Remote-Learner is pleased to announce that ELIS for Moodle 2 has been released. ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence System) was orginally released in 2009 for Moodle 1.9. ELIS adds enterprise features to Moodle, like those found in expensive commercial solutions. ELIS supports learners in K-12, Higher Education and Corporate/Government learning environments and includes three major components:
Today we edited this web site to alter the pages relating to Moodle hosting packages. The intention was to rename all of our packages to match the naming conventions used by the rest of Remote-Learner, so you may find tthat the package that you used to have is now called something different.
The specifications of all existing packages have remained the same, as has the pricing, as this is just a renaming exercise.
In addition, we have added the new Level IV hosting package that provides high-end enterprise-class hosting and associated services for the most demanding users.
For the second consecutive year, the eLearning Guild survey, which measures use of over 100 professionally-developed LMS products and excludes in-house created systems, shows that Moodle™ is ranked as the #1 LMS product among eLearning Guild members with over 24% of respondents selecting it as their primary LMS.
Remote-Learner has announced new integration with Adobe® Connect™ to deliver synchronous web conferencing inside of Moodle, an open-source learning management system that helps educators produce Internet-based courses and web sites. This new plug-in provides a single sign-on between the two systems to facilitate eLearning through Moodle. Instructors can now create and manage their meeting rooms inside of Moodle, with students able to click and load them easily within the eLearning environment.
Remote-Learner has selected Red Hat's RHEL Advanced Platform Virtualization technology to deploy in its Overland Park Kansas, and Warwickshire, UK data centres. Rollout is ongoing through January 2011, bringing our customers significant cost savings, security, scalability and uptime guarantees going forward. Remote-Learner has used Linux in all four of its US, Canadian and UK data centers over the past 6 years, and our technicians understand this operating system very well. Rollout in Remote-Learner's other two data centers will be completed by June. 
Remote-Learner and Kaltura recently announced a partnership to bring an open-source video streaming technology to the Moodle LMS platform. Kaltura was selected by Wikipedia (Fall '09), PBS and over 30,000 commercial organizations and schools to bring cost effective video resources online. "We are pleased to announce that the award winning Kaltura platform has now been integrated with Moodle as both a new Resource and Assignment type" states Jason Cole, Ph.D., Remote-Learner's CEO. Kaltura allows teachers and students to add rich media to their online courses and simplifies asset management. Kaltura's Key Features Include:
Remote-Learner has announced support for the open source Mahara e-Portfolio system by joining the worldwide network of authorized Mahara service providers. Mahara is a flexible display framework and means 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori. Mahara is a user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features:-
a weblog (blog feature)
Remote-Learner has announced an integration between the popular Moodle learning management system and the live meeting platform Elluminate. Course developers can now add a live web meeting into their courses entirely from within Moodle, just like any other activity. Meetings can be easily scheduled within a Moodle course with moderators and participants. Course developers can: -
Assigned a grade value for attendance
Remote-Learner is pleased to announce it has joined the Alfresco partner program. Alfresco is an open source content management system with many of the same features as Microsoft SharePoint, including:-
Improve efficiency through centralized management of learning content
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Improve content re-use with site-wide sharing