New tools and scope in CooSpace

Golobics Pál <>
Dexter Informatikai és Tanácsadó Kft.

The ETR (Unified Student Registering System) is providing solutions for the higher educational institutions not only in fields of education management, but in the whole process of educational activities for several years from now. One of our solutions, the CooSpace provides the virtual co-operational space for extending the on-course co-operation. It enables such teacher-student co-operation which can be beneficially used to support the gradual form of education, and can be the key-supporter of the courses in forms of distance learning, and also can be the framework of the pure distance learning education.

In the main aspect of the CooSpace is co-operation. It provides services not along a bound methodology, but offers a flexible variety of tools, which can be chosen by the teachers, education managers and tutors according to peculiarities of the given disciple. Maybe the hardest part in the process of education management is the support communication in a free and at the same time practically organised way. The system helps the users in dissemination, mediation of educational content, in organising and registering meeting sessions, in maintaining communication, in scoring of the tasks and deadlines, and in monitoring of the knowledge.

According to several years of usage and users feedback numerous tools had been modified or improved, to comply with the meanwhile changed or supplemental users? requirements or expectations, as well as numerous new services had been implemented into the system, which helping the co-operation of the users.

In the first part of my presentation I would like to introduce you the CooSpace system, broadly review the services in the fields of educational co-operation, the main components of the systems? operation, and in the second part of the presentation I would like to point out those tools which had been improved according to last years? experiences, and finally I would like to mention some new scopes of operation of CooSpace of which we, the developers didn?t even thought about at the beginning, but the users did.