GoGoEd - Product Features

Class Lessons:

Supports unlimited number of lessons
Upload any word processing document with pictures and/or diagrams as a lesson, and the system will convert it to a class lesson
Embedded WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editor for enhanced editing
Easily incorporate images and documents into your lesson via quick-access icon
Easily embed flash documents, images, video, sound files, and other plug-in types
Set Lesson Activities: associate unlimited number of Exams, Assignments, Surveys, Polls, Documents, Forum Postings to any lesson, and set what items are required before a student can move forward to the next lesson
Easily sort (or re-sort) lesson content into any order
Set Class Lesson visibility (prevent students from seeing lessons in development)
Associate lesson content to class discussions to encourage collaboration of ideas
Set lesson availability: a. always available, b. lesson available after previous lesson completed, c. lesson available after x number of days student has been enrolled in course
Set a sample lesson to encourage external visitors not enrolled in the course to see what a typical lesson looks like
Easily search, copy, edit, and delete lessons with an instructor-friendly interface. Import lessons from CSV (text files), or use a variety of mass entry form options to quickly add lessons content from a single page

Exams:

Supports unlimited number of exams
Supports unlimited number of questions per exam
Create Multiple Choice, True/False, Fill-in-the-Blank, Essay questions
Randomize questions
Redirect students to appropriate lesson material when a satisfactory grade is not reached
Import/Export Exams and Question as needed
Embedded WYSIWYG Editor for enhanced editing--embed HTML and graphics as needed
Exam results can be emailed to instructor for fast-response
Auto-Correct feature allows instructors to provide explanations to students when an answer is incorrect
Never miss a submitted exam with the Communication Log
Enhanced interface makes it easy to review and assess submitted exams and provide high quality feedback
Exams can be set to be taken only once, or set to be taken multiple times

Assignments:

Supports unlimited number of assignments
Grading is easy through the Communication Log, and through the Assignment Submission Log
Provide enhanced feedback to students after reviewing any assignment with an embedded WYSIWYG Editor
Set an assignment explanation to use when students do not achieve mastery, for easy administration
Assignments can be emailed to instructors for fast-response
Specify Due-Dates, set automatic emails to notify students of assignment deadlines
Students can upload any document when submitting assignments
Assignments may be set to allow "re-submission" if student work is unsatisfactory
Import Assignments from CSV files, and/or use a variety of mass entry form options to quickly add assignment content from a single page

Surveys

Supports unlimited number of surveys/unlimited number of questions per survey
Results can be emailed to course instructors and/or downloaded to a CSV file for analysis in Excel, SPSS, etc.
Multiple question/answer formats available, including: Multiple Choice, Yes/No, Short Answer/Long Answer
Ability to select multiple options (checkbox selection), or force only one choice (radio selection), and allow users to enter 'other' criteria
Easily integrate surveys as a requirement for lesson completion
Redirect students to appropriate lesson after successful survey completion

Polls

Supports unlimited number of Polls
WYSIWYG editor for enhanced editing
Instructors can easily add, edit, copy, delete and search polls
Upload your polls via a CSV (text file). Add several polls on one screen via the Mass Entry forms.
Extract your polls into a CSV file and import them into another course
Clearly track student responses in an easy to read bar graph, as well as extract results in a CSV file for analysis in Excel, SPSS, etc.

Netlinks

Enhance your course content by linking to additional web resources
Smart Netlink system ensures your Netlinks stay current
Create unlimited number of Netlinks to additional website
Easily group and categorize Netlinks for easier access by students
Integrate Class Netlinks into your course content: lessons, assignments, announcements, etc.

Communications

Announcements
- Create unlimited number of announcements
- WYSIWYG editor for enhanced editing
- Instructors can easily post, update, copy, delete, email and search class announcements
- Set high priority announcements to be made visible on the Class Start Page
- Keep students up to date on current course activities
Class Forums
- Create unlimited topic discussions
- Instructor postings are marked differently from student postings, allowing a student to see how the instructor has replied to a topic
- Attach threaded discussions to lesson material, allowing seamless integration from lesson content into class discussion
- Use the WYSIWYG editor for enhanced editing
- Add a customized signature to every post, identify your posting with character
- Move messages from one topic to another--giving you greater ability to group similar discussions together, particularly when students post out of topic
- Advance search capabilities--easily find a message using keyword searches
- Threaded discussions are easily accessed on a single page, and laid out in chronological order. Students will not get lost looking for message replies
- Easily change order of discussion topic list
- Support of Moderation option - approve message postings by email
- Enable email alerts to notify you when someone responds to a particular thread
Class Email
- Use the WYSIWYG editor for enhanced editing
- Support for uploading attachments
- Broadcast email messages to the entire course, groups of students, or to a single individual
- Inbox full? All emails sent by students are logged in the Email Log for easy reference and backup
Live Chat
- Fully integrated, Membership-based Java chat feature
- User-friendly, Intuitive Interface
- Create unlimited number for rooms
- "Buddy" List allows you to instant message friends currently online
- Supports your current online profile information
- Supports Private Messaging
- Supports Blocking of Members
- Fully customizable by end-user: easily change color, font, scroll speed, and sounds
- Select your own icon to use when chatting online
- Supports a comprehensive set of 'emoticons'
- Chat Transcript feature allows you to view all chat history within a specific course
File Sharing
- Upload unlimited number for files
- Easily group and categorize files for easy access
- Set permissions on uploaded files - make it viewable by "Instructor Only", or a Specific Student, or a Group of Students
- Easily integrated uploaded files--documents, images, etc.--into your other course content
Email Rules
- Create an unlimited number of email rules
- Create instructional and personalized emails to students and set their delivery schedule
- Choose two different types of schedules: deliver emails on a specific date, or after a certain number of days enrolled in the course
- Use the WYSIWYG editor for enhanced editing
- Supports file attachments
- The easy-to-use interface allows you to mass enter several rules at once or upload your email rules from a CSV file
- Easily Search, Edit, View, and Extract your email rules to use with this course, or another

Assessment

Grade Book
- Create an unlimited number of items to be assessed
- Easily associate a point value (and a corresponding grade book entry) to any item: lesson, assignment, announcement, etc.
- Exams are automatically placed into the grade book based on the total point-values you've assigned to each exam question
- Easily Add, Edit, Delete, Search, Extract, Upload, and Mass Enter grade book entries.
- Set Auto-Grade policies, such as triggering a point value for after a particular student action: (student completes poll / receives 5 point credit on poll assessment)
- Set certificate policies: award different types of certificates/awards when student achieve mastery throughout the course
Progress Reports
- One-touch view allows you to see a summary of a particular student's progress in a bar graph
- Email student progress reports to student or a third-party (great for keeping parents and/or employers informed of a student's progress)
- View summary of all student activity on one screen: track date-time and completion status of lessons, assignments, exams, surveys, polls, etc.
- Clearly view what submissions still require assessment
Rubric Manager
- Create an unlimited number of rubric templates for assessing student submissions, or use just one for the entire course
- Create and customize your own rubric, or use any of our pre-filled rubric templates
- Set rubrics to manage specific standards from any number of organizations--know exactly what organization standards a student has met based on your rubric evaluation
- Rubrics can have any number of columns and rows
Award Manager
- Set Award Policies
- Choose from 7 Award Types:
  - Certificate of Attendance
  - Certificate of Class Participation
  - Certificate of Appreciation
  - Certificate of Merit
  - Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
  - Certificate of Academic Excellence
  - Certificate of Course Completion
Overview of student accomplishments recorded, including final grade, exam scores, assignment submissions, and days visited
Associate an Award with a specific rubric assessment
Track issued awards with a serial number for third party verification of award information, and password protect contents to secure information

Class Administration

Easy to use, and requires no programming skills from instructors and/or site administrators
Fully hosted solution--clients do not need to worry about hardware, bandwidth, scalability, security or upgrades
100% compatible with generation 4+ browsers (Netscape 4.0+, IE 4.0+, Safari, Mozilla, Opera, etc.)
Supports unlimited number of instructors, courses, and students
Completely customizable--change all colors and fonts to match your layout and design. Change "high" and "low" templates for any page so you can "wrap" your design around the learning environment. Customize all buttons and menu navigation. Customize any page/view of the platform with your own content, redirect any page to another area or website, remove a page, and/or add a page.
Import/Export XML feeds--supports API for importing and exporting courses in XML files--great for converting third party content into a Course Lightning online class
Backup/Restore--backup your course to a file and save on your local hard drive--just as easily restore the file to an existing course or a create a new course