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[color=#7e90bf]For Teachers[/color] Thank you for your interest in
Jappleng University! We’re very proud to be presenting the
next-generation in digital education. In this document we will be
discussing what we have to offer teachers, but be sure to also take
a look at our other help documents such as “For Parents” which
would be a great resource for any teacher.
[color=#7e90bf]Introduction to Jappleng[/color] Jappleng is an old
idea from 2005 which was just recently turned into a
next-generation project. What couldn’t be done before can now be
done with the latest availability of internet-related technology.
You want your students to get the best out of their education and
so do we! That’s why we have created Jappleng University. Please
note that we are not a University or a College institution, it is
by name only and we host a collection of knowledge and people may
use the opportunity to teach, students may learn, and we have a
community much like you’d imagine on a university campus. Jappleng
does just about everything such as allowing people to publish their
own news relating to Japan, learning Japanese and about the
Japanese culture, get informed about travel related information
such as how to stay safe in Japan, how to get there and life in
general in Japan. We also provide a social network, video service,
community forums, online chat, a state-of-the-art education
platform, user achievements (great for motivation!), online clubs,
blogs and so much more… [color=#7e90bf]Why use Jappleng for your
school?[/color] Face it, there’s a universal problem when it comes
down to using these terribly developed online applications where
they force you to use Java and crash all the time. Jappleng does
NOT use Java, everything is done strictly online and just about
everything is backwards compatible down to Internet Explorer 7.
However, please note that the newest and greatest browsers will
make the site look cleaner because older browsers don’t support
certain styling elements. You can use Jappleng on your PC, Mac,
Phone, Tablet and virtually almost anything that can browse the
internet. Yes, this means you can use Jappleng on your Wii U, or
Playstation 4 – it works universally! Now that’s something to be
proud of! But compatibility and usability is not the only thing
that is wonderful about using Jappleng. Rather, you can create an
entire course from start to finish, use public assets from our
library to help create your lessons, create quizzes, borrow some of
our nifty scripts and track the progress of your students (either
individually and as a whole). But that’s just the beginning, each
lesson can be expertly formatted, homework assignments can be
created (as many as you need per lesson), you can use attachments
in each lesson, and even clone your course over to a new one if you
teach more than one class! If you think that’s all the features
that we offer teachers, you would happily be mistaken. We also have
“bubble kana” which detects Japanese words and when a student
hovers over it they can get more information about it. Students may
also keep track on their vocabulary, see what they’re good at and
not-so good at. Each course is allowed a customizable course forum
where students may ask each other questions and the teacher may
also help. Teachers may also opt to enable comments for each lesson
where students may directly ask questions to that particular
lesson. The list of features goes on and on, and we’re happy to be
releasing more improvements as time goes by. [color=#7e90bf]How
safe and reliable is this system?[/color] We have meticulously
developed anti-malware and anti-hacking software for our project
which means that under most conditions it’s a fairly safe place.
All scripts on Jappleng check for a number of vulnerabilities that
are sometimes used on other websites and we make sure to block
attacks. Jappleng is very reliable in the sense that it is
cloud-based. This means that if one node (server) goes down,
another will pick it up. If one server is slow, it will balance the
load with another server and so on… Our nodes are also not just in
one location but scattered around the world! This way, if a severe
storm takes down one network, there are backups elsewhere. We also
have DDoS preventative measures placed on our servers and our
server provider has their own as well for good measure. The
likelihood of Jappleng going down is incredibly low at this point
but it could theoretically happen. Last but not least, we encrypt
sensitive data and pass it through a 2048-bit SSL connection.
Consider that the government requires a minimum of 128-bit
encryption on their systems, we go above and beyond with 2048-bit.
[color=#7e90bf]How much does it cost / who pays for it?[/color]
This is a tricky question and it really depends on the situation.
Courses developed by teachers are generally counted as a
per-student basis and not per-lesson. Teachers are required to set
a timeframe for the duration of the course and cannot publish their
course until the last lesson is published. Don’t worry, you may
decide when students may see new lessons and can edit them at any
time. It’s just that the lesson itself must be created before the
course can go live for your students. Each student are required to
pay the enrolment fee, this fee has not yet been decided as we’re
still under private-beta and are still deciding on what would be a
reasonable price that wouldn’t upset the students. The going rate
for our competitors is generally around $40 per student, however we
plan being very competitive and offer our courses at a cheaper rate
than them. We have help documents / videos that show teachers how
their students may enroll in their classes and how the entire
process works. Simply put, you can either have your student buy
Jappleng Tokens which can be redeemed at your course page (with a
unique course enrolment ID) or you can do it for your students and
offer them a coupon that does this automatically. In some instances
we may allow teachers to provide courses free of charge if certain
requirements are met. For instance, we don’t want students to feel
left out if they absolutely cannot pay for it or if a school is in
a third world country, the rates may differ entirely. We can make
special exceptions if you let us know. [color=#7e90bf]When will
Teachers be able to create courses?[/color] This portion of
Jappleng is presently in the private-beta stage. We say
private-beta because only a select few can join and create courses
using our specialized learning management system. When we are done
developing this system, we can let you know if you want.
[color=#7e90bf]Contact Information[/color] You may send us an
inquiry over at teachers [{@}] Jappleng [.] com (kindly remove the
brackets and spaces, this is to prevent spam on our end) We would
love to work with you and your school however we can!