1. Courseware at a glance
Platform for creating and hosting courses
Build at Stanford on Elgg
Available within U.S. university system
Experiment for providing a more collaborative and
interactive teaching and learning experience
Independent of content
Free to use

2. Collaborative and Interactive Features
Assignments and quizzes
Teaming
Peer grading
Videos and lectures
In-video quizzes
In-video annotations
Link point in video to forum questions
ClassX interactive video streaming (classx.stanford.edu)

3. Collaborative and Interactive Features
Forum
Custom plugin: forum/subforums/posts/replies
Tag posts for later review
Instructors can share content across courses and
institutions
Students can view other student's submissions
Students provide [anonymous] course feedback

4. Going Forward
Analytics
Instructor: What % of students have completed the
assignment
Student: Visibility of student progress in relation to the
whole class for a competitive sense
Student: Performance of questions or assignment in
relation to the whole class
Student Interventions
Use analytics to drive proactive help
Casual conversation style rather than formal, rigid