TALMOS Connect

Talmos Connect offers fantastic creative control enabling teachers, admin staff and pupils to fully embed their learning platform into the school's everyday working practices.

Teachers are able to manage and deliver lessons and homework directly from their timetable. They are able to collaborate and share resources across departments, the school and even authority wide. Teachers can access their personal work space and networked resources from home enabling them to plan at their convenience. students can access their assignments and personal work areas from home removing the need for pen drives. Users are quickly able to edit documents through the portal as they are working.

Students are able to access resources such as the library system, revision and assessment systems, as well secure classroom safe content. surveys, forums, wikis and blogs encourage discussion and debate in a safe and secure environment.

To enhance teaching we provide the following functionality:

Lesson Planning tool - set, receive and mark, lessons, homework and facilitate cover
Quick assignment – put resources directly onto the timetable for instant homework setting or provision of specific resources
Templates – create templates for speedy website creation and accessibility of resources
Homework Tracker – enable teachers and students to view progress of work, submission, marking and commentary
Markbook – student and class views of issued and completed homework
SCORM Compliant Upload

To promote integration we provide the following functionality:

Access to my Documents and any network drives and resources both in and out of school
Access third party resources such as revision tools , library systems and content wherever you are with a single login
Edit documents through the portal as you work without the fuss of having to download, upload or overwrite
Full MIS integration enabling student groups, lessons and homework to be managed and delivered through your timetable

To encourage personalised learning we provide the following functionality:

Access unlimited resources, lessons, forums and content to add to your homework and assignments
Access subject specific resources from easy to use departmental areas
Student Council: Create an area to collaborate and display information using notice boards, forums, RSS feeds and podcasts
i-space: personal portfolio to create organise and display work

To encourage secure social networking we provide the following functionality:

RSS feeds which can be displayed on web pages and screens throughout school
Forums: enable staff to discuss and debate
Student Voice: create a safe area for students to access news, events, updates and debate current topics
Create self-marking quizzes, surveys and questionaires

Modules

SharePoint Portal:

Based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 this offers users single sign onto their personal dashboard using their Active Directory username and password. This enables users to access school services such email, MIS, library, content and more without the need to logon again.

The user dashboard contains a mix of personal and general information coming from different sources. With the use of SIMS Web Parts teachers have read / write access to SIMS and parents can see their own child’s attendance, assessment and behaviour information as well as lesson plans plus homework status and detail.

Built into the platform is the unlimited use of wikis, forums, blogs and surveys and the ability to create web pages for curriculum and class sites.

SIMS Web Parts:

This technology enables SIMS to be web based. Teachers have read / write access to Assessment Manager, Attendance, Behaviour and Profiles. Parents are able to see their own child’s attendance, assessment and behaviour information and they can also see reports created from Assessment Manager.

Timetable Web Part:

The MIS integration software integrates the users and groups with Active Directory and displays an attractive timetable for each user. The timetable can be used as an interface to launch other modules such as LaunchPad or Homework Tracker. This intuitive interface can also be used to link to class sites using ClassConnect or subject sites.

Parents and students also see the timetable on their dashboards and permission can be granted to enable teachers to see other teachers’ timetables.

QuickLink:

This tool enables teachers and students to access their My Documents on the school network and network shared resources from outside of school. Users are able to open documents on the school network, edit them and save them directly back to the network.

LaunchPad:

LaunchPad enables a teacher to attach lesson plans onto their timetable. They can deliver their lessons directly from their timetable and make resources available for students to view. This module automatically creates a “Lesson View” by launching a simple editing tool with the attached resources embedded within it. This enables the teacher to enter lesson objects and images to make the lesson more visual.

Homework Tracker:

Homework Tracker enables a teacher to set a homework task to the full class or to individual students enabling differentiation. Homework can be a simple instruction or a whole set of resources. This module includes a comprehensive tracking system which includes an electronic mark book for the teacher and a homework diary for the students. The status of individual homework tasks for individual students can be completely tracked from handout to completion.

i-space:

i-space is a secure personalised learning space. This module is ideal for schools looking for a product to meet ILP requirements. These areas provide a space for assignments and course work, a blogging area, a place for collaborative work and a means for a student to monitor their own attainment on a real time basis.

Third Party Integration:

Our basic installation includes integration with other schools systems such as Microsoft Exchange, web mail and existing VLEs such as Moodle.

We have also developed Web Parts for other third part content companies such as I Am Learning and Vivo. These Web Parts enable these systems to be integrated within the portal and are accessed through the single sign on system. Other partners include Eclipse.net and Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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