• Manage users, roles, courses, instructors, and facilities and generate reports
  
• Course calendar
  
• Learner messaging, email and notifications
  
• Assessment/testing capable of handling student testing
  
• Display scores and grades
  
• Grading of coursework and roster processing
  
• Web-based course delivery
  

User Manager

The Manage module monitors access control, allowing seamless, customizable access to authorized users. The module creates new users, assigns and manages user groups. In addition, this module is capable of allowing users to assume default and custom user roles. More than being a mere administrative console, the Manage modules provides users with advanced personalizing options, allowing a huge degree of control over their personal environments. For example each user can view pages according to their individual preferences. Superior permissions check functionalities and role based control of content and services access are assured. Further, the Manage module maintains audit logs, reports user logins, logouts, changes to profile and user security settings for enhanced administrator manageability.

Course Manager

The Course Manager serves as the central point of access for course administration in NILE. It enrolls and provides access to tutors and registered learners to relevant courses. It assists in the creation and maintenance of the courses. Easy-to-use templates provide flexible tools for course creation and management of curriculum structures. Increased flexibility is offered to Program Managers to upload information and sharable documents. Features include support for sequencing of chapters and lessons to form well-structured courses. Course Manager supports smooth running and efficient delivery of your courses - including the scheduling of the courses and their duration. The course Catalog displays the list of offered courses from which learners could select courses they would like to enroll in.

Content Manager

Content Manager ensures well-configured, well-structured and customized content. Content creation features allow WYSIWIG editing tools with rich text editing interfaces. This makes your courses look inviting as well as facilitates better knowledge retention. Content can be presented in sequences; allowing administrators to set customizable learning paths. Also, existing courses in traditional formats can be easily transformed to eCourse content. Improved data structures allow content to be bookmarked and easily retrieved using keywords. High-end tracking and repurposing of content have been made very simple operations in NILE. Personalized hyperlinks can provide quick access to online content that is relevant to each learner based on his/her individual learning patterns and abilities. Besides learner notes, learners are given options to maintain personal Learner notes. Efficient versioning keeps shared files backed up and secure.

Test Manager

The Test Manager supports auto-scoring of assessments. NILE allows tutors to easily and quickly create assessments from scratch or offers the facility of drawing up question papers from repositories of predefined or personalized 'question banks'. The module supports the use of varied question types like True/False, multiple choices, etc. This module also allows instructors to deliver results of assessments and surveys online. The system provides total support for custom grading scales, grade weighting, item analysis and multiple grade-book views. Test Manager assists faculty in publishing and displaying individual and group performance reports.

Collaborate

NILE 2006 ensures high levels of learner collaboration and efficient program management. Through Personal Chats, Chat Rooms, e-Mail, Polling, Presentations, Discussion Forums and FAQs, the learners can interact with tutors, mentors and others peer group members. Learners and faculty may assemble and easily route learning materials like files and relevant online content to be shared among groups. Synchronous interaction is supported. Text & Voice-based Chat, Audio & Video Conferencing, Online Whiteboard and, Online Presentations are some of the tools which enable real-time live interaction between tutors and learners; and among learners. Utility tools like Personal Diary, Notice Board, Scheduler, Intelligent Search, and Help are just some of the value added utility features provided in NILE.

Reports

The Reports module of NILE provides a ready and sharable view of learner progress. The reports can be formatted in comprehensive patterns for easy viewing, before they are displayed or sent to specific program participants. For e.g. after assessment, analyses can be viewed in the form of charts listing names of users who have been assessed, along with their Rankings. Besides indicating learning patterns and the frequency of participants reviewing specific content items, it also enables usage data to be viewed for an entire course. Performance results of groups - for e.g. batches, departments - can also be calculated and displayed quickly. All assessment results are stored in secure locations for future references.