OCTAL stands for Online
Collaborative Teaching and Learning. OCTAL is a Learning Management System that
combines the best parts of a Computer-based Training (CBT) and Web-based
Education System. OCTAL intends to provide students and teachers with the best
standards in online and virtual study environments in the form of holistic
content administration tools, guided tutorials, multimedia-enabled lectures,
automated reporting, and personalized teacher-pupil interaction facilities.
OCTAL enables an institution to effectively and uniquely deliver educational
content by creating a virtual classroom. It offers the opportunity to maximize
the potential of the Internet/Intranet in running Academic and Professional
Training, be it Corporate, School-Centric or Private.
The OCTAL engine consists of many smaller sub-systems intricately woven
together. We are able to deliver specific, customized solutions to customers by
adding, modifying or re-arranging particular sub-systems in the engine as the
customer deems fit. A customer may choose to tear down the complete interface
of the LMS, and develop his own proprietary look-and-feel. He may have a
legacy-authoring tool that he wants to use along with OCTAL. He may choose to
have it communicate with his existing third-party financial system. The OCTAL
engine allows for all such scenarios while seamlessly integrating the rest of
the sub-systems to the new components. OCTAL, therefore, is probably one of the
only completely scalable and customizable Learning Management Systems available
in the market.
Another important feature that sets OCTAL apart is that it provides for
rule-based course scheduling. The inbuilt Intelligent Course Scheduler monitors
the student performance and times the balance of his course accordingly. The
Scheduler can also be programmed to organize the course in various different
fashions as the customer may want. It also allows for Teacher-based Scheduling
and Personal-Student Scheduling. OCTAL, thereby, provides for a Asynchronous
Learning Environment. The OCTAL engine, being completely internet-enabled,
supports multiple browsers. It also contains support for delivery of content on
Tablets, PDA’s and e-Books. The OCTAL engine contains tools for personalized
Teacher-Student interaction and Student-Student interaction in order to enhance
the learning experience.
December 2009: AISoft Chennai seminar draws a thousand students!
AISoft conducted a half-day Java technologies seminar in Chennai primarily geared towards college students.
AISoft’s eCOLE, OCTAL and YAK listed on the Intel Business Exchange
.
The partnership with Intel further strengthens AISoft’s delivery capability and boosts its technology competence.