1. GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © منظومة جاما التعليمية GamaLearn E-leaning and management solutions for universities

2. GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © One Angle.. Many Perspectives

3. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Convert your Campus to a Digital SmartZone ©..

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5. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Convert your Campus to a Digital SmartZone ©..

6. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Why SmartZone? SmartZone is a product of GamaLearn, Microsoft Certified Partner, Built on the latest technology with more than 20 years experience in educational field in the Arab Gulf. SmartZone is a product of GamaLearn, Microsoft Certified Partner, Built on the latest technology with more than 20 years experience in educational field in the Arab Gulf. SmartZone has been evaluated by the commission for Academic Accreditation - UAE SmartZone has been evaluated by the commission for Academic Accreditation - UAE SmartZone is an All in One solution for University Administration and Learning Activities Management. SmartZone is an All in One solution for University Administration and Learning Activities Management. SmartZone is implemented in both Yemen, Egypt and recently in UAE with more than 5000 students yearly. SmartZone is implemented in both Yemen, Egypt and recently in UAE with more than 5000 students yearly.

7. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Why SmartZone? SmartZone hosted in a most secured hosting center in USA with unlimited bandwidth for your usage. SmartZone hosted in a most secured hosting center in USA with unlimited bandwidth for your usage. SmartZone saves the needed infrastructure cost for you by offering a Hosted and Managed service. SmartZone saves the needed infrastructure cost for you by offering a Hosted and Managed service. SmartZone is a bilingual Solution ( Arabic and English ) SmartZone is a bilingual Solution ( Arabic and English ) SmartZone is a real Cost effective solution, focusing on the essential operations for universities. SmartZone is a real Cost effective solution, focusing on the essential operations for universities. SmartZone is a customized solution, built based on the international accreditation standards. SmartZone is a customized solution, built based on the international accreditation standards.

8. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Where is the problem? As a new fresh university you may not recognize it, but while you are getting through, an underlying technology problem will arise : The Disjointed Campus

9. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © The Disjointed Campus Not prepared to expand service cost-effectively. Not prepared to expand service cost-effectively. Not supporting existing technologies for future growth Not supporting existing technologies for future growth Expected a lot of bottlenecks Expected a lot of bottlenecks Repeated Interrupts all over the campus Repeated Interrupts all over the campus Complications while service delivery Complications while service delivery Leads to an inefficient Business Leads to an inefficient Business

10. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © GamaLearn’s Vision Convert your Campus to a Digital SmartZone..

11. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © SmartZone.. Expand your services Cost-effectively Accessing all the information from one single portal One login … All activities … high security Lower total cost of technology ownership Integrated solution for University Administration and Learning Activities

12. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © SmartZone.. Offering the needed channels between Students, Instructors, And Administration. Let you expand your services outside the campus with no more cost. Offering online operation for all the university services over the internet. Unlimited access to your solution for your students, instructors and administrators.

13. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © One Angle.. Many Perspectives 1- Administration’s perspective..

14. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Administration’s perspective.. The Administration department will start implementing the SmartZone setup for the university configurations. The steps will be as: Building the university hierarchy. Distributing the credit hours for each program over different requirements Building the university constants. Identification, description, and classification of the studying courses in the system. Building the study plan for the each academic program.

15. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the university hierarchy. Adding Colleges, departments And specializations tree. Selecting pricing model

16. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the university hierarchy. Building Department, Specialization For each college

17. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Distributing the credit hours over the different requirements For University, College and Department whether they are compulsory or Elective.

18. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Distributing the credit hours over the different requirements Credit hours are distributed Also on different semesters. Note: the system gives alert message when the sum of the semester hours exceeds the. predefined value.

19. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the university constants E.g. Ranks, positions, degrees, marks and grades by numbers, percentage, letters and points. Importance: The system puts into consideration these constants when entering any variables that are related to. It will make objection for any conflict that may happen.

20. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the university constants E.g. Ranks, positions, degrees, marks and grades by numbers, percentage, letters and points. Importance: The system puts into consideration these constants when entering any variables that are related to. It will make objection for any conflict that may happen.

21. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the university constants E.g. Ranks, positions, degrees, marks and grades by numbers, percentage, letters and points. Importance: The system puts into consideration these constants when entering any variables that are related to. It will make objection for any conflict that may happen.

22. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the university constants Teaching Loads distributions example: E.g.: Adding an instructor who is a holder of PHD with Max teaching 9 hours, When giving him the teaching Loads like (12 hours). We notice the Response of the system according to the standards for licensure and accreditation committee (3-8-9 Faculty loads).

23. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the university constants Teaching Loads distributions E.g.: Adding an instructor of PHD with Max teaching 9 Hours and has a management position, When giving him the teaching Loads like (9 hours), We notice the Response of the system according to The standards for licensure and accreditation committee (3-8-9 Faculty loads). Same will be happened when assigning courses to him with more that 6 hours.

24. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the university constants Note that the system takes Care About Matching Ranks and Degrees according to the predefined constants

25. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Identification, description, and classification of the studying subjects E.g. defining The college, department and specialization of this subject. Also distributing the credit ours of The subject between (theoretically/practically). The type of requirement university, college or department ) of each subject. Whether it is compulsory or elective. the necessary prerequisites of thissubject.

26. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the study plan for the whole academic program. Considerations: Distributing the compulsory subjects over all the semesters according to their classification (college, department, specialization And grade)

27. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the study plan for the whole academic program. Considerations: Comparing the stored value of total semester hours to the real sum of compulsory hours and adding entries for electives by the difference Total of Compulsory credit hours match with saved total semester hours.

28. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the study plan for the whole academic program. When there is a difference between total of compulsory credit hours, and total saved semester hours, a selection box will be opened for the management to add electives. Considerations: Comparing the stored value of total semester hours to the real sum of compulsory hours and adding entries for electives by the difference

29. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the study plan for the whole academic program. Considerations: There should not be any compulsory or elective department courses in the first year. University requirements often are in the first two years followed by the college requirements. Then department requirements start.

30. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building the study plan for the whole academic program. Finally The study plans are ready for students. They can browse it through the Internet/Intranet web pages, select the needed subject, and again the system will responds based on the system controls.

31. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © What Next? From the administration we can assign instructors to subjects in each semester. Administrators can approve/reject the students selections for any extra reasons The system delivers the approved subjects contents to the student account. The system links both student and instructor for each selected subject.

32. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © One Angle.. Many Perspectives 2- Student’s perspective..

33. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Abdullah Abdullah is a new student, wants to register in Information Technology Management College, 1 st Level, 1 st Semester.

34. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Starting Admission Process

35. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Automatic Reply with the needed Documents

36. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © New Admissions Appears in the Administration New Admissions Appears in the Administration

37. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Approving Student Admission Approving Student Admission

38. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Login to My Account

39. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Starting Semester Registration

40. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Browsing Semester Study Plan

41. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Selecting Semester Courses

42. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Submitting Selected Courses

43. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Automatic Reply from the System Automatic Reply from the System

44. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Automatic E-mail from the System

45. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Student Financial Report - Accounts

46. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Student’s Payment Details - Accounts

47. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Student’s Account with Approved Courses Student’s Account with Approved Courses

48. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Fatema Fatema is an old student, she can review her last semester Grades

49. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Get exercises from instructor Chatting area Arabic/English between students Add comments and useful note, get it back anytime anywhere Student’s Study Area

50. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © What happens When Students Choose their courses? Only classified courses that are related to the student’s college, department and level will appear to the student to select from.

51. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © What happens When Students Choose their courses? The system will take care if student’s total Credit Hours selected shouldn’t exceed total saved semester hours. Total semester Hours

52. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © What happens When Students Choose their courses? The system will take care if the student took the necessary prerequisites or not.

53. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © What happens When Students Choose their courses? The system will take care that the sum of credit hours selected match the GPA rules.

54. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © One Angle.. Many Perspectives 3- Instructor’s perspective..

55. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Dr. Ahmad AlKudsy is a professor in Business Administration college, has assigned to a new course in spring 2004 semester, and got his new ID and Password. He will start arrange his duties for this semester, updating course content, course assessments, and prepare a welcome message for his new students.

56. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Reviewing his courses list

57. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Updating his course content

58. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Adding New Lesson

59. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Adding Questions

60. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Preparing his Exams

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62. www.GamaLearn.com GamaLearn @ Higher Education SmartZone © Building None Random Exam

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