Clients across the country need to meet the challenge of how to best deliver and manage professional development for their educators. KDS Online Professional Development allows clients to harness technology in order to deliver, assess, and track high-quality training at a reduced cost.

Knowledge Delivery Systems' Comprehensive Professional Development Solution is unique because it provides both a Learning Management System and an e-Learning Platform, The KDS Classroom, in one. The integrated system is entirely web-based and available 24/7, on demand and supports hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users.

Through the Knowledge Delivery System's KDS Classroom (E-Learning Platform), users can instantly access e-learning courses in a diverse assortment of educational topics produced by nationally acclaimed educators. Through online streaming media, the KDS Classroom greatly enriches resources with a course library encompassing such content areas as Differentiated Instruction, Classroom Management, School Leadership, Technology Integration, Literacy, and Mathematics. KDS will also work with clients to produce custom content series, including high-quality video lectures with a wealth of supplementary resources.

The KDS Classroom hosts dynamic e-learning lectures, which consist of video and audio-based lectures with synchronized PowerPoint slideshows. The easy-to-use platform incorporates intercommunication, built-in assessment activities, and evaluation features. The classroom system also provides access to printable resources including: study guides, topic resources, online note-taking sessions, personal teacher Blogs, and coursework profiles.

Through KDS's Discussion Forums, users engage in interactive, topic-specific discussions about the courses in which they participate. Administrators can use these discussion forums to post assignments, announcements, share best practices, and foster intercommunication amongst participating educators.

The engaging learning system is also integrated with a unique Learning Management System (LMS) to provide instant accountability and tracking for administrators. KDS's powerful LMS can be tailored to meet the needs of client administrators, as the robust reporting system can provide reports organized by the school, district, and state levels. (The creation of groups, subgroups, and administrators at each level of the hierarchy can be customized to meet client's specific needs.)

District and subgroup summary report data may be accessed by designated client administrators, and monitored, printed and/or exported to other programs. Administrators seeking a paper compilation of coursework can instruct all participants to harness the "Print My Coursework" tool, which prints users' cumulative coursework by topic, including Course Objectives, Pre-Assessment Q&A, Post-Assessment Q&A, Discussion Board entries, and notes taken inside the KDS Classroom platform.

Through the KDS Administrators' Console designated staff training supervisors can view hierarchically organized data. They have instant access to users' activities, login times, assessment scores, Discussion Board and Blog entries, participant progress, and course completions. The administrator's console also empowers supervisors to post assignments, enforce best practices, and grant or deny coursework approval. The system is highly interoperable with other systems and can export data to a variety of programs.

Knowledge Delivery Systems will provide Clients with a completely customized online experience including customized online registration systems, a brande client website portal and even an e-commerce system, upon request.

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