PG Online Training Solution JUL.2009

Software features catalogues of courses, design tests, award certificates, payment systems, rss news; survey, forum, shopping cart and wish list modules.
It is a good and easy way to optimize your teaching process and get profit with thousands of students online. The script is fully customized, deployed and can be quickly adjusted to any design.
Create your own e-learning training solution for your site quickly and without difficulties.
Free installation, free technical support, custom development and design template integration services are provided.

Major Advantages:

1. Easily customized and easily deployed solution
2. Solution can be quickly adjusted to any design
3. User-friendliness
4. Applicable for any possible courses
5. Additional features and pages are provided at a lower price
6. Saves time, costs and resources

Major Features:

1. Course administration
   
   • Catalogue of courses: Using a standard web-browser, you can build your Catalogue of courses. eTraining includes a flexible Course Editor, so you can add and edit course content at any time without any programming skills or additional program. Courses can include a Library of files which will assist your students to gain success. Lessons content can be supported by images; audio, video, flash files and pdf documents. Courses can be inactivated or copied to Inactive course directory.
   • Free / Partially Free / Paid Courses! Courses can be set Free, Paid or include Free lessons. Free lessons within a paid course will sure attract your e-learning audience: free services always pull us in and seem more magnetic. Free lessons are a good way to promote or drive more attention to this of that material. Intervolve your students into a course by offering free introduction lessons!
   • Top Courses: A set of courses can be added to Top Courses section. Being shown on the front page, Top Courses present your online learning site.
2. Site security
   
   • Manage tests: Tests are designed to evaluate students' knowledge gained while taking the study. A course may or may not include tests. Teacher edits test questions and can modify the number of questions at any time. Sequence of questions can be either seriatim or random. Each question can have one or several answers allowed. Teacher simply sets input type to the radio button or checkbox. Redirect students to previously unanswered questions will let students not answer the unknown question just anyhow. If a student does not know the answer, he can continue to answer other questions and leave unanswered ones for desert. Upon completion of a test, a student and a teacher see the total number of points earned by the student. Maximum number of points available is 100. Points are calculated based on the total number of questions.
   • Import test: Fast, easy to use. Import your tests in a CSV file. You upload a file and get a ready test.
   • • Test administration features are:
     • Import test from CSV file
     • Enable / disable test
     • Editing questions and answers at any time
     • Seriatim / random questions order
     • Vary number of correct answers for each question
     • Redirect students to previously unanswered questions
     • Score calculation
3. Students area
   
   • Personal profiles: Upon registration, each student gets access to their personal profile, which consists of the following:
   • • List of available courses where student can take classes, pass tests, access course library files, receive completion certificates
     • Student Contact information can be edited by a student
     • Courses statistics reflects students activity: completed courses (including basic info: date course passed, total value, required passing score, total score, passing score); latest course (course time & cost, number of lessons, lesson name, time left)
     • List of news where student can read news and teacher announcements
     • View Teacher's contact information with an option to submit Contact form
   • Registration information: Upon registration, student's personal information is sent to the teacher and is recorded in the corresponding section. The student receives a message with the registration information. CAPTCHA added to Registration and Contact Us forms protects site from bots.
   • Courses: In user mode Catalogues of courses have a tree structure, offer more details & quick info: available lessons, tests, final exams, library. Online training courses can be fee-based, paid or partially free. It's necessary to pay for a course to get access to course material. While taking class, student can leave the web site. When coming back, the list of classes for completion is remained. Convenient help will provide details on study rules and help students complete studies.
   • Student area components
   • • Available courses
       
     • Payment options
       
     • Training news
       
     • Contact Us form
       
     • Student's contact info
       
     • Detailed help
       
     • Testimonials
       
4. Site administration
   
   • News publishing: In this section, teacher can post news regarding the web site, classes and education in general. Adding and editing news is very simple. News article consists of a title, message text, thematic image and dates of beginning and ending of news exposure. You can modify priority of news articles to have the most important ones appear at the top of the news page. RSS news can be added through admin panel to automatically update your site news.
   • Sign Up form manager: Custom registration form by adding/deleting new fields to the form. This or that field can be set as required or optional. This will let you collect information necessary for inner researches (who are they by profession, their hobby, who told them about your service, etc.) or other basic stats.
   • Manage Certificate: Site admin / Teacher can upload certificate logotype and signature though admin panel.
   • Payments: The cost of each class can be specified in either US dollars or Euros. Teacher can modify them at any time. Payments Editor section shows a list of all payments, both pending and completed.
   • Payment features
   • • Change course pricing at any time
     • Choose currency - USD or EUR (USD, EUR or GBP for PayPal)
     • Change payment gateway (PayPal, CCBill, ChronoPay)
     • Automatical payment status validation
     • Payment statistics
   • Statistics: Statistics helps teacher obtain detailed information on students and courses being taken by them. The solution software provides two types of statistics: by class and by student. The one by student statistics displays information on each student, including: name, email, registration date, courses list, payment status, test status, and test score. The one by class statistics displays information on each class, including: number of students registered for the class, number of students passed the final, number of students paid for the class. Information can be sorted by any field.
5. Add-ons
   
   • Poll module: Poll module will keep you up to date with your students' opinions and souls; let you know how students evaluate your site courses, lessons, tests you offer. You can improve your services basing on poll results. There's also a good opportunity to entertain your students making interesting surveys and sharing results.
   • Forum module: Forum will create a discussion community around your company, services, courses, new trends in e-learning and e-training, teachers and will certainly sustain a warm learning atmosphere. Place interesting discussion themes, get comments, activate users, make them talk and discuss, express their ideas, lean and share experience with our Forum module.
   • Shopping Cart & Wish List module: Shopping Cart & Wish List are a flexible tool to organize and simplify payments on your site. Your students can browse site courses, add to Shopping Cart, add to Wish List this or that course. There's no need to come back to previous pages or search for a course which appealed from the very first sight. Open an easy way to pay on your site with our Shopping Cart & Wish List module!

Requirements:

• PHP 4.3.0 or greater
• MySQL 3.23.0 or greater
• Zend Optimizer (for Basic Version only)
• GDlib installed (for generating JPG certificate)
• safe_mode off