Discovery and Access
Featured Download
EQUELLA: The Digital Repository
What if you could change the way your educators and students interact with digital content? EQUELLA enables users to utilise a single platform that ensures your content is always where you left it, in a central place.
Unlock the Value of Your Learning Content
EQUELLA is a powerful digital repository that can store and manage a range of different content types.
- Simple descriptive text
- Learning objects (IMS, SCORM and METS packages)
- Images
- Videos
- Lecture captures
- Audio clips
- Podcasts
- eBooks
- PDFs
- MS Word™ documents
- ZIP files
- Web links and pages
- Journal articles
- Book chapters
- Animations and simulations
- And much more
By centralising search and access of learning content into a single institutional repository, schools, colleges and universities enjoy a variety of benefits.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Access to internal and external content
EQUELLA is content-centric. Institutions utilise EQUELLA to manage a range of internal, instructor-produced content, as well as external content from sources such as YouTube, Google Books, iTunes U, Flickr, Microsoft Office, Kaltura, and Open Educational Resource (OER) initiatives. EQUELLA also supports a wide variety of standards such as SCORM and METS.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The EQUELLA Content Exchange
The EQUELLA Content Exchange provides users with the ability to purchase subscription, outright or utilise free content and enables EQUELLA clients to on sell their own content through the exchange.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mobile App
Access EQUELLA via mobile devices with the new mobile app for iPad and Android tablets, which enables users to view resources owned by the logged in user as well as notifications and tasks.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Powerful search capabilities
EQUELLA enables tagging of content in any metadata format for easy search and discovery. EQUELLA enables users to define the parameters they wish to use to discover content - whether that's by the simple use of keywords, or based on standards, keywords, learning outcomes, or content format. Dynamic hierarchies allow administrators to create an environment where users can browse through categories to target their searches. Auto completion search functionality allows each user to benefit from additional intelligence built into searches: for example, word stem recognition identifies variants of words and returns additional results for the alternate wording.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anywhere, anytime access
EQUELLA is a web-based solution that enables anywhere, anytime access to learning content either directly through a web interface, or through seamless integrations with existing learning management systems (LMS). This ensures secure, centralised access to content for those that need it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Course authoring and sharing made easy
EQUELLA simplifies the process of collaboration among educators, enabling learning content to be shared and developed in collaboration. EQUELLA's built-in course authoring workflows and extensive functionality enable content to be shared across courses, departments, and institutions. In addition, users can rate content items stored in EQUELLA and add comments to help other educators decide if a particular piece of content is right for them.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enhanced Assessment Support
The ability for EQUELLA to manage assessment objects now supports IMS Question and Test Interoperability specification (QTI) version 1.2. This allows for the contribution of QTI packages to the EQUELLA repository as resources. Users can examine the contents of the QTI IMS compliant packages including questions, answers, format & structure.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Extended Discoverability
The extension of discoverability (Search Engine Optimisation) in EQUELLA strengthens the visibility of webpages within search engines. Via scripting, this feature provides the user with the ability to add meta tags (information) that improve the way Google, and other search engines can index the resources. This optimisation is useful for both research materials and collections used as part of an open access repository.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------