| More and more students are participating
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| | classroom will still need software that
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| in classes offered over the Internet.
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| | enables them to write papers, send email,
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| Although an exact number has not been
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| | browse the Internet, and perform other
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| compiled, reliable sources estimate that
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| | common computer tasks. A Course
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| between a half million and a million
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| | Management System goes beyond these tasks
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| students from kindergarten through high
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| | to support the actual process of teaching
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| school take one or more courses online.
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| | and learning. For example, the Course
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| Just as a physical classroom contains a
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| | Management System, sometimes called a
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| chalkboard on which teachers and students
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| | learning management system, provides a
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| work out lessons, a Course Management
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| | mechanism for taking attendance in
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| System is a suite of software that serves
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| | courses in which students log-in on their
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| as the infrastructure these students and
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| | own schedule and are not necessarily
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| their teachers need to work online.
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| | online at the same time as the teacher.
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| The Course Management System is not the
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| | It also provides technology that allows
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| Course
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| | the teacher to give assignments, track
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| The software suite that most people are
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| | student participation, and grade some
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| familiar with is Microsoft Office. A
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| | types of work electronically.
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| small business owner might use several
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| | The Course Management System Facilitates
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| Office programs in the course of a single
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| | Interaction
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| day: writing a letter in Word to a
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| | Some online courses, called asynchronous,
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| customer asking for an appointment to
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| | allow students to log-in on their own
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| make a PowerPoint presentation on a new
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| | individual schedule. Others, called
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| product; adding the product to the Access
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| | synchronous, bring the class online all
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| inventory database; and calculating the
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| | at a set time, along with the teacher. A
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| profit margin in an Excel spreadsheet.
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| | Course Management System can be used for
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| The software suite enables the business
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| | both types of classes. Importantly, the
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| owner to do his or her job, but the
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| | Course Management System facilitates
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| software itself was not created by the
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| | student-teacher and student-student
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| business owner and is not the same thing
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| | interaction in both types of courses.
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| as the business. In fact, the same
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| | In an asynchronous course, interaction
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| software can be used by many businesses.
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| | among students and with the teacher might
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| Similarly, Course Management Systems
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| | occur via email messages, bulletin
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| enable teachers of online classes to do
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| | boards, or threaded discussions, all
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| their jobs. The teacher does not need to
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| | supported by the content management
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| develop the Course Management System, but
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| | system. In a synchronous course,
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| can use it as a tool to deliver course
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| | real-time web chats or video conferencing
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| material. The Course Management System is
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| | are possible communication tools. For
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| separate from the subject matter of the
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| | example, IQity's Course Management System
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| course, and it can be used with many
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| | includes a LiveBoard that enables an
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| different types of classes.
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| | entire class of students to watch the
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| A Course Management System is a Suite of
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| | teacher in real-time via web-conferencing
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| Educational Tools
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| | and hold a class discussion through an
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| Teachers and students in a virtual
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| | annotation feature.
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