OU Educate™ Product Overview 

The Web is becoming one of the most important tools in the academic world. OU Educate is the leading solution that enables educators to easily manage teaching web portfolios, publish research, and to document their academic and professional growth.  OU Educate was developed specifically to empower faculty, with any level of technical expertise, to quickly and easily create, update, and maintain their own web pages. As a stand-alone system, or a supplement to existing Course Management Systems, OU Educate gives faculty the "academic freedom" to build their own web-based teaching tools without the limitations inherent to other systems. Designed for high user acceptance with a very low cost, OU Educate is enabling faculty in schools nationwide to improve the overall effectiveness of their web-related communications with their students.

Easy to Use:  The OU Educate interface is as simple as point-click-and-type with no HTML or programming to learn. Most faculty will find the editing toolbar so familiar and intuitive, that they will be able to create and personalize their own web portfolio with minimal instruction.

Reduce Training - Reduce Costs:  No need to spend IT resources training faculty on the intricacies of HTML and FTP! Faculty will quickly embrace the easy to use browser-based OU Educate solution, resulting in a high usage rate without additional training costs.

"Most schools can purchase OU Educate at a fraction of the cost of sending staff through web maintenance training."

24/7 Accessibility: Faculty often work from more than one computer. As a browser-based system, OU Educate allows faculty to conveniently maintain their web portfolios from any computer with Internet access without additional user licenses, downloads, or installations.

Improve Compliance with ADA Section 508:  Most schools are required to comply with the specified design standards of ADA Section 508. OmniUpdate's automated prompts help improve section 508 compliance of each faculty member's individual web pages.

Compatibility - Seamless Integration: OU Educate is compatible with existing web sites and systems. Maintaining the investment in the existing web site, files can be imported and uploaded in their current formats - even pages created in Dreamweaver and FrontPage. Seamless implementation can occur in as little as a few days without changes to your institution's web site and, in most cases, with no additional hardware or software.