Our peers have voted and we’ve made finlist status for the 2017 CODiE Awards in two categories! The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for over 30 years. The awards offer 93 categories that are organized by industry focus of education technology and business technology. Edvance360 was honored as one of 160 finalists across the 34 education technology categories.
For a video on why Edvance360 has been nominated and now a finalist, click here.
Here’s what our peer-judges wrote:
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Performance |
This product creates a LMS that is flexible for creativity by providing widgets in order to generate an effective and efficient layout that is clean and concise that is positive on course development and implementation for student learning process. |
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Strengths |
E-portfolios built in L.O.R built in as well Social Network Aspect Open Badging System (not closed) Ease of Use/ Interface Built to the needs for professors use of widgets Training and support are unlimited Open Community for Social Networking on User End Live Chats for Groups Offline Reports Reports Generated for Admin/ Teachers and Students. |
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Weaknesses |
N/A |
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Performance |
It’s quick and easy access as well as it’s reporting are important to business and education needs. |
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Strengths |
Chat is readable via JAWS. Lot’s of reporting options including offline reporting. 100% mobile ready. Quick and easy access to reporting. Certificate printing and its connection with Credily. Flexible to use on multiple systems. Managing user roles to a very detailed level. Incorporates third party content. |
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Weaknesses |
Didn’t see any. |
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Additional Comments |
The rubrics tool staying with the user is an important to making it easier to build new courses. |
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Performance |
Edvance360 is a comprehensive lms designed for today’s learners and incorporates multiple tools that allows the users to design customized learning content and delivery as well as supplemental collaborative and social sharing functions to provide a complete learning experience. |
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Strengths |
Course wizard easy to use and also helps user with planning of course Granular user access controls allows user to design user roles and permissions with nitty gritty detail. Rating system available in course discussion tool. Divergent paths/adaptive learning available for learners with diverse learning styles. Users can create eportfolios of their work that is shareable anywhere Amazing reports features incorporates business intelligence concepts (reports are updated live versus report issued once or twice a week) as well as multiple filters to refine report data. Lite wizard walks administration easily through course creation including certificates and surveys. Time limit feature available for learners with diverse learning styles. Agents features reminds users about assignment threshold alert – haven’t logged in for a certain amount of days or attendance falling behind. User Can import details about training taken outside platform. |
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Weaknesses |
Uses many academic/educational references that may not be attractive to enterprise clients, but can be easily customized through a Language Pack by the client themselves. |
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Additional Comments |
Offers users a true personalized learning experience |
From Edvance360:
“This award, from our peers, is very important to those of us in the software industry,” said Cathy Garland, Vice-President of Marketing & Sales. “Some awards are given only to paying members, but the CODiE Awards are well-respected because nominations and finalists are chosen by peer judges. We congratulate all our co-finalists and look forward to hearing the winning results. It’s an honor to be a finalist in this category again and also in the Best Post-secondary LMS category for nine years in a row. Nine years as finalists for any category of ‘Best’ simply affirms our commitment to remaining easy to use and yet evolving to meet the needs of learners of every kind.”