EDU 2.0 is a cloud-based e-learning platform that is free for teachers. It allows instructors to create online classes, lessons, assignments, quizzes and assessments. The platform provides analytics on student progress and supports various collaboration tools. Technical support is available through an online forum and direct assistance. The platform is designed to be easy to use on both desktop and mobile devices.

1. E-Learning Platform
By: Mary Barefoot
EDU 2.0 www.edu20.org

2. EDU 2.0 IS A CLOUD HOSTING PLATFORM
There’s nothing to download, install, or
maintain.
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3. FREE FOR TEACHERS
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 Free
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unlimited
storage for
teachers up
to 2000 Easy sign-up.
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4. INSTRUCTOR-LED AND OTHER CLASSES
 Rich support for
instructor-
led, blended, and self-
paced classes
 Create lessons
connected to state and
common core standards
that include multimedia
content, a wide variety of
assignment types, and
track student
proficiencies
 Assignments can be set
up as gateways, which
means that students
cannot proceed to the
next lesson until a
specified threshold score

5. ASSESSMENT
Several types of assessments, including quizzes, freeform, debates and
discussions, question banks, timed quizzes, and answer feedback
 Quizzes
 Question banks
 Surveys
 Attendance
 Offline
 Freeform
 Rubrics
 Student notes with configurable
visibility
 Debates
 Discussion assignments
 Team assignments
 Dropbox assignments
 Extra credit assignments bcps.org
 Personalized assignments

6. ANALYZING AND REPORTING STUDENT
PROGRESS  Chart student progress through lessons
 Chart student progress through
 a teacher can
graphically see assignments
student progress  Chart student scores
through a class's  Site statistics
lessons and  Student activity timeline
assignments, or  Class enrollment report
through an individual  Class completion report
assignment.
 You can see a
timeline of a
student's activities
within a class, as well
as a report of
enrollment, status,
and completion.
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7. EASY TO FIND LESSONS AND STUDENTS
 Go straight to the current
lesson
 Hover over names and
send a message or click
Skype for a video
conference or chat.
 Classes organized by
category and have tabs
for lessons, calendar,
forums, blogs, and wikis.
 Lessons easily created
and downloaded
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8. RESOURCES FOR CREATING LESSONS
 Text/HTML
 Images
 Videos (edu 2.0 provides the video hosting)
 Audio
 Slideshows
 Google apps integration
 Badge integrations with Facebook and Twitter
 Audio Recording
 Moodle Import

9. BUILT-IN COLLABORATION TOOLS
 Groups
 Forum
 Blogs
 Chat rooms
 Wikis
 Video conferencing
using Skype
 News and activities
feeds
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10. COLLABORATION FEATURES
 Groups: A group is a place for members to meet and collaborate.
Examples include study groups, interest groups, school groups, and
class groups
 Forum: Several areas of the site, such as classes and groups, have
forums for discussions. Discussions are threaded so it's easy to
follow a conversation.
 Blogs: A blog is an online journal for sharing your thoughts with
others. This site supports personal blogs, class blogs and group
blogs.
 Chat Rooms: A chat room allows members to exchange text
messages in real time. Classes and groups have their own private
chat rooms. You can also initiate a chat directly with a user if they are
online
 Wikis: A wiki is a collection of pages that more than one person can
edit. The history for each page is kept so that you can see the edits
and who made them. In addition, you can restore a page to one of its
previous versions.

11. ALL FEATURES ARE EASY TO USE
Just hover
over the
feature and
you will see
the basic
information.
Click on
that
information
and it takes
you there.
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12. FEATURES
Reporting and
Portal analytics
Mobile Curricula and
Classes Proficiencies
Lessons Certification
Assessment Home page
Quizzes Messaging
Gradebook Web conferencing
Collaboration Monitoring School
SCORM Districts
Account management E-commerce
Teaching assistants Portfolios
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Parents Internationalization
Integration
Cloud hosted
Support

13. TECH SUPPORT
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 The community support forum can be accessed by
anyone and allows members to help each other with
issues.
 Direct access to the technical support staff.
 If you have any kind of question, suggestion, or bug
report, visit the help area by clicking the icon in the
side bar or the Help/support links in the footer of
every page.
 You can access the technical support staff by clicking
on the support icon. They respond to questions within
a few hours during US business hours.
 You can also click on the community support icon and
see if other members can help you.

14. OVERVIEW
 Support is always available by the on-
line support board
 Use your own URL, customize the
sight,
 Enable communications monitoring
that scan offensive words and reports
the resource.
 Analyzing and reporting data: such as
how many students have visited a
lesson and how long they stayed on
the lesson.
 Curriculum and profeciences: you can
create a lesson that matches state
and common core standards and can
be customized, organzied in
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 Instructor-led Classes
 Keeps the focus on collaboration and
communication

15. OVERVIEW
 Digital certificates can be
automatically created when a class is
completed.
 E-commerce allows teachers to
charge for certain classes and lets
you track customers and their
purchases.
 Integrate with external systems such
as google apps, moodle import and
others.
 Reports can be generated to see
how well students are understanding
each profeciency and allows
students to track their own
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 Self-paced classes can be created
and the student can easily focus on
the lessons.
 Groups established quickly.

16. OVERVIEW
 Provide a wide range of build-in
reports
 All features can be accessed using a
mobile device.
 Designed to be seen clearly on tablets.
 Easy to import and export accounts
 Parent accounts and full support for
those accounts
 Resources can be shared with other
campuses.
 Built-in portfolio system for each
student to put in their own library,
share with others, and showcase their
work. caribexams.org
 Supports a wide range of languages.
 Analyzing and reporting data: such as
how many students have visited a
lesson and how long they stayed on
the lesson.

17. RESULTS
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18. Lesley University
ECOMP 6203
Online Teaching: Building Communities &
Facilitating Student Discussions
Dr. Adrianne Hunt
Created by: Mary Barefoot