King Saud University

Developing different courses and educational packages

Saudi Electronic University

Teaching Chinese to non-native speakers

The Islamic University in Madinah

Here we developed 33 e-Courses along with the implementation of Moodle LMS and an online web portal.

Saudi Electronic University

We have a deep, strong relationship and a big history of corporation With the Saudi Electronic University in Riyadh, as we successfully launched lots of E-learning projects together as the list below shows:

• 3 Courses of Islamic Culture, including authoring and development.
• 2 Courses of Law including authoring and development.
• The course of Communication skills.
• The Academic Skills course( Winning The award of the first E-course in KSA 2013).
• The development of 15 E-courses for Baha University In Riyadh (Phase one) 2014-2015.
• The development of 15 E-courses for Baha University In Riyadh (Phase two) 2014-2015.
• Building and supplying of an E-learning high qualified studio including staff training for best utilizing it in producing professional e-learning Audio/Video content.

Finally we recently won the tender of development of 33 courses for the law department of the Saudi Electronic University.

Ministry Of Education

Web Applications-University Portal (CMS)

Our application development and custom software development services include everything from a simple static website to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic business applications, and social network services. We develop applications on both Windows and Linux platforms and our programmers are experts with a variety of programing languages, development frameworks, and database systems, including MS .NET framework, MS SQL, SharePoint, PHP, MySQL, Java, Python, Joomla, Drupal, and much more.

Features

• Easy to manage the site and content as people with average knowledge of word processing can create the content directly without HTML knowledge.
• Multi user with roles and permissions for site access, content viewing, and content editing.
• Consistency of design and navigation is automatically generated and adjusted.
• Menus are generated automatically and links will not point to non-existing pages.
• Ability to supply the same content to many different channels such as web browser, mobile phone/WAP, PDA, print.
• The availability of many ready extensions and add-ons like forums, polls, shopping applications, searching, news management and much more.
• Ability to schedule content publishing.

Available modules and add-ons

• Users Registration and Login
• User Access Control
• Multi Language (Arabic and English)
• Social Media
• Content Search
• Announcements
• News and Events
• Comments System
• Voting and Rating System
• Events Calendar
• E-Commerce System
• Survey System
• FAQ's System
• Newsletter System
• Document Management System
• Files uploads / downloads
• Blogs
• RSS

Areas of Specializations

• Microsoft SharePoint (Windows - Commercially & Proprietary) SharePoint's multi-purpose platform allows for managing and provisioning of intranet portals, extranets and websites, document management and file management, collaboration spaces, social networking tools, enterprise search, business intelligence tooling, process/information integration, and third-party developed solutions. SharePoint can also be used as a web application development platform.
• Alfersco (Windows/Linux - Java – Open Source - Commercially & Proprietary) Document Management, Web Content Management, version control, Records Management, Image Management, Activity workflow Advanced search and indexing, Desktop integration with Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org and, Pluggable authentication: NTLM, LDAP, Kerberos, CAS, Multiple Database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server (Enterprise Edition).
• Liferay (Windows/Linux - Java – Open Source) Enterprise web content management system and portal used to power corporate intranets and extranets. Document and Image management, Document Library Manager, Recent Documents Alfresco, Documentum, and other document library integration Image Gallery, WebDAV Integration, Website Tools, Web Form Builder.
• Drupal (Windows/Linux - PHP – Open Source) Enterprise web content management system and portal used to power corporate intranets and extranets.
• Joomla (Windows/Linux - PHP – Open Source) Enterprise web content management system and portal used to power corporate intranets and extranets.

Student Information System (SIS)

Commercial grade, secure, scalable and intuitive Student Information System from OS4ED that operates with the help of School Management Software.

Features

• Student Demographic openSIS enables the tracking of numerous student demographic attributes in a permanent record and across enrollments. You can use custom categories and fields that allow you to easily create any number of custom fields to capture your specific data needs.
• Contact Information Easily add contact information for parents, relatives and authorized individuals. Designate legal guardian, bus stops and associate parents with students enabling automatic access to the openSIS parent portal.
• Scheduling openSIS includes a scheduler that allows you to easily input student requests and mass schedule students.
• Gradebook The built in grade book allows teachers to enter homework assignments, class tests and any other activity using weighted scales if desired. Entering final grades is as easy as a mouse click.
• Reports/Report Designer openSIS includes numerous standard reports and the ability to design custom reports using simple check boxes. Reports are output to PDF format for easy printing and viewing.
• Report Cards Easily input final grades, create student report cards and calculate GPA’s and class rankings. Print one report card, all report cards or anywhere in between with the flexibility of openSIS
• Transcripts openSIS includes the ability to print student transcripts. Create groups of students across numerous attributes and click a button. It doesn’t get any easier and openSIS is all about ease of use.
• Health Records Nurses visits, immunizations, physician contact information, allergies and more are all a part of our health records.
• Attendance By period, by day, with comments and all accomplished with a only a few clicks. Customize attendance codes to meet your specific needs and Easily check attendance by using our built-in reports.

Campus Management System (ERP-CMS)

Achieve Operational Control, Management Control and Strategic Planning Enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, CRM, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application.

Areas of Specializations

• System based on OpenERP system

Features

• Over 1000 business modules that provides complete coverage of business processes (HR/Finance and Accounting/CRM/Sales/Manufacturing/Etc.)
• Flexible and integrated features
• Work flow and work process management system
• Business intelligence and reporting engine
• Projects management
• E-Commerce and point of sale
• High level of security with completed access rules and audit trail
• Ability to develop any business module or business work flow or process
• Complete coverage of business processes
• Automation of business processes
• Integration with other applications in an open architecture
• Easily organize and track activity

Campus management system basic modules are:

• Financial Management System
• Student Information Management System
• Human Capital and Talent Management System
• Library Management System
• Project Management System
• Asset Management System
• Inventory Management System
• Grants Management
• Taxation Management
• Administration, Testing, quality assured, training
• Help Desk

Content and Document Management Systems (ECMS)

Enterprise Content and Document Management System (ECM) is The strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM covers the management of information within the entire scope of an enterprise whether that information is in the form of a paper document, an electronic file, a database print stream, or an email.

Areas of Specializations

• Microsoft SharePoint (Windows - Commercially & Proprietary) SharePoint's multi-purpose platform allows for managing and provisioning of intranet portals, extranets and websites, document management and file management, collaboration spaces, social networking tools, enterprise search, business intelligence tooling, process/information integration, and third-party developed solutions. SharePoint can also be used as a web application development platform.
• Docuware (Windows - Commercially & Proprietary) Document management software allows users to electronically manage, store and share documents, regardless of format. Industries using this technology include health care, education, financial services, local government, transportation and manufacturing.
• Alfersco (Windows/Linux - Java – Open Source - Commercially & Proprietary) Document Management, Web Content Management, version control, Records Management, Image Management, Activity workflow Advanced search and indexing, Desktop integration with Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org and, Pluggable authentication: NTLM, LDAP, Kerberos, CAS, Multiple Database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server (Enterprise Edition).

Features

• Controlled and improved content distribution
  • Enabling content and documents sharing electronically with colleagues and clients over a network, by email or via the Web in a controlled manner
  • Preserve the intellectual capital and organizational knowledge by having content and documents centralized in a system
• Retrieval: Less time is spent locating and retrieving content and documents as they can be retrieved electronically using search functions by any word or phrase in the document - known as full text search.
• Security: Control over sensitive documents by controlling content and documents access for different groups and individuals Audit trail of who viewed or modified content and documents and when
• Recovery: Easy back-up of content and documents for offsite storage and disaster recovery Electronic versions of document greatly reduce the amount of storage space required by paper.
• Archiving: Keeping archival versions of documents helps protect paper documents, which still have to be retained, from over-handling and keeps electronic documents in a non-proprietary and native format
• Improved Regulatory Compliance: A combination of security control, audit trails, archiving and disaster recover ensure that an organization is able to authenticate the validity of information stored and demonstrate compliance with regulations and requirements
• Improved Internal Operations
  • The reduced time to complete processes improves the day to day operations of all functions within an organization, leading to an improved flow of information, an increased perception of staff in their ability to solve questions and tasks
  • Improved operations ultimately result in reduced cost and higher ROI

Learning Management Systems(LMS)

A learning management system (commonly abbreviated as LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and training content.

• centralize and automate administration
• use self-service and self-guided services
• assemble and deliver learning content rapidly
• consolidate training initiatives on a scalable web-based platform
• support portability and standards
• personalize content and enable knowledge reuse.

Learning content management system (LCMS)

• Technology focused on the development, management and publishing of the content that will typically be delivered via an LMS.
• LCMS is a multi-user environment where developers may create, store, reuse, manage, and deliver digital learning content from a central object repository.

Areas of Specializations

• Moodle (Windows/Linux – PHP)
• Sakai (Windows/Linux – Java)

Features

• Students, teachers and staff management
• Assignment submission and files uploads and download
• Online quiz, testing, grading
• Communication management: instant messages, discussion forum, chat
• Full Arabic and Hijiri Calendar Support
• Online news and announcement (College and course level)
• WiZiQ online virtual classroom learning environment.
• BigBlueButton web conferencing system for distance education.

Complete Features List

• Ability to setup, manage, and deliver students virtual courses in virtual class room and plan the delivery in in semesters
• Registration module: is a Moodle activity add-on for registration of students for examination at institutions that have not central registration system
• Students Profiles: Students are usually asked to edit their profile in Moodle. It is also possible for the site administrator to edit users' profiles.
• Enrolments: course enrolment to assigning users the role of student in a course. Internal enrolment or External database enrolment to use an external database to control your enrolments. It is assumed your external database contains a field containing a course ID, a field containing a user ID, and optionally a field containing a role
• SCORM support module: SCORM/AICC module is a course activity which allows the teacher to upload any SCORM or AICC learning package to be included in the course. Certified SCORM 1.2 compliant
• Quizzes and Exams: The module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, including multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be re-used in multiple quizzes. Quizzes can be configured to allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers.
• Survey Module: Survey activity module provides standard, verified survey instruments that have proven useful in evaluating what students are doing and thinking in your classes.
• Files management support: Files is a place to upload and download files and find created files which can contain PDFs, HTML, Multimedia, word processing, presentations or any digital content that can be linked from an activity, resource, course section, or for a direct download by the student
• My Notes: Personal note manager block
• Certificates management: ability to generate certificates for students with the ability to include student's name, date, course name, activity or course grade, other text, a code number, the teacher(s) names. Also can choose to add images such as seals, logos and watermarks. It can be delivered in the browser, PDF, via email, or downloaded.
• Communications modules including the following:
  • Quickmail module: The quickmail block adds a link to a tool that has a checkbox list of all students in the course, and a mail composition text area
  • Forum module: The forum module is an activity where students and teachers can exchange ideas by posting comments
  • Chat module: The Chat activity module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web
  • Blogs: blogs can be created and are user based - each user has their own Blog.
  • Custom blocks where Advertisements can be displayed using standard HTML and images or flash content.
  • SMS Module: to integrate with a gateway provider (conditional to have the client supply a local provider)
• Statistics: Moodle will gather statistics about each course and for the whole site, and produce graphs displaying them.
• Grades: Many activities in Moodle, such as assignments, forums and quizzes may be given grades. Grades may have numerical values, or words/phrases from a scale or rating system
• Scales are a way of evaluating or rating a students' performance. Moodle offers a standard set of numeric scales. It is also possible to create custom scales which can be available on the site. Scales may be used in Forums, Glossaries and Assignments for rating and/or grading a student's activity
• Activity report: An activity report will show all activity in the course, sorted by topic. Each item will be shown with its type and name. In order of appearance, the fields are: resource/activity name, # of times viewed, date last viewed, and elapsed time since last view
• Course logs: Course logs show activity within the course. It allows tutors to see what resources are being used and when. They can check to see if an individual student has viewed a specific resource or participated on a specific activity on a specific day
• Additional core modules, blocks, and plugins that will be installed:
  • Feedback
  • Questionnaire
  • Book
  • Wikipedia block
  • Birthday block
  • Theme switcher

Virtual Class Room

WiZiQ is an online learning platform. The site is designed to help students and teachers find each other, and to provide an online virtual classroom learning environment.
The WiZiQ virtual classroom runs using a Web browser and Adobe Flash. On the site one can find online tests, tutorials, and recorded classes [12]. WiZiQ also serves as a social networking site to bring together educators and students from around the world. There is no vetting of the teachers on the site, as anybody can become a teacher and anybody can be a student. Teachers upload their profiles advertising what they can teach, tutorials, their experience and their credentials and students can run searches, find recorded classes to watch, tutorials to take, or teachers to work with.

Features

• Audio/video
• Whiteboard
• Support for PowerPoint
• Screensharing
• Support for other file types including sound, video, Microsoft Word documents, Flash, PDF, etc.

Live Recording, Video Conferencing, and Broadcasting

Education Video Streaming platform supports a variety of E-Learning applications, including broadcasting and recording lectures, Internet distribution, and streaming.

E-learning Course Development

Expert systems are using powerful types of authoring tools that offers programming free environment for creating high quality interactive e-learning content which can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROMS and other devices.

Features

• Layout and usability
  • Familiar PowerPoint-like authoring environment;
  • Course Structure Pane displays tree-like course structure
  • Module Structure Pane contains thumbnails of all slides in the module and slides hierarchy
  • WYSIWYG environment - no HTML or other programming skills required
• Rich-media support
  • Pictures in various formats
  • Simple inserting and synchronization of audio files in various formats
  • Adobe® Flash® movies
  • Adobe® Shockwave® applications
  • Java® applets
  • Video clips in various formats
• Testing and Assessment
  • Built-in test creation capability
  • Supported types of questions: single choice, multiple select, ordered items, numerical fill-in-blank, text fill-in-blank and matching pairs
  • Tools for creating custom questions and interactive exercises of virtually any type
• Interactivity
  • Any object can be active click (or mouseOver/mouseOut) area
  • Any part of text can be active click (or mouseOver/mouseOut) area
  • Launching applications and documents in new window (Power Point®, Excel®, Word® & PDFs)
• Publication options and eLearning standards
  • Simple wizard-based publishing
  • Publish to HTML package
  • Publish to CD-ROM
  • Publish to AICC SCORM package for import to any LMS supporting this standard

Curriculum and Instructional Design

We offer professional services for every stage of course development including instructional design, writing & editing, scripting, photography, videography, motion graphic design, 3D animation and much more.

SCORM Course Development and Consulting

• Content and LMS Standardization: Standardizing existing courseware and Learning Management Systems.
• Content and LMS Integration: Getting your SCORM-compliant content to function as you expect within your chosen
• Training: We believe in empowering our clients. That is why we offer the industry's leading SCORM training and consulting. Whatever your skill level, we can provide the training you need to meet your SCORM training objectives.
• Instructional Design, technical writing, storyboarding, script writing, in-studio voice production.
• Conversion of existing PowerPoint, Word, Excel, PDF, and other files into SCORM compliant eLearning.
• Creation of high-end custom Animtated-based eLearning games, quizzes, lectures, and more.
• Wrapping of existing audio, video, and other training you have already created into standards-based eLearning packages that can be deployed through any conformant Learning Management System.

• Adobe Captivate, Flash, Breeze
• Courselab
• Camtasia

• Initial consultation and strategy
• Prototyping and Proof-of-Concepts using various tools
• Full Project Management
• SCORM consulting and training