How We Do It

BrainHoney is the perfect way to quickly and easily leverage online learning to personalize and optimize any learning environment.

Confidence In Your Curriculum
BrainHoney drag-and-drop curriculum mapping and reporting allows you to quickly and easily assure your courses will support your teaching objectives.

Knowledge Of Each Student
The BrainHoney GradeBook provides an unequalled real-time view of student and class progress allowing you to focus on the students who need your help the most.

Preparation For The Future
BrainHoney allows any educator or institution to leverage online learning to improve the efficiency and efficacy of their program.

Course Development

State Standards Library
State learning standards and objectives can be imported and assigned to course content to assure instruction, assignments and assessments are aligned with institutional goals.

WYSIWYG Course Authoring
Wizards provide step by step instructions for creating new courses, sections, and assessments; drag and drop and menu selection interfaces–now anyone can create learning activities and integrate third-party web applications like wikis and social networking sites.

Custom Course Templates
Design a basic course and then use it as a template for other courses that may be customized.

Stock Template Library
Templates allow non-technical course developers or faculty to easily create learning activities that engage and excite learners with the integration of rich graphic and multimedia content (.flv, .mp3, and other multimedia file types)

Custom Interface
Make BrainHoney your own–by adding your own branding, logos, color schemes, content templates, and a customized login process.

Personalized Lesson Plans
Formative and remediative assessments allow instructors to create completely individualized courses to cover the objectives not yet mastered by the student

Objective-Based Courses
Assure even instruction and assessment by assigning objectives to course units as well as learning activities and individual assessment questions.

Dynamic Importing
Existing content such as quizzes, assessments, Microsoft PowerPoint or Word files and Adobe Acrobat files can be easily imported; instructors may import multiple files at once and drag and drop them onto the course map.

Gradebook

Custom VIews
Provide data on student progress and performance, including grades for automatically graded exams, time spent on activities, and links to submitted assignments pending grading.

One-Click Assignment View
Access student assignments and grade and provide feedback with text comments, as well as attach a marked up version of the student’s document, all from within the Gradebook.

Student Discussions
Teachers may directly view student’s discussion posts in the Gradebook and assign grades.
Grade Override
Override grades on assignments, discussions, and assessment per individual student circumstances.

Exam Analysis
Analyze and manage exam grades, including reviewing question-level statistics, curving grades and excluding invalid questions from exam grades.

Custom Grading Scales
Customize to use points, pass-fail, percentages, or letter grades to match institutional standards.

Qualitative Notation
Teachers can make personal notes in the Gradebook about a student’s assignment that are not returned to the student allowing qualitative tracking and reporting.

Offline Work Tracking
Instructors may add grades for assignments that are submitted offline so tracking occurs from a single gradebook.

Gradebook Export
Gradebook data can be exported on spreadsheet format to meet our specific data needs.

Assessment Support

Multiple Question Types
Select the appropriate question form to best assess the student’s knowledge of the content of assessment question types are supported, including multiple choice, multiple response, essay, short answer, and matching.

Dynamic Assessment Generation
Dynamically generate assessments by selecting a defined number of questions by objective, question type, or category allowing each student to take a different version of the test.

Access and Visibility Options
Specify when the assessment and results will be visible to the student, as well as password protection, the ability to take the assessment multiple times, a time limit, and due date for the assessment per testing environment.

Communication and Collaboration Tools

Discussion boards
Students and teachers can collaborate using discussion boards; instructors can form discussion groups either randomly or through rule-based assignments.

Email
Instructors and students can use the email tool to send messages to individuals or groups.

Announcements
Instructors can post announcements to the class that display on the student’s home pages.

File Exchange
Students submit assignments using drop boxes and can save their work while in progress; teachers can return revised documents to students through drop-boxes.

Student/Teacher Communication
Students can attach notes to assignments when submitting them, and teachers can return comments to students, along with revised documents.

Live Conferencing Support
Live collaboration is supported through integration with a third party conferencing vendor that provides whiteboard as well as document sharing capabilities.

Productivity Tools

Calendar
Due dates for assignments or assessments display on the students’ calendars.

Student Home Page
The Due Soon pane lists dates and links to upcoming assignments and assessments; links to enrolled courses provides access to course content, grades, and objective mastery statistics; announcements posted provide information from the instructor.

Teacher Home Page
The To-Do list shows outstanding items to grade from all sections; summary charts illustrate student progress and performance, as well as a summary of teacher responsiveness in grading assignments, posts, and exams; a chart for each section shows the number of students as well as visual feedback on teacher responsiveness, student performance, and student pace; Critical Students window flags students that are below in performance or pace–rapidly provide targeted assistance and resources to students.

Teacher Objective Mastery View
Teachers can review reports that provide item level analysis of mastery of each learning objective.

Student Grade and Objective Mastery Views
Students can view grades in the table of contents for each course or on a grade page, which provides drill-down views to results on specific learning activities; students can review their objective mastery through the Objectives report, which provides item level analysis of mastery of each learning objective.

Administration

Authentication
Achieve single sign-on to BrainHoney through numerous authentication models such as Active Directory, SAML, Live@Edu, and CAS or create a custom integration with just about any other system.

Security
All data is encrypted via industry-standard security models.

Multi-Role Course Enrollment
Institutions may use pre-defined roles such as student, instructor, auditor, or may create their own custom roles for enrollment.

Roster Management
Teachers can add or drop students (with appropriate privileges).

Batch User Import
Administrators may batch import users.

Open API
BrainHoney is built on a set of open APIs: institutions may integrate their own systems; the open API may be used to create customized processes for registration, grade reporting, enrollment, and reporting.

Implementation

Easy to implement
BrainHoney is a fully hosted system, requiring only a simple configuration and no installation.

Internet browser access
BrainHoney can be accessed via a standard web browser.

Offline access
Students may work offline through the BrainHoney ToGo offline learning client. Students view content, take exams, submit assignments, even participate in discussions while disconnected from the Internet. Provide equitable access to online learning to students who don’t have broadband access at home, are sick, or out of school for extended periods.