Basic eLearning ToolSet (BELTS)

BELTS Overview

Greg Jones

Nicola Pitkanen

Sally Bieleny

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14 April 2005

Version 1.2.0


Table of Contents

I. Introduction to BELTS
1. About BELTS
2. About The Le@rning Federation
II. BELTS Concepts
3. Content Delivery Model
4. Curriculum Organiser
4.1. Overview
4.2. Structure of the curriculum organiser
4.2.1. Neutral vocabulary and outcome descriptions
4.2.2. Describing content
4.2.3. Matching local outcomes
4.3. Using the curriculum organiser without BELTS
III. How To Use BELTS
5. Logging in to BELTS
5.1. User login
5.2. Lesson login
6. Setting up your System to use BELTS
6.1. Single BELTS Server for system
6.2. Individual BELTS Servers at each Location
6.3. Hierarchy of BELTS servers
7. Setting up users
7.1. Central BELTS
7.2. School BELTS
7.3. Types of roles and assigning roles to users
8. Setting up a school
8.1. Setting up schools
8.2. Setting up school users
8.3. Setting up classes
9. Preparing and presenting content to students
9.1. Preparing content for students
9.2. Giving students access to a lesson
10. How to share lessons with other teachers
IV. BELTS Roles
11. BELTS Roles and Privileges
12. System Administrator
12.1. The System Administrator Role
12.1.1. Common Functions
12.1.2. User Management Functions
12.1.3. School Management Functions
12.1.4. Dependent System Management Functions
13. Content Manager
13.1. The Content Manager Role
13.1.1. Common Functions
13.1.2. Repository Management Functions
13.1.3. Content Management Functions
13.1.4. Content Administration Functions
14. School Administrator
14.1. The School Administrator Role
14.1.1. Common Functions
14.1.2. User Management Functions
14.1.3. Class Management Functions
14.1.4. School Management Functions
15. Teacher
15.1. The Teacher Role
15.1.1. Common Functions
15.1.2. User Management Functions
15.1.3. Content Management Functions
15.1.4. Lesson Management Functions
15.1.5. Class Management Functions
16. Student
16.1. The Student Role
16.1.1. Common Functions
16.1.2. Lesson Management Functions
17. Lesson
17.1. The Lesson Role
17.1.1. Common Functions
17.1.2. Lesson Functions
V. BELTS Functions
18. BELTS Function Summary
18.1. Common Functions
18.2. Class Management Functions
18.3. Dependent System Management Functions
18.4. Content Administration Functions
18.5. Lesson Management Functions
18.6. Repository Management Functions
18.7. Content Management Functions
18.8. School Management Functions
18.9. User Management Functions
Glossary
Index

List of Figures

3.1. Content Delivery Model
4.1. Related Outcomes for Content
7.1. User Management Structure
12.1. System Administrator Main Screen
13.1. Content Manager Main Screen
14.1. School Administrator Screen
15.1. Teacher Main Screen
16.1. Student Main Screen
17.1. Lesson Login Main Screen