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Technology & Support

Facebook	http://www.facebook.com/LibertyUniversityBusiness
LinkedIn	N/A
Twitter	N/A

Usable for classes

Required Internet speed

56k

Recommended Internet speed

DSL

Delivery modes

Live streaming video	No
Live streaming audio	No
Recorded video	Yes
Recorded audio	Yes
Software-based readers	No
Application for display on tablet computer	Yes
Description of tablet application	N/A
Application for display on smartphone	Yes
Description of application for smartphone	N/A
Bulletin boards	Yes
Simulations	Yes
Online labs	Yes

Courses designed by certified instructional designers

Yes

Courses designed by an outside firm

Learning management system

Yes

All courses accessible to students from one learning management system

Yes

Blackboard

Yes

Services

Academic advising	Yes
Bookstore	Yes
E-mail address	Yes
Financial aid office/services	Yes
Access to digitized library materials	Yes
Access to live librarian	Yes
Local area network	Yes
Mentoring	Yes
Technical support	Yes
Live tutoring	Yes
Writing workshops	Yes

Instructor response expected within (hours)

24-7 live tech support

Tech support availability

Archived classes

N/A

Classes can be received live

N/A

Live online/on-campus classes after 5 p.m.

Few

Percentage of classes with lectures

None

Student-student engagement

Online chatrooms	N/A
Web conferencing (webinars)	N/A
Skype or other visual software	N/A

New-student orientation	Optional
Review and sign ethics statement	Yes
Number of times a week students must log in to a typical course	N/A
Number of times per month faculty evaluate student participation	N/A
Number of times per month faculty provide feedback to students on participation	N/A
Courses requiring students to work collabratively with other students	Minority
Class participation graded	Yes

Exams	No
Number of settings in which in-person exams are administered	N/A
Anti-plagiarism screening required for essay assignments	Depends
Measures to instill academic integrity (as submitted by school)
Students must log in to a password secured account before accessing their courses. Also, most of our courses employ the use of very large test banks for questions and via test pools and randomization of test questions to give each student within a class a different exam. We also deploy the tool Safeassign to guard against plagiarism. We have also been testing various other systems ranging from those that take a digital 'fingerprint' (where students access the courses from) to ones that utilize search engine data to ask students to verify certain information about themselves before they take a test.