List your requirements towards a national ELP service:

• Simplicity of use
• Big user community
• Little support necessary
• Mathematical formulas
• Multilingual (E,D,F,I)
• Modular software
• Technical assistance
• Variable layout (skins)
• Communication (synchronous, asynchronous)
• Group support (multiple group adherence, roles, management)
• Community support (awareness, polls, profiles, etc.)
• Printing facility (printer friendly)
• Data repository
• Easy course enrolment
• Varied and efficient tools (chat, scorm, lessons, web page editor, ...)
• Evolutive tool and dynamic community around

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Roles and processes:

role and requirements:

• anonymous (students, participants anonymous)
• guest(participants with identification)
• student (participant with registration)
• tutor (lecturers, assistants for coaching)
• teacher (lecturers, assistants for teaching)
• course administrator (assign rights to roles, enrole students)
• system administrator (archive courses, delete, backup, coursemanagement)

process:

• designer (didactical concepts)
• author (production of content, edit contents)
• tutor(teacher)

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Requirements related to roles

Anonymous

• can quickly get an overview of faculties and courses
• can quickly gain insight into objectives and contents of selected courses
• can gain insight into collaboration and cooperation activities of selected courses

Guest

• same requirements as anonymous
• can enrol for selected courses

Student

• same requirements as anonymous
• can enrol for all courses of her/his faculty
• has access to the documents of the courses she/he is enroled for
• has access to a calender where all appointments of the courses she/he is enroled for are updated automatically
• gets alerts (by mail, by sms) whenever documents or postings have been changed in a course
• ...

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