About Sclipo & FAQ
Sclipo is a platform of Online Campuses, helping people from over 200 countries to teach, learn and share like never before possible!
- What is Sclipo?
- What is a Sclipo Online Campus?
- Who uses a Sclipo Online Campus?
- Why open a Sclipo Online Campus?
- What is the difference between a Sclipo Online Campus and a traditional Learning Management System (LMS)?
- What e-Learning applications does a Sclipo Online Campus provide?
- What apps does a Sclipo Online Campus provide to collaborate, connect and share?
- How does a Sclipo Online Campus help me get more students and make money?
- Can I teach and learn privately, and in public?
- How much does Sclipo cost and who can use it for free?
- How can I learn to use the Sclipo Online Campus applications?
- Do I need to program, download or install anything to set up my Online Campus?
- What are the technical requirements to use the Online Campus?
- Who owns the rights to the services, courses and content on my Campus?
Looking for demos & tutorials? Visit the Sclipo University!
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What is Sclipo?
Sclipo is a platform of Online Campuses. An Online Campus provides e-Learning, social network and promotional applications to help learn, teach and collaborate as well as to promote educational services and to attract new students. It is very easy to use, and it just takes a minute to set up and requires no hosting or programming.
The Sclipo Online Campus is built for teachers and organizations in continuing education. Online Campuses are used by individual teachers, schools and companies as well as by non-professionals who enjoy helping others to learn. Educational services such as courses or live sessions, as well as content can be private or open, free or paid.
With over nine thousand Online Campuses from over 200 countries, Sclipo is the world's largest campus platform. Being part of our platform allows teachers and students to connect and share like never before possible. -
What is a Sclipo Online Campus?
See this overview of all Campus apps.
The Online Campus is a Learning Management System (LMS), also known as a Virtual Campus or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Course Management System (CMS), providing web applications to teach, collaborate and administer activities, students and teachers, as well as to promote educational services. The Sclipo Online Campus is fully hosted, and requires no hosting, programming or IT knowledge.
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Who uses a Sclipo Online Campus?
Browse Online Campuses
A Sclipo Online Campus is especially well suited for freelance teachers and continuing education organizations. Over nine thousand teachers and organizations from over 200 countries have already a Sclipo Online Campus.
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Why open a Sclipo Online Campus?
Convinced? Open your Online Campus!
A Sclipo Online Campus helps to teach better, collaborate more and to attract new students. It is very affordable and requires no hosting or programming. The Sclipo Online Campus is also very easy to use for both teachers and students.
• Teach better! Online Campuses provide state-of-the-art e-Learning applications such as a Course Manager, a Live Teaching web conferencing system and Library to store and share documents, videos and other content. With these easy-to-use apps, your students will have a better learning experience.
• Collaborate more! Each Sclipo Online Campus has its social network with apps enabling students and teachers to collaborate, connect and share on Campuses, as well as with people on other social networks.
• Attract students! Sclipo helps to attract students and to generate revenues by making the Campuses SEO friendly, and by providing invitation, promotion and payment tools.
• No IT hassle! To open and maintain a Sclipo Online Campus does not require hosting or IT knowledge. Opening an Online Campus is as easy as opening an account on Twitter or Facebook. Teachers can even customize their Campuses without programming knowledge in just a few clicks.
• Affordable! The Sclipo Online Campus is significantly less costly than a traditional LMS (Learning Management System), including open source LMS. The complete Sclipo Online Campus, with all its apps, is less expensive than most stand-alone solutions such as quality hosting or web conferencing. Online Campus plans start at less than one dollar per day. And, you do not have to incur any additional hosting and IT related expenses, such as programmers or IT consultants.
• Easy to use! People who are familiar with web applications such as Facebook, will find Sclipo very easy. Those who are new to the world of web apps will need a little more time to get familiar with our tools. In no event does Sclipo require extensive training. We also offer tutorials, courses, forums and customer support.
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What is the difference between a Sclipo Online Campus and a traditional Learning Management System (LMS)?
See this overview of all Campus apps.
The Sclipo Online Campus is built for teachers and organizations in continuing education. A traditional LMS is built for Universities and other large institutions. The difference between Sclipo and a traditional LMS comes from addressing the different needs of educators and learners in these two education segments.
• Relevant features! A continuing education process is different and less complex than that of a large institution such as a University. It thus requires less and different features. We focus on providing only the features that are relevant for continuing education. This makes a Sclipo Campus not only more useful but also much easier to use for teachers and students.
• IT-free! Teachers and teaching organization in continuing education normally do not have an IT department or expertise required to host, install, configure and maintain a traditional LMS. A Sclipo Campus is IT-free, meaning anybody can open and use an Online Campus without IT and programming skills.
• Less time and money! Being IT-free, a Sclipo Campus requires less time to set up, and no resources for hosting and programmers. One can open an Online Campus in a few minutes for a very competitive fee starting at less than one dollar per day. A traditional LMS in contrast can take months to set up and the total LMS costs (hosting, IT personnel, etc.) can quickly exceed thousands of dollars.
• Promotion! Continuing educators normally do not have large advertising budgets, marketing and sales departments. This is why a Sclipo Campus provides promotion tools by default. In addition, a Sclipo Campus, its courses and content can be explored by not-registered visitors. This helps to attract new students as these can easily preview content and teachers before signing up. A traditional LMS in contrast, can only be accessed by registered users and potential students cannot get passed the login page.
• Social Learning! A Sclipo Campus integrates social network features by default. In addition, Campuses on the platform can also share and connect among each other. For example, courses of a Campus can be published on a central classifieds, teachers of one Campus can teach at other Campuses and content of one Campus can be used in courses by other Campuses. (A Campus can, of course, also choose not to share.) A traditional LMS is a standalone solution. Members of one Campus cannot access members and content of others. This is why we like to call Sclipo a social learning network.
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What e-Learning applications does a Sclipo Online Campus provide?
Visit the Sclipo University for questions and to learn to use the Online Campus apps.
Online Campuses provide a Course Manager, a Live Teaching web conferencing system and Library to store and share documents, videos and other content.
• Course Manager: This application allows you to manage and teach your face-2-face and online courses. It allows you to create a learning path, test students, share content, hold discussions, schedule live sessions and post messages on the course wall. This app has an administration panel to invite, approve and communicate with participants. Courses can be public and private. You can also charge for courses and collect fees. Sclipo takes no commission.
• Live Teaching (Virtual Classroom): This application is a web conferencing system that allows conducting live classes, webinars and meetings with people anywhere. A live session can be stand-alone, or part of a course, event or group. You teach through webcam (video chat), document sharing, text chat and screen sharing. You can schedule public and private sessions. You have an administration panel to invite, approve, administer and communicate with participants. You can also charge and collect payments. Sclipo takes no commission.
• Library: This application allows you to store, share and manage the content (videos, papers, presentations, audio and images) you use for teaching. You can add your own content and use that from thousands of other Campuses on Sclipo as well as from YouTube, Vimeo, Slideshare and Scribd. You can use Library content in courses, and share it in your groups and events. Your content can be private or public.
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What apps does a Sclipo Online Campus provide to collaborate, connect and share?
See this overview of all Campus apps.
Each Sclipo Online Campus has its social network with apps enabling students and teachers to collaborate, connect and share on Campuses, as well as with people on other social networks.
• Private Profile: Each Campus member (students and teachers) has a private Profile to manage her/his network of fellow students and teachers, activities and notifications. The Profile features a wall to post news, discuss and to publish activities. Each member controls who can view her/his profile.
• Online Groups: This application helps you to collaborate online with fellow students and teachers for studying, researching or conducting other collaboration activities. You can discuss on the group wall, hold live online meetings and share content with members.
• Events: This application helps you to organize off-line educational happenings such as conferences, workshops and lectures. You can discuss on the event wall, stream event sessions live and share content with participants.
• Messages: Campus members can send, read and reply to messages from members who form part of their network.
Other social networking apps:
• Build a network: Invite others to become a contact and connect with your Profile
• Share content: Share non-private content from other Campuses in your Campus
• Follow: Follow a Campus, and receive updates on new activities and content
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How does a Sclipo Online Campus help me get more students and make money?
See this overview of all Campus apps.
Sclipo helps to attract students and to generate revenues by making the Campuses SEO friendly, and by providing invitation, promotion and payment tools.
• SEO friendly Online Campus: The Campus is SEO friendly, i.e. it is Search-Engine-Optimized! This means, all teachers and content (courses, documents, videos, etc.) on the Campus have their own unique links (URLs) which are stored and indexed by search engines. So, Google and other engines can store hundreds of links pointing to the Campus. People who find an interesting content, can visit the Campus and explore all its services, courses and teachers. This helps gain new students. In a traditional LMS in contrast, people (and search engines) are stopped at the login page. Links are not indexed making it hard for potential students to find the Campus in the first place and impossible to evaluate in depth. This reduces sign-up rates.
• Invitation tools: Each e-Learning application has tools to invite people. One can invite current Campus students and followers as well as people who are not yet registered on the Campus.
• Promotion tools: Each Campus has its own Classifieds listing for courses, live sessions, content, events and groups. These are also published, on Sclipo's central Classifieds. In addition, Campuses as well as their non-private activities and content can easily be promoted on Twitter, Facebook and other social media.
• Payment tools: The Sclipo Online Campus provides tools to easily collect payments. Teachers can set a price for activities and content, and get paid securely through credit card or other forms. Sclipo does not charge commissions.
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Can I teach and learn privately, and in public?
Yes! Courses, live teaching sessions, events, groups and content on the Campus can be open, restricted and secret.
• Open: Everybody can find, view and participate without approval from the Campus teacher(s).
• Restricted: Everybody can find the activity or content, and view general information about it. To access it, a teacher has to grant admission.
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How much does Sclipo cost and who can use it for free?
See Plans & Pricing
Sclipo charges teachers and educational organizations a fee for their Online Campuses. Prices vary depending on the type of Campus and additional services. Sclipo does not charge students, who pay the prices set by the each Campus. Sclipo may offer free Online Campuses to Academic and K-12 teachers, if they use it solely to teach their K-12 or University students. Sclipo may also provide free Campuses to people who teach for free, and without receiving any payment from anybody and without any commercial benefit.
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How can I learn to use the Sclipo Online Campus applications?
Visit the Sclipo University
You can learn all about the Online Campus at the Sclipo University. There you will find demos, courses and tutorials. We also encourage you to post questions on our wall, to start discussions in our courses and to tell us what you like and miss in our feedback forum.
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Do I need to program, download or install anything to set up my Online Campus?
No! All you need is a browser with an Internet connection. You can open your Online Campus as easily as opening a Facebook account and start teaching in matter of minutes. You do not need IT or programming knowledge, and you do not need hosting. Opening your Online Campus does not require any download or installation either. Not even to teach and learn live over the web conferencing system. -
What are the technical requirements to use the Online Campus?
IMPORTANT:
All you need is an up-to-date web browser with Internet connection. You do not need hosting, and you do not have to download, install or configure anything. Not even to use the web conferencing system.
Teachers and students need for all apps:
• Browser type: newest version of Firefox, Safari or Chrome. You may also use IE, but we recommend not to.
• Browser plugin: newest version of Flash
• Browser settings: Java & JavaScript must be active
• Internet speed: 3 MB download and 0,5 MB upload speed
• Operating System: Windows, Mac OS or Linux
To teach live sessions (classes, webinars, meetings) you need:
• Webcam or a DV camera (recommended)
• Microphone (required)
• Headsets (required)
To learn in live sessions you need:
• Headsets (required)
• Webcam or a DV camera (optional)
• Microphone (optional)
Conduct this automatic system check! If you want to conduct or participate in live sessions, perform this automatic system check to make sure your Internet speed is sufficient, your browser is up-to-date, and that your webcam, headsets and microphone work. It just takes a few seconds!
Get a good webcam & microphone! To obtain a good quality of video and audio, we recommend these webcams, microphones and headsets. -
Who owns the rights to the services, courses and content on my Campus?
The owner of the Online Campus owns all rights over its courses and content.
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