Course Management
The Course management feature in KNOWS has many sub divisions. The system has very detailed features in each of these functional aspects. The main focus is to facilitate & assess the knowledge transfer process.

The functional elements are:
  Course Creation
Authorized persons can create detailed course and its content. A facility to import and edit the details from another course has been provided. KNOWS, is an efficient self learning system where subsequent roll out requires minimum time and resources.
  Scheduling
The course can be rolled out with more than one schedule. Once this is done it can be rolled out in multiple time frames.
  Course Administrators
A course can be created by a set of people different from the administrators. This feature enables centralized course creation and roll out.
  Allocation
The courses are allocated to targeted participants. A list of participants is selected using the rule engine. The rule selection engine helps to create multiple complex rules of selection of participants, based on participant attributes.
  Monitoring
An extensive monitoring system to understand the learning pattern of students has been built-in. The articles read status, test completion status, student / participant diary etc can be seen by the teachers.
  Evaluation
On completion of an activity the student can be evaluated automatically, if the questions attempted have predefined answers. Other wise, the teacher is notified to carry out the evaluation.
  Consolidation and reporting
KNOWS automatically consolidates the results of an evaluation and creates a report. Multitudes of reports, or custom reports can be created using the report generator provided according to requirement.


Content creation & Management
KNOWS provides many features to create content and manage them. The content can be primarily divided into content for learning & for assessment.
 Content for Learning
The content, that helps a student enhance his knowledge level as per the defined curriculum. It has the following functionalities.
  Online-Content creation in HTML format
  Upload of documents, visual aids etc.
  Multiple attribute assignment
  Multidimensional structured organization
  Boolean search for retrieval
  E-book creation
  Online paper publishing
  Read Statistics
  Reader notes
 Content for Assessment
The content required for testing the level of assimilation of knowledge by the student. Assessment is as critical as content and it has to measure both the effectiveness of learning and teaching. The following features are provided to enhance the process.
  Create multiple types of questions
  Questions can have words, Pictures, Video or audio content
  Questions can have multiple attributes for identification
  Predefined answers for all types except text input type
  Boolean Rule based search engine for questionnaire creation
  Both online as well as printed questionnaire creations
  Multiple rules for question presentation
  Multiple rules for online test termination
  Automatic evaluation for all types except text input types
  Automatic collation of answers & analysis of the answering pattern


Asynchronous Learning
Asynchronous learning is the process wherein the students and the teachers are not present at the same time for the transfer of knowledge. The method helps the student pace the learning process. There are collaboration and learning tools and multiple modes of operation. Some features to facilitate the asynchronous learning process are:
 Content for Learning
The content, that helps a student enhance his knowledge level as per the defined curriculum. It has the following functionalities.
  Group Bulletin boards
  Notice Boards
  Ask- the- Teacher service
  Assignment Creation
  Allocation and Evaluation of Assignment
  Push Documents to Student portal
  Publish papers & invite people to read & rate
  Book Consolidation
  Generation of distributable encrypted document
  Authorization dependent Knowledge base
 
Synchronous Learning
Synchronous learning is the process when the student & the teacher are present at the same time during the learning process. The process needs to simulate the actual classroom condition if need be. KNOWS has the following features to conduct synchronous learning.
Virtual Classroom module with the following functionalities
 Content for Learning
The content, that helps a student enhance his knowledge level as per the defined curriculum. It has the following functionalities.
  Class preparation
  Audio/Video interface
  White board
  Class schedule
  Invitation to classes
A chat facility for the teachers & the students. The teacher can publish the schedule of chat sessions for students to log on.
  Participation in Chat sessions
  Invitation to chat sessions
  Rights to host chat sessions
  Chat session schedules
  Chat groups and memberships


Communication
In any learning system communication plays a vital role. Getting access to the required information at the required time with appropriate authorization is critical. An effective communication system has to take care of the following aspects.
 Content for Learning
  Communication amongst individuals using the system
  Between the individual and the system
  Making the required item from the system available to the individual at the appropriate time.
  Provide only what the user is authorized.
  Communication available within three mouse clicks. A single initial interface for all functionalities.
  Avoid multiple access & minimize learning time.
KNOWS takes care of all the above aspects in the system and provides an effective information access system through respective user portals, which provide a singe point access to all links for all authorized functions of the user.

In addition KNOWS provides the following features.
  Event intimation
  Personal learning activity calendar
  Internal Mailing system
  Instant messenger
  SMS messenger
  System alerts


Individual Knowledge management
KNOWS is a learning management system. It is oriented towards an individual, learning from the net. All systems are oriented towards this specific goal. An individual is given the following facilities to manage their own knowledge base
  Personal Knowledge base
  Search facility personal KB
  Webiliography
  Book Marks & reading logs
  Diary
 Learning Monitoring Facility
All learning activity needs to have an effective measuring capability .KNOWS has multiple means of measuring the learning effectiveness. The learning effectiveness has two aspects. The first is the effectiveness of the curriculum & the learning instruments & methodologies used. The second the quantum of learning the student has achieved. The following systems are provided in the system.
  Measurement of learning activity
  Period, activity correlation
  Student learning activity monitoring
  Consolidation of points based on rules
  Correlation of marks for teacher evaluation
  Feedback surveys and its analysis
  Generic surveys