• Course list: provides access to each course available to the user
• Access to all mail messages for all course sections
• Calendar (Daily items and link to complete calendar)
• My Grades
• Personal Bookmarks
• Personal To Do List
• Who’s Online (see below)

Who’s Online:

• Lists class members who are currently logged in to eLearning.
• Users may decide to be Online/Available, Online/Unavailable, or Invisible.

Announcements:

• Create announcements presented to students on announcements page
• Optional announcement popups when entering course

IMPROVED FEATURES IN ELEARNING
Chat and Whiteboard

• Improved chat tool
• Whiteboard with Chat
• Can have private rooms
• Can schedule when rooms appear
• Hand-raising option in chat
• Create as many rooms as you need

Gradable discussions:

• Assign letter or numeric grades to discussion posts.
• View all posts by a student, compare student’s participation to class average, and assign grade all on one screen
• New discussion types available: Blogs and Journals

File upload and management:

• Upload multiple files at once

Grade Book view changes:

• Freeze name columns while scrolling through columns
• Highlight individual row

More control over links and their descriptions

• Annotate any link or discussion topic with free text to help students determine how to use link and reduce the need for explanatory documents or messages
• Put links for discussion topics, assignments, quizzes, and web links right in your content table of contents

Real student view

• View course materials and complete assessments and assignments as a student
• Student view updated automatically

More convenient tools

• All tools can be listed under the Course Tools menu on the left – similar to the toolbar concept in other applications

Improved calendar incorporation

• Automatically post a calendar message when creating assignments and quizzes