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