Denver, Colo. (PRWEB) November 06, 2012
Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software application, lifecycle and content management solutions, today announced that its customer, National Network of Digital Schools (NNDS), is now delivering a dynamic and powerful learning experience for students by converting from a traditional online learning system to Sitefinity CMS. With thousands of pages of content and game instances, and hundreds of hours of video, NNDS needed a flexible, easy-to-use authoring environment that could house a massive amount of content. It also needed it to be flexible enough to handle a uniquely tailored, interactive learning experience.
With Sitefinity, delivering custom functionality did not require a large development resource. Our team of eight-strong in-house developers built and launched the system in less than a year, said Danielle Verba, software design manager, National Network of Digital Schools. This included integration with existing infrastructureActive Directory, a CRM and a grade-book systemas well as deployment to the companys own datacenter. Although we did not know Sitefinity before starting this project, were pleased to have them working with us now.
Through Sitefinity, pages are created, edited, and styled in the WYSIWYG page editor, with no coding skills required. Online courses are composed by simply dragging and dropping one of the 50 custom widgets developed by NNDSs in-house team. “Widgets include Student Explanation, which provides details on what the student is doing and why it is important; Supplies, which details what materials are needed to complete the lesson’s activities; and Vocabulary that displays vocabulary-related information to the students. The course author creates the list of vocabulary words and optionally provides additional information such as the definition and pronunciation of the word. The student can then click on an icon next to each word in the widget to locate and highlight that vocabulary term throughout the lesson text in order to gain context and understanding.
With Sitefinity, NNDS is able to: