BigGyan Cloud eLearning for Distance Learning
Distance learning (correspondence
course) is the poor cousin of classroom
based learning. It has been used to teach
almost every subject. Distance learning
has its advantages but has a major
disadvantage because of the industry does
not treat these courses at par with normal
classroom courses. The reason is that
even though the students study the same
content and write similar exams but there
is some fundamental difference between
the two pedagogical techniques.
The buzz word is "interactivity." This is what distinguishes distance learning from
classroom based study. elearning solves the problem by making a virtual classroom for a
distance learning and brings it at par with normal classroom based study.
With BigGyan the distance in distance learning is reduced greatly.
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Online Classroom
Online course management (Student Portal)
Interesting course material
24X7 support to students
BigGyan Services
Environment Friendly
Online Classroom
Online Course Material
The entire course curriculum is stored online. Students have 24X7 access to the content.
This is especially useful during exams, as students do not have to worry about lost notes,
assignments. They can feel safe that they all the content.
More Interaction

Students have support of their course managers and peers as and when they require it.
They can do group activities online, discuss assignments online, share and solve
problems during exam preparation.
- Forums
- Chats
- Dimdim - Web Meetings (Online lectures)
- Group activities
Online course management
(Student Portal)
BigGyan reduces work of course managers by helping them manage various aspects of
courses with cool online tools. Course managers can minimize time spent to perform
admin chores for courses.
- Assignments
- Online Gradebook
- Database
- Online Quizzes

Assignments
Course managers can collect assignments from students online, review it and provide
feedback including grades. The grades automatically are fed into online Gradebook of the
students. Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-
processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips. Assignments do not
necessarily have to consist of file uploads; teachers can ask students to type directly into
online text editor available in BigGyan.
Online Gradebook
BigGyan offers a very flexible Gradebook, which can be used to fit any specific
requirements. Course managers can change the ways in which grades are calculated,
aggregated and displayed, as well as means to change the grades manually. Various types
of reports can be generated. Further, grades can be exported to MS Excel spreadsheet,
OpenDocument spreadsheet, plain text file or XML file for record purposes.
Database
Course managers can build searchable repositories. A common use of this module is for
storing past exam papers, activities for students to do or print out, or collections of
students’ work.
Online Quizzes
BigGyan offers a powerful tool for conducting online quizzes. Course managers can
design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types (multiple choice,
true-false, and short answer questions etc.). These questions are kept in the course
Question bank and can be re-used within courses and between courses. Quizzes can allow
multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the course manager can
choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers. BigGyan also allows
you to shuffle questions within quizzes and to shuffle choices in multiple-choice
questions. Even randomly generated quizzes from pools of questions. The quizzes can be
timed so that students have to finish the quizzes in specific time only.
When teacher want to prepare an offline exam, they can just pull out questions from the
question bank and printout the quiz.

Interesting course material
Multimedia content
Course managers can include multimedia content - videos, interactive animations,
presentations (ppt), and images to enhance their course curriculum and make learning for
their students more fun. BigGyan offers tools to use any type of content with their
courses.
BigGyan Search
BigGyan search engine was created using Google Search Technology. Internet is filled
up with low quality content. Nobody wants low quality content especially when it is
being used for education purposes. BigGyan search provides only good quality content. It
also groups content into lecture notes, videos, presentations, pdfs, tests, quizzes. So you
can quickly reach the content you are looking for.
Rapid Course Development
With web 2.0, lot of websites have come up where people share various types of content.
Ex. YouTube, Teachertube, Metacafe, Vimeo for videos; Slideshare for presentations;
Scribd, Docstoc, Issuu for documents, Odeo for audio. The buzzword "User generated
content" has created revolution and changed the character of internet totally. Course
managers can search for content on these sites using BigGyan Search and easily include
the relevant content in their course.
BigGyan Services
BigGyan provides professional services to help you implement eLearning at your
institute. Our trained professional staff is equipped to support all our client’s
requirements. Institutes may not employ additional IT staff for activities surrounding
BigGyan eLearning.
BigGyan provides following services:
Fully Maintained Installation
Fail-safe Data Backup
Resolve Issues
Data Entry Services
Digitization of printed material
Training Services
Content Authoring
Instruction Designing
Course creation - SCORM compliant, IMS

Environment Friendly
Helps cut down Treeware
Treeware refers to all content printed or written on papers. BigGyan helps course
managers and students to cut their treeware significantly. This is not only environment
friendly but also saves costs and is more convenient as teachers and students are not
required to carry content of paper wherever they need. No need to maintain content on
paper. No chances of losing the content.