Education is vital to the well-being of our society, and the availability of online education systems has revolutionized access to affordable, quality education. We at Strathdon Manor International are proud to be involved with an ongoing drive to make quality and affordable educational programmes available to all through our Learning Management System initiative.

We make use of two cutting edge Learning Management System Software Packages that offer cutting edge technology, combined with state of the art internet availability, to offer you an unbeatable learning experience opportunity.

Some features of the systems include:

Learners

• Accessibility: A wide range of features ensure assistive technology users can participate fully in learner, instructor, and administrative activities.
• Security: Login passwords are encrypted. Forgotten passwords must be reset, rather than retrieved by email, removing the possibility they might be intercepted when being sent over the Internet.
• My Courses : Instructors and students can manage the ATutor courses they teach and/or are enrolled in. 
• Inbox/Messaging : All users have an Inbox, through which they can send and receive private messages from other users.
• Student Profile : Students can add personal information about themselves for other to see, and include a profile picture, which is also displayed with forum posts.
• Work Groups: Learners can collaborate with others on course projects, communicate as a group through the forums share resources using the File Storage, and work together authoring project documents. Exercises or assignments can submitted to the group leader, or course instructor.
• File Storage: All users have their own file storage utility. File storage areas can also be shared across groups, or an entire course. Version control can be enabled to keep track of drafts or changes to documents.
• Group Blog: Each group has access to their own blog, to which they can post public messages, available to all course members, or private messages, available only to group members and instructors.
• Communication Tools: Learners can communicate with others using private mail, the discussion forums, the chat rooms, or the "User's Online" tool.
• Content Tracker: Learners can keep track of the content pages they have visited.
• Test Manager: Learners can take tests, review test results, and keep track of their scores.
• Glossary: Words and phrases added to the glossary by the instructor, can be accessed from terms embedded within content pages, or viewed alphabetically in their entirety using the Glossary tool.
• Links Database: Each course, and groups within courses, has a tool for collecting links to Web-based information. Both students and instructors can add links. Instructors can manage course links, and students can manage group links.
• Course Search: A search engine allows learners to search course content. Search for courses in the course catalogue.

Instructors

• Guest Access to Courses: Guests can be granted access to private courses through a guest URL, sent to them by a course instructor. Guests can view, but not post content to a course.
• Course Tool Preferences: Instructors can choose from the available course tools and menu modules, selecting only those that are used in a particular course.
• Course Manage Page: All ATutor tools can be accessed quickly from a central course Manage Page.
• Content Usage: Individual usage statistics can be reviewed to identify gaps in content coverage and the learning tendencies of each learner.
• Work Groups Manager: Instructors can manually create, or automatically generate work groups for a variety of purposes. Groups might be used to provide a private area where students can work, to create an assignment submission area, to asign a test to specific students, or for a variety of other possibilities.
• Learning Tools: Instructors have access to all the learning tools that are available to learners.
• Content Editor: Instructors can create content in HTML or plain text. This content can be imported from a local editor, or edited directly online.
• Visual Editor: A JavaScript based WYSIWYG editor is available as an extension of the Content Editor so content creators can format course materials without knowing any HTML.
• IMS/SCORM Content Packaging: Instructors can export content as IMS/SCORM conformant Content Packages that can be viewed offline in the accompanying viewer, or imported another conformant e-learning system. Entire courses, or individual course units can be packaged for viewing or redistribution.
• Reading List: Instructors can gather a list of resources (books, papers, urls etc.) related to topics in a course, and create a Reading List based on those resources.
• Backup Manager: The entire content and structure of a course can be backed up and stored on the server, or downloaded and saved to your local computer. Create a copy of a course as a master for future sessions, or move a course to a new location.
• News & Announcements: Instructors can post messages to the course Home Page to guide learners through the course. News can be used for weekly introductions, announcing important dates, or posting critical information. The announcements Demopage is always the first page a learner visits when they log into a course. An RSS feed can be turned on to display course announcements on other Web sites.
• File Manager: Instructors can upload and manage course related files. Directories can be created to sort files, zip archives can be uploaded and unpacked. A popup file manager can be opened alongside the Content Editor or test question editor. Course files can be easily linked into content pages or test items as they are being created. Text or HTML files can be created or edited online. Rename files, or batch move or delete files.
• Test Manager: Instructors can create tests with multiple choice, true/false, Likert, ordering, matching, drag and drop, and a number of open ended question types. M/C, multi-select M/C, ordering, matching, and T/F questions are marked automatically. A test release window can be created to make a test available for a certain period, feedback can be customized, and test results can be archived. Self-marking tests can be created to provide students with instant feedback. Create surveys and link them to the course home page. Select from a pool of questions to generate random question quizzes. Assign tests to groups of students. Add questions to a Question Database, then select questions from the database to assemble a test or quiz. Create image based test items, and arrange items horizontally or vertically. Questions can be arranged in any order.
• Polls: Instructors can create one question polls to quickly gather student opinions.
• Forums: Instructors can create and manage multiple forums for each of their courses. Messages can be edited, deleted, locked from reading and/or replying, and "stuck" to the top of a thread list if a message is important. Administrators can create forums shared across multiple courses.
• Course Email: Instructors can send bulk email to course members, assistants, or both.
• Course Properties: Instructors can view course login statistics, edit course properties, and send course-wide email messages. A default display language can be set for each course. Assign a course as public, protected, or private, or hide a course while it is being developed. Control student access to content packaging. Turn on an RSS feed for course announcements, and display them on other Web sites. Set the release date for a course, after which it becomes available to students.
• Enrollment Manager: Instructors may import a comma separated list of students to enroll in their courses, or export an enrollment list for staff keeping. Create an enrollment list online to add new students to a course. Automatically generate login names and passwords for students and send them by email when a student is enrolled in a course. Assign students as Alumni so they can participate in discussions for future course sessions. Filter by login, first or last name, or email address.
• Privileges: Through the Enrollment Manager, instructors can assign students access to various instructor tools, creating teaching assistants or co-instructors.
• Addon Modules: FAQ, Google Search, RSS Feeds, EWiki, ACollab, ATalker Text-to-Speech, and SCORM Packages modules are each available with a quick installer.

Administrators

• Module Manager: Administrators can install modules, enable and disable them, define a default module and menu configuration for new courses.
• Administrator's Home Page: All administrator tools can be accessed quickly from a central Administrator Home Page.
• Multiple Administrators: Create multiple administrator accounts assigning specific privilages to each.
• Master Student List: Require newly created student accounts to be authenticated against a custom imported student ID/PIN paired list.
• General Statistics: View system usage statistics.
• Secure Course Content: Secure course content directory to prevent unauthorized access to course files.
• Instructor Request: Review requesting instructors' personal information, and assign instructor status so they may create courses. Administrators are informed by email when new requests are made.
• User Manager: Users on a system can be sorted, personal information can be viewed, and access privileges can be modified. Send announcements to all users on an ATutor system, or to students, or to instructors. Search through the users database using a variety of search strategies to find individual students, or a group of students. Users accounts can be batch managed to rapidly add, modify, or delete accounts. View courses in which individual students are enrolled.
• Enrollment Manager: Administrators have all the same tools for managing course enrolments as instructors do, with the ability to manage students in any course. Create an enrollment list online to add new students to a course. Automatically generate login names and passwords for students and send them by email when a student is enrolled in a course. Assign students as Alumni so they can participate in discussions for future course sessions. Filter by login, first or last name, or email address.
• Course Manager: Much like the User Manager, courses on a system can be sorted, their properties modified, and their instructors managed. Create new courses and assign an instructor. Use course backups to generate initial content for a new course. Create shared forums for select courses, or create a community forum for all courses. Easily jump between the administration section and courses without having to re-login each time.
• Backup Manager: Generate backups of courses to create master copies. Download backups for safe keeping or to move courses to another ATutor server. Use backups to generate new courses.
• Cron Utility: Optionally schedule scripts to run at specific times. Use the Cron Uitlity to run the Mail Queue every few minutes. Write custom scripts to generate statistics, create a system backup, or to send system reminders, etc. using the cron utility to schedule when they run..