User:Crissycochran/sandbox

My Big Campus is a social learning platform designed specifically for education.

Features

My Big Campus provides features for sharing and collaborating:


 * Educational Resource Library with thousands of videos, wikis, documents, and websites.
 * Authenticated user access to ensure AUPs are strictly enforced.
 * Multiple user type profiles (Student, Teacher, and Administrator).
 * School, Group, and User profiles with walls, events lists, and more.
 * Granular reporting on individual user activity, inappropriate content or suspicious words.
 * Customizable permissions and settings.
 * CIPA-compliant filtering of pornography.
 * Private file storage with virus scanning and skin-tone analysis.
 * Interception of English and Spanish profanity.
 * SIS integration.
 * Integrate with Active Directory and existing filtering policies.
 * Video help tutorials on basic tasks and key tools.
 * Advanced search by grade levels, type of content, and more.
 * Digital classroom tools to manage assignments and student homework submissions.
 * Calendars to aide in organization.
 * Collections, to organize resources from the library into sets based on topic or lesson.
 * Connection capabilities to allow users to Interact with others based on shared interests.
 * Access to peers within the group lounges, to share ideas and provide professional feedback.
 * Familiar interfaces and vocabulary for easier use.
 * Blogging and closed messaging.
 * Easy-to-use assessment and quizzing
 * Anytime, anywhere access.

Virtual Classooms

My Big Campus allows students & teachers to create virtual classrooms for learning, communicating, & collaborating. Students and teachers can gather and resources from its educational resource library which includes hundreds of thousands of educational, links, documents, videos, wikis, etc. Online communication & collaboration can take place in My Big Campus by creating groups, blogs and utilizing the messaging system. Teachers and students can easily manage their class assignments and school tasks from start to finish, from the moment the teacher assigns a task through to completion, submission, and grading.

Security

Teachers can create standalone accounts in My Big Campus for their classrooms. Or district-wide versions of My Big Campus can be integrated with the Lightspeed System's web filter which creates an even safer online environment for teachers and students with access to additional management & reporting features. Additional security features include:
 * Teacher & student accounts are verified (no anonymity allowed)
 * Activity is monitored and reported
 * English & Spanish profanity is intercepted
 * Uploaded files are virus-scanned
 * Uploaded images are scanned for flesh tone analysis
 * Site mentor, Bob Campus, site mentor, monitors activity and reports back to authorized district contacts if he sees an emergency situation

History

My Big Campus was created by Lightspeed Systems' developers in 2009. The beta version was released in November 2009 with current Lightspeed Systems' customers. Official version was released in February 2010. In July 2011, My Big Campus was made available to teachers and students everywhere.