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StudyMate Class “Lite”
A free Lite version contains much of the core functionality of StudyMate Class.1 At the end of the 3-month pilot period for StudyMate Class, institutions can either purchase a license for the full version of StudyMate Class or switch to the Lite version for free. To participate in a pilot program, the license administrator of your institution's learning management system should fill out and return the StudyMate Class License Agreement.
| Feature Comparison1
| Lite
| Standard
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| Pricing for academic institutions |
Free |
Tiered pricing |
| Three templates for creating or editing items |
Yes |
Yes |
| Instructors and/or students can create items |
Yes |
Yes |
| Maximum number of items/questions per course |
400 |
Unlimited |
| Learning activities: Fact Cards, Flash Cards and Quiz |
Yes |
Yes |
| Supports accessible and assistive technologies, including screen magnifiers, alternative input devices, and screen readers |
Yes |
Yes |
| Accessible from mobile devices (iPhone, iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry, Palm Pre, and more) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ticket-based technical support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Integration with the learning management system (via a Blackboard Building Block or PowerLink, ANGEL Learning Object, or Moodle Module)2 |
Yes |
Yes |
| The MyStudyMate project type allows students to work independently and only view items they’ve created |
Yes |
Yes |
| Student activity can be monitored |
Yes |
Yes |
| Student activity can be graded (grades appear in the course management system gradebook) |
No |
Yes |
| Additional learning activities: Fact Cards Plus, Pick a Letter, Fill in the Blank, Glossary, Matching, Crosswords, Challenge, and Show All |
No |
Yes |
| Images can be added to new or existing items |
No |
Yes |
| Localization for non-English languages (Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Finnish) |
No |
Yes |
| Multiple choice questions can be copied directly to the learning management system’s native assessment tool |
No |
Yes |
| StudyMate projects and content are retained when courses are copied |
No |
Yes |
| Questions can be imported from Respondus or StudyMate Author3 |
No |
Yes |
| Items can be exported from one StudyMate Class project and imported into another |
No |
Yes |
| Includes a free campus-wide license of StudyMate Author, the client-based version of StudyMate |
No |
Yes |
1. Features subject to change.
2. StudyMate Class is a hosted service with data stored on the institution's ANGEL, Blackboard or Moodle server. To enable faster interactions, a cache of the project data is stored temporarily on a Respondus server. Institutions in Canada will be hosted on a Canadian-based server.
3. Questions containing media files and HTML are excluded; only Multiple Choice and True-False questions are retained from Respondus files.
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