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Features and Benefits of Virtual U Systems
Virtual U owners purchase a bundled software product and hosting service from Virtual U Systems, an internet Application Service Provider. There is nothing to download or install. Our programmers and designers take your existing web site and enable it with Virtual U features. You simply manage your Virtual U through our back-end administration site using any standard web browser. This service enables you to out-source your training support and lower the costs of operating your training organization.
Benefits
Virtual U Systems offers the automation needed to manage students, faculty, and courses without added administrative staffing. With Virtual U Systems, you will:
- Present courses, faculty, and student services in an attractive and descriptive way, consistent with your website design.
- Update your offerings using convenient web-based forms. Editing of your website isn't required.
- Maintain your class rosters and provide easy contact with your students and faculty.
- Enable instructors to develop and place their courses on the website.
The standard Virtual U provides the following features.
Private Administration Area
- Initialize faculty
- Review and update faculty profiles
- Update faculty status
- E-mail faculty members
- E-mail students
- Review, update, and approve courses
- Review and update student records
- Review and update registration records
- Review and update payment status
- Find courses
- Find instructors
- Find students
- Find courses by instructor
- Find students by course
- Find students by instructor
Private Faculty Area
- Develop, review and update personal faculty profile
- Initiate, review and update course description
- Review and update registration records
- Review and update payment status
- Review and update registration records
- Find courses by instructor
- Find registrants by instructor
- Find registrants by course
- E-mail students in a course
- Pass all students in a course
Public Area
The public area is part of your Virtual U website. It will generally contain the following features, with a layout that looks like your existing website's pages.
- Curriculum index page that summarizing each class with link to class description pages.
- Class description page for each class (to present class content, schedule, cost, link to instructor bio).
- Instructor index page listing all the instructors who have presented courses at your school.
- Instructor bio page including a picture and some credibility-building text.
- Student bio page including brief description and contact information.
- Student registration page to be originated and updated by Students.
- Class registration and secure payments pages. (Register for class by class number, receive immediate response).
- E-mail confirmation of registration with class title, schedule, instructor, phone number, student, instructor, and registrar.
With your credit card merchant account, you may run credit card charges at your office. Most of our customers use an online processing service (gateway) to process registrations in real time. We presently support: AuthorizeNet, ECX and Iongate.
Many additional services are optionally available. See our Services and Rates page or contact us for more information.