The discussion of class material is a necessary learning tool that is often overlooked by most online learning management systems. Students frequently are unable to discuss what’s being taught in classes with other students and can’t ask beneficial questions concerning certain classes. Online students have a need to share ideas about specific classes with specific audiences, and they seldom can have these needs met. IQ, however, has a solution.
Groups are a great way to reach a more targeted audience. Create groups that are public or
private and manage the invites and attendees. Group admins can choose who can invite other
members to the group and whether others on the network can join the private group without an
invitation. Students and teachers have the ability to post rich media to the group activity streams.
Members can:
• Create private groups (by invitation only)
• Create public open groups
• Create secret groups (not listed in directory)
• Full post and comment functions within groups
• View recent activity posts
• View recent discussions posts (activity)
• Use optional group directory listing
• Archive or remove groups
• Share group activity within stream (only those in groups see posts)
• Distribute group administration (assign other administrators)
• Share group updates to other popular sites (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Google+)
• View full group reporting (user activity, posts, etc.)
• View notifications on group activity
• Manage group albums
When asking questions, IQ not only allows students to share questions onto group pages for specific courses, but allows students to post questions into the general news feed, so that it may be available for anyone to answer. IQ also allows students to filter questions by topic, already answered, most recent, and by other filtering options.
These are just some of the question features iQ has to offer:
• Post a question to everyone, a group or select category within your network
• Post questions on a specific topic
• Select close dates on questions
• Listing of experts for the topic
• Share questions on Facebook and Twitter
• Attach images to a question
• Embed videos, links, Dropbox documents, etc. to a question
• Filter questions by open, closed, and answered
• Filter questions by topic
• Filter questions by time (day, week, month, year)
• Filter questions by newest, oldest, expiring
• Support for related answers for a specific question
iQ has created solutions to common online learning platform blockades. We believe it’s important to create engaging online platforms and share ideas beyond the classroom.