Overview

Since early 2000, Extentia has developed a number of solutions within the education sector, including:

• Course management and assessment systems
• Student administration, monitoring and reporting systems
• E-learning solutions
• ‘Edutainment’ software
• Mobile solutions

These solutions have been delivered to a range of clients in the education domain, including institutions such as schools, colleges and universities, as well as school boards, corporate businesses and educational consultants.

With this background, Extentia has now developed ELF, a flexible e-learning framework that can be used as the basis for customized e-learning solutions.

ELF not only provides a complete off-the-shelf e-learning solution, but also gives a framework that can be heavily tailored for individual clients.

The look and feel of the ELF user interface is fully customizable, enabling clients to use organization-specific branding or integrate the platform within an existing site.

ELF’s advanced content management system (CMS) enables site administrators to remain in full control of all learning content.

Key Benefits

• ‘Access anywhere’ technology – since ELF is a web-based application, users can access the system from anywhere with an internet connection
• Affordable technology – leading to reduced development costs
• Reduced time to market – since the underlying platform is already developed, it’s quick to integrate and deploy
• Support for varied data formats – ELF supports a wide range of common multimedia audio and video file formats, and can be customized to support specialist filetypes if required
• Easy integration with existing systems – expand an existing website, or build a new site from scratch
• Visual highlights – use banners, videos and animations to promote specific content and features to end-users

Bespoke Application Development

Extentia also provides bespoke application development services for clients in the education sector. A selection of project case studies is listed below – to view, click the document title.

Special Education
A US-based company specializing in Special Education administration software wanted a technology partner to provide application design and implementation services. After an initial pilot project, the company chose to work closely with Extentia as its offshore development partner. Extentia has now successfully delivered many projects for the customer. Technology: .NET, SQL Server

Report Manager
A US-based company providing Special Education administration software required an easy way for their users to create custom reports. Although they had an existing report designer, it was difficult to operate and was unpopular with users. The company chose Extentia to design and prototype a new web-based ‘Report Manager’ module. The final design met all the customer’s requirements, improving usability while adding many powerful new features. Technology: .NET, SQL Server

E-Learning Solution
A US university in that trains and certifies individuals for bilingual medical interpretation wanted to develop an interactive, participative and technologically advanced e-learning environment. Extentia was chosen to design and implement a complete web-based e-learning solution, facilitating improved communication between educators and students. Technology: .NET, SQL Server, Skype integration

E-Learning: Course Management
The client worked with Extentia to develop a technologically advanced interactive e-learning platform for educators and students / trainees. The objective was to have a robust and a scalable solution which can be used by universities, colleges, other educational institutes and corporate organizations to manage their course material and evaluate registered users. Technology: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

Services

Extentia also provides a range of IT services for customers in the education sector:

• Full service hosting – Extentia can provide secure, reliable hosting education websites and portals (built using ELF or otherwise)
• Development and integration – for customers who prefer to manage their own hosting Extentia can concentrate solely on site development, deployment, and maintenance
• Maintenance – Extentia offers comprehensive customer support and service, and can provide dedicated full-time resources and / or an AMC
• Extentia Design Studio – specializing in graphic design and branding, the Extentia Design Studio creates great-looking, bespoke designs. Customers can reuse their existing branding, or go for something entirely new.

To find out more about Extentia can help your organization, please contact us using the enquiry form on this page.