Teams of educators now have a way to create online
courses. The open-publishing platform Versal is beta-testing its Versal for Teams application that provides instructors with
a platform to build courses that include text, video, quizzes, and customizable
interactive simulations that can be published and shared with learners through a web site or blog.
The tool is set up for nonprogrammers, allowing them to
drag and drop items into the course. The team edition provides a dashboard for
managing author activity, course progress, and learner success tracking.
“We instantly started hearing feedback from companies
and universities that they loved the ability to create and publish courses, but
needed tools to manage everything internally. This is only our first step in
building out a platform that is flexible for anyone—individual instructors and
organizations alike,” Versal founders and CEO Gregor Freund told Campus Technology.
The base program is free and includes one gigabyte of
storage for the development of three courses that can be accessed by up to 100
people. Prices range from $250 to $5,000 per month for teams needing the bandwidth
to create more courses.
