Individual User Features

The Individual User Features allow teachers and students to personalise the interface for themselves. Each user can upload profile information, showcase their work or other documents in the Portfolio areas, and find their peers online by exploring the Student Lists.

Student Lists

This is an area where students can find a list of their peers in the online community.

Profiles

The Profiles area is where students can display both an image and some more information about themselves. It is a simple way for students to get to know each other individually online.

Portfolio

The Portfolio area within each Profile space acts as a personal gallery where students can display and show their personal work to the rest of the online community.

Communal Features

The Omnium Software incorporates many Communal Features where students and teachers can directly interact and engage with each other within the e-learning environment.

Students can view common news and announcements, such as a change in an assignment deadline, or excursion location. Students can contribute to topics or threads in the discussion forums - a great way to facilitate collaboration, continue classroom discussions or to provide support during exam periods. Students can also use the Communal Features to access readings, references, policy documents, photos, timetables, contact lists, or useful links.

Login

The Omnium Software is protected with a secure Login/Logout protocol.

Welcome

The Welcome page provides a brief explanatory statement about the school or education program to any student, lecturer, teacher or visitor.

News & Announcements

This area shows news and announcements posted by the teacher, staff member or administrator that are related with day-to-day classroom activities. These can also be auto-emailed to students or generate an RSS feed.

Discussion Forums

Within Discussion Forums, students can create, comment or contribute to any number of topics of discussion. These can be subscribed to individually by students or generate an RSS feed.

Galleries

Galleries are public viewing spaces where students in the online community can showcase selected photos and other images.

Resources

This is an area where students can find information posted for download in relation to class activities such as project briefs, topic outlines, curriculums and other information.

Assignments

This is where teachers and lecturers can upload current briefs, outcomes and marking criteria in relation to the assessments for a class subject.

Links

In this area, useful and relevant URL's are available for all students. Any member of the community can offer suggested links so long as the teacher, staff member or administrator approves them.

Calendar

Assignment due dates, school carnivals, excursions and social or fundraising events can be added to the interactive calendar. Students and staff can view more details by clicking on the event.

Team Features (Full version)

Most schools have students divided into year groups or small classes. The Team Features enable groups of students to have a space to communicate, collaborate and exchange ideas in a private area. This is ideal in creating separate year groups, individual glasses, teams for group work, or after school activities.

Team Lists

This is a list of all year groups, classes or teams and their members within the online community.

Team Notices

The teacher, staff member or administrator can post regular notices and announcements to all year groups or just their year.

Other Member’s Profiles

In this area, students can get to know each other on a more personal level by viewing each other's individual personal profiles.

Team Pin-Up Walls

This space is used for works in progress and final works produced by a year group, class or team to be displayed and reviewed solely with their team members.

Team File Sharing

The Team file sharing feature allows the storage of large files of works in progress that the entire team, class or year group can access and continue working on.

Team Discussion Forums

This is an area where students can contribute to discussions about specific issues, upcoming events and other topics related to their team.

Live Features ^*

The Live Features enable students and teachers in different locations to chat, exchange ideas or feedback and collaborate in real-time. These live features foster both a unique, personal and interactive online learning environment and cohesive working relationships between teachers and students.

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Time Information

As students and teachers may be located regionally or worldwide, this feature enables users to pinpoint the local time of others in the school community

Users Online

The Users Online tool informs users of who is currently online within the community at a glance.

Chat Information and Invitations ^*

Users can check the chat status of other users or invite students for a live-chat session. Great for team work!

Live Chat Rooms ^*

Using the Chat feature, students and teachers can keep in touch with each other through real-time text-based conversations.

Standard and Custom Interface Colours and Layouts

The Omnium Software enables you to customise your interface by choosing from a variety of classic and modern templates, each available in a new range of colours.

The Omnium design team can also custom build a unique aesthetic to match your visual identity.

CLASSIC

MODERN

CUSTOM

Coalface

Gunship

White Rabbit (Omnium Client)

Atlantis

Lawn

COFA Alumni (Omnium Client)

Daintree

Royal

Low Down (Omnium Client)

Kalahari

Cherry

C • Space (Omnium Client)