or personal and professional groups on campus or across the miles, and communicate using the sophisticated set of Web 2.0 tools. Faculty can create and share every aspect of their teaching environment-syllabi, lesson plans, resources, tests, documents, and more.

Flexible Course Management

Course management tools and intuitive wizards let faculty easily create syllabi and lessons, and add text, multimedia, websites, and videos, as well as content from over 150 years of the New York Times available in the New York Times Content Repository.

They can create lessons at any time and make them available to students as desired, either manually or on a set date.

Collaborative Web 2.0 Tools

Faculty and students enjoy access to a wide range of collaborative networking tools for use in every course—including blogs, wikis, forums, and chats—directly connected with the Epsilen gradebook.

Faculty can assign collaborative class projects, and students can use the tools to complete joint projects and communicate outside of class.

Multiple Workgroups

Faculty can create and manage multiple student groups, each with a private interface and its own toolset for online collaboration, and invite outside experts to join the workgroup as needed. Students collaborate in a secure learning environment using Post-its, files, wikis, and forums. Workgroups can be made up of students from one course or across different courses.

Completed workgroup projects can be sent directly to the instructor, who can grade work in the workgroup, with grades sent automatically to the gradebook.

Course Drop Boxes

Students use the Epsilen drop boxes to submit assignments, and faculty use them as a repository from which students can upload assignments.

The drop box tool provides a time-sensitive, secure repository to which students upload their assignment files. They can also set permissions to allow other students to view their files on an individual document basis as desired.

Educators can assign drop boxes for a complete course or for individual lesson plans or projects. They can lock drop boxes to prevent new uploads once the assignment period has expired and unlock again as desired.

They can also grade assignments directly from the drop boxes, with grades sent automatically to the gradebook.

Streamlined Course Communications

Using the Epsilen announcement, email, or course calendar features, faculty can communicate with the whole class, specified workgroups, or individual students as desired. Course announcements appear on the student course home page and are visible upon login.

Integrated Gradebook

The Epsilen gradebook allows faculty to manage and display course grades, review student ranking in each course, and evaluate student statistics.

Students earn participation grades by writing in blogs, and faculty save time by evaluating student work in the blogs without directly accessing the gradebook. Faculty can also track the amount of writing in the blogs and view a course activity report for each student.

The gradebook automatically tracks other participation statistics such as the number of comments posted in forums and other online activities.