OVERVIEW OF GEORGIAVIEW
What is GeorgiaView?
GeorgiaView is an environment that provides an online course management system for the development of Web, Web-enhanced, and Web-assisted courses. Atlanta Metropolitan College has a site license to develop and deliver Web-based courses. Faculty are required to use GeorgiaView to develop Web-based courses at Atlanta Metropolitan College.
Web browsers, i.e. Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox, are used as the interface for both the course designers (instructors) and the course participants (students). Because GeorgiaView utilizes browsers and the World Wide Web, it is platform independent and accessible by a variety of hardware and software combinations. This feature allows you to develop and modify your course from any Web-accessible location, making these changes available to your students immediately.
GeorgiaView facilitates the organization of course material on the Web and provides a variety of educational tools and features that can be added to a course. Some of the available tools include: announcements, assessments, assignments, chat, discussion, mail, grade book, learning modules, and student management.
The address for GeorgiaView at Atlanta Metropolitan College is: atlm.view.usg.edu
Why GeorgiaView?
- Secure environment: GeorgiaView is hosted in a password-protected environment that keeps your material and your student information confidential.
- Platform independent: Because GeorgiaView can be viewed via Web browsers, you and your students will not have to purchase proprietary or specialized equipment or software to participate in a course. Courses are accessible anywhere you can access the Web.
- Self-contained communication tools: The Discussion tool allows you and your students to post and reply to messages in forums available to everyone in your course, or selected individuals. The Chat tool allows for real-time discussion without downloading and configuring additional software, and mail accounts are established for all enrolled students (for internal class messages only).
- Number of features and flexibility: Although there are other products and services that are tailored to online and Web-based education, no online learning environment offers the comprehensiveness and features of GeorgiaView.
How Can I Use GeorgiaView in My Courses?
GeorgiaView is a powerful course management system that allows you to:
- Deliver course materials that include text, images and multimedia
- Communicate with students via the course calendar, mail, real-time chat sessions, and discussion topics
- Evaluate students using timed quizzes, activities, and assignments
- Post grades manually or automatically and securely release them to individual students
- Integrate Web resources into your courses
- Create opportunities for students to be knowledge builders and for you to facilitate active learning
- Supply student feedback via self-tests, and progress tracking
- Obtain data to analyze the effectiveness of your course.