STRATEGIC ^Learning

FINTELO encourages individuals to communicate like never before by offering synchronous and asynchronous communication options all in one system! Utilizing real-time chat and threaded discussion groups pave the way for collaboration and build a sense of community among users.

Each student may join a group chat, interacting with peers in a class, engage in one-on-one dialogue, or do both simultaneously. Real-time chat facilitates meaningful conversation between and among learners about learning, as well as with teachers.

Learners utilize the Threaded Discussion Groups to communicate with their peers or trainers in an asynchronous manner – allowing learners to communicate, read and reply to their peers’ posts at a time that is most convenient for them!

Online courses, when developed most effectively, focus on learning. For deep learning to occur, students construct their own learning and become “active” and fully engaged in the learning process. FINTELO’s foundation rests on current teaching and learning theory, as exemplified in FINTELO’s Teaching & Learning Cycle. FINTELO guides teachers to design an online experience centered around the student by systematically aligning tasks, assignments, and discussions to the course intended learning outcomes.

FINTELO’s Virtual Office consists of a bookshelf, monitor, and binder. The Virtual Office allows students to easily navigate between courses, perform many key activities within FINTELO, and visually manage all their course information via announcements, tasks, calendar, grades, and much more.

The FINTELO bookshelf allows for easy navigation and to visually perform many key activities within FINTELO. The user can swiftly move to another class or function. It’s easy, simply click on the designated book. The bookshelf’s functions are universal for all users—administrators, instructors, and students.

FINTELO’s full-featured assessment builder makes it simple to construct effective and engaging assessments. FINTELO’s assessments provide several means to measure what a student has learned though graphics, drag and drop, matching, multiple choice, multiple answer, true/false, ordering, fill in the blank, and essay questions. FINTELO’s assessments can be manually or automatically graded in the gradebook – saving you valuable time!

Creating stunning and engaging courses has never been easier. FINTELO’s patented Course Wizard allows teachers to create, edit, or import courses and workshops on the fly. This leaves teachers with time to do what’s needed – teach!

Establishing intended learning outcomes for each workshop, and/or lesson, provides benefits to its users. Explicitly-stated intended learning outcomes increase learners’ awareness of what’s required of them, allow trainers to evaluate and enhance their own teaching and curriculum, offers common ground for organizational departments, and provides the framework for workshop design and revision. FINTELO incorporates learning outcomes within every lesson that then can be aligned with the workshop’s intended learning outcomes.

In addition to chat and threaded discussion groups, FINTELO has a feedback feature. Feedback is a great system that facilitates meaningful discussion between learners and their trainers about particular work items – what’s working or not working – allowing trainers the opportunity for mid-workshop corrections to enhance learning. FINTELO’s feedback feature is available for every assignment and/or assessment.