Course Comparison Chart
| Feature |
Web Page (Contribute) |
Blog |
Wiki |
TWEN |
Lexis Web Courses |
|
| Flexibility of Design |
Very flexible |
Not flexible |
Somewhat Flexible |
a little flexible |
|
|
| Integration of Info Types (1) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Sometimes difficult |
Yes | |
| Ease of Use |
Somewhat Easy |
Somewhat Easy |
Medium |
Medium |
Somewhat Hard |
|
| Organization (2) |
subpages or blocks of information |
categories or tabs (if use Wordpress) |
subpages, blocks of information, tags |
subpages |
subpages |
|
| Privacy (3) |
can limit to College of Law |
Can limit to the class |
Can limit to the class | Can limit to the class | Can limit to the class | |
| Brand Identification (4) |
No |
No |
No | Yes |
Yes |
|
| Bulletin Board-type Discussion | No |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Notification of Activity |
No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Anonymity of Student comments |
not applicable |
Could have anonymous posts if use pseudonyms. But has to be either all anonymous or all with names | Could have anonymous posts if use pseudonyms. But has to be either all anonymous or all with names | Can make some discussion forums anonymous, others not |
Can make some discussion forums anonymous, others not | |
| Collaborative Document Editing | No | No | Yes | Yes - must sign up students as instructors |
Yes - must sign up students as instructors | |
| Sign up Sheet |
No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Calendar |
No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Assignment Drop Box |
No | No |
No - although can attach a document |
Yes | Yes | |
| Tracking Users |
No | No | No | Yes - No. of hits per page, but not per document | Yes- can do for each document |
|
| Live Chat |
No | No | Yes | Yes (transcripts available) |
Yes (transcripts available) | |
| Automatic Legal News |
No | No | Yes -can add an RSS feed | Yes | No | |
| Gradebooks |
No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Quizzes |
No | No | No | Yes |
|
|
| In-Class Polls (like clickers) | No | No | Yes - add a Vizu widget | Yes | Yes- |
|
| Email List |
No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Hide/show items automatically by date/time |
No | For posts, yes, for comments, no (CALI platform) |
No | Yes | Yes | |
| Divide into separate groups |
No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Safe Assign - Plagiarism check |
No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Online Tutorials to Learn the System |
No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Early Warning System (5) |
No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Able to work on from home |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Students learn software they may use after they graduate | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
(1) - Ability to integrate text, images, documents, video, audio
(2) - Can create tabs, subpages, categories, etc to organize information
(3) - Can restrict to just class members
(4) - Associated with Lexis or Westlaw brand
(5) - Automatically determines underperforming students and sends them notices.
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Chart by Sue Altmeyer
links checked 9/09 (aeb)