The student management system houses all the data that allows the school administration to enroll students and follow their progress. It also provides mechanisms whereby the school administration can observe, evaluate, and support the instructional staff and teachers to monitor and track students who are proceeding at different pace through their courses and take appropriate action.

2.The School Instruction Systems

The school strongly believes in encouraging its students to participate in their own learning as it enables knowledge to be more effectively acquired. Students at UIS progress through the learning platforms and the online classroom.

1.The Learning platforms:



This type of learning is flexible as students learn in their own time and at their own pace. This type of learning also offers students the opportunity to think and time to reflect over ideas, check references and take time to prepare a reply, rather than having to react instantly, which results in better and deeper understanding.
The interface is friendly and UIS orientation courses and dedicated support will ensure that students find the various school facilities and learning resources easy to use.
The learning platform exposes the student to the learning material in a clear and effective learning environment. Students can control the pace of the learning, evaluate their understanding by taking quizzes on what they have earned and have access to multi media learning content. Instructors have created for this platform both linear and non-linear learning sequences and organized hierarchically by course, lesson, or topic.
The school also uses an advanced learning platform for the complex and more difficult parts of its online learning teaching. This platform has been developed specifically as an effective and intelligent web-based learning tool as it provides students with a range of options while giving them control over their own learning routes.

2. The Classroom:

The online classroom interface has a complete set of features for highly interactive and effective group learning, bringing together voice, video, data and graphics in a structured online learning environment. It makes it possible for participants to effectively contribute in real-time to a common visual working space. It enables students to draw on the whiteboard, type text or paste images where each participant sees the same end result.
The classroom offers support for rich, Multi-media varied session content and enables access to files and offline learning material.
The students can work together and exchange ideas by having the images they create on their computer displayed for everyone to see and the instructor can use the whiteboard to illustrate a lesson, provide explanations, and have open discussions in a fully interactive and flexible environment.

The classroom offers:

3. The learning management system:

The learning management system LMS enables students to effectively manage their online learning as they can use it to access courses, submit assignments, check schedules, see grades and control the many other features that make learning at Utah International School a rich and enjoyable learning experience




Features of the Learning Management System at Utah International School

1. General Features

Student details
The students may easily update their profile and contact details.

Preference Settings:
Students can customize and choose colors for the Learning Management System according to their tastes and control some of the LMS options.
File Sharing
Students may through "File Sharing" pick up any handout, images or files up-loaded by the instructor. This tool also enables students to send documents and files to the instructor .
File Storage:
All students have their own file storage utility. Version control can be enabled to keep track of drafts or changes to documents.
Polls and Surveys
Students can express their views by joining polls organized by the school or instructors.
Calendar
The Calendar module in the LMS provides a wide range of calendaring functionality. It includes individual, group, course, and system wide calendars, with features such as customizing, multiple entries, notices, reminders, email notifications when new items are posted, course calendars as well as a student's individual calendar with day, week, month, and year views. Events can be posted to the calendar to announce activities, meetings and due dates. Students can post onto their own calendar to remember events and instructors can post on all their students’ calendars. As students check in, they will know at a glance the events of the day. Private, group, and course calendars can be used to keep track of assignments, deadlines, due dates, tests and exams.



Technical Support
Technical Support is also accessed through the LMS to find answers to common questions, Live chat or email Technical Support.
Scheduled parent messages
Parents can access messages about their child’s progress, test results and reports .

Discussion Forums
Students can use discussion Forums to exchange ideas with other students, instructors and administrators and post discussion threads.
File Exchange
Students can use this facility to upload files, submit assignments and share content with the instructors .

Internal Email
Students can use the internal email feature or instant messaging tool to communicate with other enrolled students and with their tutors.


Online Journal/Notes
Students can record notes and write down general their thoughts in a journal and select to make them private or share them with their instructor or with other students. Instructors may leave students notes or questions of their own in the student journal.br>
School bulletin Boards
The school administration and system administrators can post News & Announcements which the students can access after they login.

Grading Book
Students can view their grades and progress reports and feedback from their instructors on essays,exercises, homework and assignments with annotations and links to the relevant course content as appropriate.

Library
The LMS enables access to the library which is available to all Grade 4 to Grade 12 students


Photo Gallery
Students can share photos. Instructors and administrators can contribute and manage course photo galleries.


LMS Feedback:
Success, warning or error messages are given following several LMS operations, such as saving preference settings, or posting a message to keep the student informed on the status of these actions.

Security
High level of security is provided to ensure privacy of all students using the system.


2. Course Management Features

Course information
When students enter the LMS, a list of the courses they are currently enrolled in, is shown, together with their progress in each course.
The student simply enters the course by clicking on it, which reveals a detailed description of the course, its overall difficulty level, goals and objectives, number of units, course contents, course or teacher announcements as well as the lesson goals, grades, progress and any due and completed homework, exercises and assignments while also providing access to the learning platforms.

Curriculum & Syllabus
These are clearly displayed so the students have a clear view of their course programs.
Content Tracker:
Students can keep track of the content pages they have visited.
Classroom Access
The classroom is accessed through the Learning management system.

Searching Within a Course
Students can use keywords to search through their courses.

Testing

Students take tests, do exercises and self-assessments and take automatically scored multiple choice questions via the Learning Management system.

Reading Lists
The student can access the list of resources related to topics of the course as recommended by the instructor .