Terminology History

The Microsoft Learning Gateway

Learning Gateway

Microsoft Learning Gateway is a Web-based collaboration, communications, and content delivery framework that serves the education industry...

 (MLG) is a Web-based collaboration, communications, and content delivery framework that serves the education industry. MLG helps to create integrated e-learning solutions for primary and secondary schools and higher education institutions.

Delivering education-specific functionalities, an MLG-based e-learning

E-learning

E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching. The information and communication systems, whether networked learning or not, serve as specific media to implement the learning process...

 solution means that every associated teacher, student, and family can be connected from their home or school to the Internet through a proxy or firewall server, or through a hosted service. With Microsoft Exchange Server, each user can have a secure e-mail address. Using Web-based services, students can participate in lessons and complete assignments online through the portal, both from home and at school.

A Connected Learning Community http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/feb01/02-26clc.mspx is a Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 term that describes a virtually-connected e-learning environment that supports students, teachers, and parents, allowing them to tackle education issues in a more facilitated way that is not dependent on time or place.

It also includes collaboration tools and the sharing of media and information between all education stakeholders. Within such an e-learning community, local education authorities and central administration can track performance, generate reports, and control schools.

Integrating Learning Platforms and Management Information Systems (MIS) into the education environment supports personalised teaching and learning.

Connected Learning Gateway

The ITWorx

ITWorx

ITWorx is an IT professional software services firm in Egypt. Headquartered in Cairo, with development centers in Cairo and Alexandria, ITWorx has other offices in the Gulf region, namely the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, and is represented in Europe. Today, it has around 700 employees operating in...

 Connected Learning Gateway (CLG) is the ITWorx Education portfolio of e-learning solutions designed to automate the building of e-learning environments. It includes interoperable management, teaching, attendance, and integration tools for content management, personalized learning, and user, school, and class administration.

ITWorx CLG is based on the Microsoft Learning Gateway

Learning Gateway

Microsoft Learning Gateway is a Web-based collaboration, communications, and content delivery framework that serves the education industry...

 (MLG) 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK).

ITWorx CLG Features

Collaboration & Interactivity
ITWorx CLG manages cross-device communication between students, teachers, parents, and school management. Teachers can use media content. Parents can collaborate with teachers and fellow parents. Students can interact within the education community via online discussions, forums, blogs, and one-to-one messaging.

Personalized Learning
Students can view due dates of appointments, events, assignments, and exams; manage study time by accessing, downloading, and uploading coursework and education resources; select appropriate time slots to take online exams and quizzes; track academic performance; and monitor attendance frequency.

Teaching and Learning
Teachers can monitor attendance, record absence reasons, and add explanatory comments; create sharable question banks using multiple question types; and manage dynamic content that conforms to SCORM and IMS QTI global standards; as well as author, schedule, deliver, grade, and evaluate online exams. Teachers can also create interactive assignments and grade them through Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) integration.

Adaptive and Multiple User Roles
Users can assume a matrix of roles through a single account across the e-learning platform. This allows tracking of such scenarios as student promotion, teacher mobility, parent with children in more than one school, and parent who is a teacher or administrator.

Parental Involvement
Through a dashboard, parents receive real-time notifications with current classes in their children’s timetables and due dates of assignments and exams. Parents can also track their children’s attendance, grades, and performance.

Integration with MIS
ITWorx CLG can integrate with common school management systems, such as Phoenix Gold, SIMS.Net, Serco, RM

RM

RM may refer to:-People and titles:* Radioman, a former rank of the U.S. Navy* Resident Magistrate* Returned Missionary, a phrase used by Mormons to refer to young men and women who have served as full-time missionaries...

, Integris, and other custom-applications, to streamline data entry and updates. Changes in user and class data are reflected in the e-learning platform according to pre-defined schedules that will not overload or interfere with the school system's capacity.