Teamie is a start-up Learning Management System based in Singapore that is currently in beta phase. Teamie looks very similar to Canvas by Instructure. The main difference is that Teamie is built on top of Drupal. Teamie allows users to earn Teamie Points from their level of activity. They currently have 2 plans available, a free plan for teachers and instructors and an optional self hosted package for schools and districts.
Teamie
Teamie
Floyd Brooks
Teamie is a start-up Learning Management System based in Singapore that is currently in beta phase. Teamie looks very similar to Canvas by Instructure. The main difference is that Teamie is built on top of Drupal. Teamie allows users to earn Teamie Points from their level of activity. They currently have 2 plans available, a free plan for teachers and instructors and an optional self hosted package for schools and districts.
What are the Main Features of Teamie?
Microblogging: Teamie is designed to be very similar to Facebook with a wall feature making communication via microblogging a breeze. This allows users who are currently using popular social media tools such as Facebook to grasp the ability to use the platform easily.
Online Grading: Teamie allows teachers and instructors to upload their quizzes or create the quizzes online. Quizzes such as multiple choice type questions can be graded automatically while selective response type or essay type questions can be read online or printed by the instructor/ teacher for grading.
School Community Involvement: Teamie allows for the limited integration of parents or guardians into the school's teamie pages. This will allow parents to keep up to date with school announcements.
No special Software: Teamie is totally web based. Therefore, no special hardware or software is needed by the educational institution. Schools or colleges have many more options such as the ability to map their teamie.com account to their own domain or they can self host.
Game Mechanism: Teamie allows users to earn points through their participation on the platform in their various courses. This allows the teacher to easily assign participation points based on a student's activity.
Language Support: Teamie supports many languages making it a very attractive platform for non- native English speakers.
Mobile Apps: Teamie has apps in the Android and Apple IOS marketplace.
Conclusion
I think that competition in the Learning Management System marketplace is a great thing for innovation. Teamie's fun entrance into this industry will definitely make an impact.
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