Here’s a great article by Faculty Focus on the “Seven Tips for Creating a Positive Online Learning Experience“.

Try applying these principles in your own Odijoo classroom :

“Personal introductions…”
Use Odijoo’s internal messaging system to send out introductions and alerts to your students. Try also engaging your students in a few introductory activities to get to know them better and create discussion.

“Constant presence in the classroom…”
Keep your students engaged by constantly creating discussions in your classroom. In Odijoo, anyone can start a discussion within a classroom, so you can encourage your students to do the same.

“Timely response to all student postings and assignments…”
Set criteria for your Odijoo quizzes and Odijoo discussions in the completion reports settings. Include detailed automatic feedback but also provide individual feedback to students for a personal touch and a more effective learning experience.

“Be clear in all “housekeeping” aspects…”
Make your course policies known, by setting specific grading criteria for your classrooms and annoncing it to students in quiz wording, classroom discussions and messages. Odijoo makes it easy to not only set a standard for your classroom, but also to make that standard known to your students.

“Give assignment feedback that is positive and that helps the student improve…”
Be detailed in your Odijoo quiz feedback and completion reports. If a student something right, provide some positive reinforcement. If they get it wrong, let them know how to improve for next time.

“Share tips, ideas, information, and personal perspectives to make the students feel more comfortable…”
Odijoo’s social learning features make it easy for students and teachers to discuss, collaborate, share and learn together – take advantage of this!

Read the full article here

Check out this humorous Online Commercial we’ve recently created, titled Odijoo: eLearning Simplified.

Let us know what you think!

Check out our newly designed Odijoo Quiz Creation Interface. The new interface is sleeker, more functional and more intuitive than the old one and features:

• Easy Drag and Drop Navigation – Create your questions and drag them into your quiz
• Question Bank – Once you create a question, it is saved, giving you the ability to reuse in future quizzes
• Multiple Question Formats – Your question can be true/false, multiple choice or Single Answer format
• Grading and Completion Reports – Set passing and grading criteria and track and monitor student performance in your quiz

Creating a quiz in Odijoo is easy. Simply:

1. Navigate to the Classrooms menu and select your classroom
2. Under the Activities category, select Add quiz
3. Now simply create your questions and drag them into your quiz or use your already created questions from your question bank

Here are some screenshots!

Try it out yourself at www.odijoo.com

Signing up for Odijoo, creating courses in Odijoo, publishing courses in Odijoo and hosting courses in Odijoo are all absolutely free. However, once you’re done all that, you’re going to want to bring your knowledge online and start delivering, sharing or monetizing your courses.

There are three ways to bring your knowledge online with Odijoo:

1. You can share your online courses with the Odijoo community.
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2. You can sell your online courses in Odijoo. Odijoo™ deducts 10% from the purchase price (with a $5 minimum charge) everytime someone purchases your course and you keep the rest! If you don’t make money, we don’t charge!
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3. You can create an Odijoo Campus for free and have your own private online space for training employees. Campus seats are sold in blocks, with each seat representing one user taking one course. You can either purchase a block of 100 seats for $700, a block of 500 seats for $3,000 or a block of 1,000 seats for $5,000.
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It’s that simple to bring your knowledge online wth Odijoo!

Thanks to everyone that dropped by our booth at Devlearn 2009. We connected with a lot of eLearning professionals, trainers, teachers, students and subject matter experts. Our booth at this year’s Devlearn conference featured an interactive demo of Odijoo, as well as an augmented reality presentation.

We also hosted a concurrent speaking session, titled “SaaSy Learning”, in which we covered the problem of eLearning and the solution Odijoo offers.

Odijoo gives users a personalized, cost-effective and all-in-one eLearning solution – an idea which went over very well with a lot of the individuals who came to check out our booth, most notably SMBs.

Here are some photos of our booth from the show:

Odijoo will be exhibiting and speaking at the Devlearn 2009 conference and expo, the eLearning Guild’s annual event for all things eLearning. Come check our booth at the Devlearn Expo, which takes place on November 11-12 and learn about Odijoo or see it in action. Odijoo will be booth #308.

Be sure to also stop by and join us in our free Master Class presentation at Devlearn 2009, titled “Odijoo: SaaSy Learning”. The presentation, which will describe Odijoo’s advantages in more detail, is set to take place on the Master Class Stage on Wednesday November 11, 2009 at 2:15pm-2:55pm.

About Devlearn 2009:
“DevLearn 2009 Conference & Expo is for learning management, design, and development professionals who are leading e-Learning efforts, and who need to stay on top of emerging technologies, proven strategies, and best practices to ensure their organization’s success.”
Devlearn 2009 Website

Devlearn 2009 Location:
170 South Market Street
San Jose, California
United States
95113
Fairmont San Jose Website

Click here to register for Devlearn 2009

We’re excited to see Odijoo listed on the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies‘ directory of the top e-Learning Tools and Learning Management Systems. Odijoo is listed among dozens of other top eLearning applications, but is the only one on the list to combine course authoring, LMS, white label, e-commerce and social networking features in a single application, that is free to use and can be accessed from the web.

Check out Tony Karrer’s blog post about Odijoo and other “Rapid Learning Management Systems”, in a post titled  Rapid Learning Management Systems : eLearning Technology. In his post, Tony discusses the necessary components required in a Rapid LMS in order for it to be an ideal training solution.

Odijoo satisfies the presented model for what constitutes a great “Rapid Learning Management System” by offering its users the following features:

• An Odijoo Campus, which gives trainers and SMB’s a transition from their home page to their own secure, private and personalized online training centre.
• Campuses and Classrooms with Administration and reporting features which match the needs of organizations who need to group learners and manage them from one place.
• A Marketplace where online course content can be shared, sold, syndicated and purchased, within the Odijoo community.
• A Social Learning aspect, as seen in Odijoo’s interactive classroom elements, the ability to add friends as contacts, message users and rate courses.
• Couse Authoring Capabilities via Odijoo’s built-in and web-based course authoring tool.

One aspect not covered inTony’s blog is affordability. Odijoo caters to businesses, schools and trainers who need an affordable and easy way to get their online course content online and from one private place.

We’ve redesigned our front page and added an Odijoo Overview page to show you what Odijoo’s all about! We’re also just a week or so away from releasing Odijoo, which will allow you to create, deliver and monetize online courses from your own personalized online campus. Read more here.