TOPYX

Adrianne McKinney

The University of Montevallo


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Overview of Topyx:

Topyx is a Social Learning Management System, employing a set of integrated social learning tools including Web conferencing, chat, scheduling, surveys, blogs, shout boxes, and pictures. There is a flat rate with no user fees. Topyx enhances social and informal learning environments while maintaining traditional learning management system functionality and SCORM certified environment.


The following video introduce Topyx:

Features:

  • Customizable with branded logos and colors, personalized URL, white label availability, and optional multi-skins

  • Separate user identities/roles including learner, instructor, manager, administrator, and groups

  • Catalog includes marketing tiles, sponsor links, cover flow, subject areas, and courses and materials tabs

  • Course management includes learning trees, webinars, enrollment, sessions with waitlists, attendance, content, quizzes, assignments, and grading

  • Certificates

  • Includes scheduled reports, standard reports, flexible reports, exportable reports, and Google Analytics

  • Profiles include personal schedule, bios and media gallery, communities, social networking plug-ins, friends, personal blog, and custom links

  • Social learning features include calendaring, chat, announcements, events, articles, polls, blogs, Shoutbox, pictures, documents, and forums

  • Social learning with public and private with moderator privileges

  • Administrative features include course and program creation, create learning paths, import/export function, management of users, subjects, and accreditations, and language groups, various settings including email and navigation, and transcripts


Advantages:

  • User-friendly dashboard

  • Social learning tools

  • Communities, chat, profiles, videos

  • All Internet browsers supported

  • Access via mobile devices, including training and collaboration materials

  • Supports most multi-media file types

  • Create standard, scheduled, or flexible reports, all fully exportable in Excel or PEDF format

  • Optional languages

  • Single Sign-on (SSO) technology

  • Eliminates user licensing fees with a fixed flat fee

  • Unlimited users, bandwidth, and storage for no additional cost

  • Free implementation, customer service, and branding


Disadvantages:

  • Because Topyx is a social learning platform, larger class sizes or larger organizations may not benefit from this learning management system

  • Students must be prepared for a different structure and learning routine, including more social interactions


References

TOPYX. (2016.). Retrieved February 02, 2016, from https://topyx.com/

TOPYX Integrations. (2016). Retrieved February 02, 2016, from https://www.getapp.com/hr-employee-management-software/a/topyx

/integrations/

[TOPYX LMS]. (2012, May 22). Learning Management System (LMS) TOPYX. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com

/watch?v=es0ouvsl_G8