Web Crossing, Inc. Ships Campus Crossing 3.0 with New Faculty Office.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers E-Learning 2003 Booth #110 WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2003 Online Education and Training Suite Leverages New Easy Customization and Plug-Ins Architecture, Adds Interactive Multimedia Neurons Neurons Nerve cells in the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord that connect the nervous system and the muscles. Mentioned in: Speech Disorders & More Web Crossing, Inc. today shipped Campus Crossing version 3.0, now with new faculty office, automatic payment capabilities, Neuron neuron, specialized cell in animals that, as a unit of the nervous system, carries information by receiving and transmitting electrical impulses. neuron or nerve cell Any of the cells of the nervous system. interactive multimedia databases, language localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , enhanced live event capabilities, and much more. Built on the new version 5.0 Web Crossing platform, Campus Crossing 3.0 takes advantage of the new easier customization and new plug-in architecture for extensibility without programming. Available immediately as a software license, license upgrade or server hosted solution, Campus Crossing 3.0 is priced on a per-seat or traffic-based sliding scale slid·ing scale n. A scale in which indicated prices, taxes, or wages vary in accordance with another factor, as wages with the cost-of-living index or medical charges with a patient's income. model from http://www.webcrossing.com/academic/. "Campus Crossing 3.0 combines the power of Web Crossing with the power of collaborative learning Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches in education that involve joint intellectual effort by students or students and teachers. Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task in which each to make e-learning easier to manage and more effective," said Peter Moodie, e-learning systems development manager, Waikato Innovation Centre for Electronic Education, University of Waikato In 2002 over 14,000 students were enrolled at the university. More than a quarter of students were aged over 25, and over half were women. It has the highest proportion of Māori students on any campus in New Zealand. . "A powerful platform, Campus Crossing 3.0 makes setting up online corporate training or entire e-learning campuses easier than ever," explained Tim Lundeen, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Web Crossing, Inc. "The new Faculty Office makes managing course work very convenient for teachers. Administrators now have automated payment and record keeping features. Sysops gain new options for easing customization and extensibility without programming. Ultimately, it's the student or corporate trainee who wins the most." New Faculty Office, Automation for Administrators, Events & Neurons The new Faculty Office in version 3.0 provides a private area for each faculty member for preparing course material and storing files, plus convenient access to grade books and attendance rosters. Interactive multimedia course materials are now easily created with new Neurons, a breakthrough paradigm in shared, database-driven, interactive multimedia modules. Whether photo albums, graphics, or presentation slides, Neurons make it easy to develop and add visual material, thus enhancing the learning experience with student interactivity. More information about Neurons is available at http://www.webcrossing.com/neurons. Automating the creation of auditorium events and chats, enhanced live events capabilities make it easy for faculty to set up, open and close events from any course, module or folder. Faculty and Administrators can now conveniently import and export grade book and attendance records in a standard tab delimited A text format that uses tab characters as separators between fields. Unlike comma delimited files, alphanumeric data are not surrounded by quotes. format for working offline. A new fees settlement capability manages "for fee" course payment with automatic settlement via PayPal. Enhanced permissions provide greater flexibility and security to faculty, administrators and sysops. Campus Crossing 3.0 can now be language localized allowing international and multi-language sites to customize their appearance with any language or multiple language options. Campus Crossing 3.0 is now themes compatible for easy customization. First Solution Suite Built on Major Web Crossing Update Using a new underlying plug-in architecture introduced in Web Crossing 5.0, Campus Crossing 3.0 administrators can now easily add and update software modules in just a few clicks. Plug-ins are available for a extensive array of functionality, such as Weblogs, RSS feeds, personal and shared calendars, WebMail, visitor comments, polling, brainstorming, rating auctions, wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. web and more. Campus Crossing 3.0 administrators can customize all or part of a site with new themes and layouts using the "one-click customization" manager, controlling aesthetics across the entire site or within an individual section with a simple point-and-click. Campus Crossing 3.0 also includes the breakthrough, new WebFiles system for managing server files by mirroring into the file system directly from a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Pricing and Availability Campus Crossing 3.0 is available today as a server hosted solution (ASP) for maximum uptime starting at $65/month. For a limited time, licenses of Campus Crossing are also available on an unlimited traffic per-seat basis starting at $295, or on a traffic-based sliding scale software license starting at $295. Campus Crossing license upgrades are available today starting at $119. Professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , community hosting and community management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects are available for all Campus Crossing installations. About Web Crossing, Inc. Privately held, Web Crossing, Inc. is a leader in collaboration tools, committed to providing high-quality software and related services at a fair price. Award-winning Web Crossing is a scalable, tightly integrated collaboration tool serving a broad-spectrum of functionality and serves millions of pages per day at thousands of sites, including well-known, high traffic sites as eBay.com, The NY Times and Autodesk. Team Crossing, Campus Crossing and Support Crossing are turnkey solutions for the group collaboration See collaborative software. , online education and technical support markets respectively. Web Crossing Express is a free package, offering superb server functionality for Web, email, and FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to services. Available licensed or ASP, all Web Crossing software is easily customizable and highly extensible without programming. Further information on can be found at http://www.webcrossing.com/. Web Crossing, Web Crossing Express, Team Crossing, Campus Crossing, Support Crossing, and webcrossing.com are trademarks of Web Crossing, Inc. All other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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