1. TECH 4211 Educational Software/Website Evaluation<br />Student Name: Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Fajrani Date:7/3/2011<br />Name, Type, and Date of Publication of Software: Central Desktop Website, Learning Management System<br />Instructions: Using the criteria below, evaluate an educational software or website. Use the categories below and assign a number value to each assessment using the scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. Following each category, provide your comments. <br />Correctness (Number Score) 8<br />Comments:<br />This website is provide all options that teachers and students needs so this website conforms to Learning Management System's specification and each features that provide in this website supported by video to clarify the unclear function. Also there is a training service to Learn how to get the most from Central Desktop with flexible training options for end users and administrators.<br />Reliability Number Score) 9<br />Comments:<br />This website is updated and provide accurate information about how can we use the features to facilitate learning process. Also the main purpose of this website is to enhance the way students collaborate, communicate and share ideas. Additionally, CD-BSE provides the professor with a portal for monitoring student projects and activity across all classes.<br />Efficiency (Number Score) 10<br />Comments:<br />Through this website, we can navigate easily during and there are many options provided to download the content to be learned in offline as a students and the teacher will able to update the content from time to time. More than that the layout is more accessible and interactive<br />Integrity (Number Score) 9<br />Comments:<br />Customer's website data is secure with Central Desktop. The Central Desktop platform runs on a proven infrastructure designed to provide maximum security performance and reliability. The security and integrity of your data are integral to the success of customer's institution and the reputation of hiser business.<br />http://www.centraldesktop.com/i/corp/Central_Desktop_Enterprise_Security.pdf<br />Usability (Number Score) 8<br />Comments:<br />This website is more accessible so it provide options to navigate through the pages of this website so the user can easy to use, communicate, share idea and upload the content<br />Maintainability (Number Score) 10<br />When customers face any problem of using CentralDesktop, there is a support team will help himer to solve this problem. <br />Testability (Number Score) 6<br />Comments:<br />There are some limitations to create tests, quizzes but professor can provide students projects and students will able to achieve these projects in website.<br />Expandability (Number Score) 8<br />Comments:<br />The main feature of this website is providing its customer with expanding capacity so in field of education, professor will able to add many contents and many members in hiser account in order to be able achieve the works<br />Portability, reusability and interoperability<br /> (Number Score) 7<br />Comments: The user will be able to download the content and use it in offline ways so hehe able to take some content for this website. In field of education professor will able to reuse the content in different courses. <br />
