Miscellaneous/Global
- Simple to install and administer.
- Utilizes readily available, industry standard free and open-source software for back-end functionality.
- Attractive default user interface.
- Easy to integrate into your existing web site design.
- Define your own <HEAD></HEAD> tag contents - META tags, cascading style sheets, Javascript, etc.
- Themes separate software logic from presentation, allowing for the creation of a drastically different experience (see note #1, below).
- Theme overrides allow for the selective modification of the default theme without the need to write and maintain a new theme.
- Many UI elements can be collapsed and expanded, allowing you to maximize screen space and focus only on portions that are being used.
- User contact information manager.
- Fully-featured user account search engine.
- Searchable user history.
- Automated lost password retrieval.
- Competitive pricing.
- Class descriptions and syllabi.
- Percentile weighting for each assignment type (ie. 'test','quiz', 'homework', etc).
- Multiple question types: Yes/No, True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, Matching, Fill In The Blank, Short Answer, and Paper/Essay.
- Questions are automatically graded. Short Answer and Paper/Essay question types may (optionally) be held for manual grading by an instructor.
- Instructors may provide written feedback on a per-question, per-student basis.
- Different assign/due dates may be provided on a per-student basis.
- Assignment templates allow instructors to share and re-use curriculum.
- Special 'offline' assignment type allows you to integrate offline curriculum into the TP grading system.
- Easy to use assignment creation tools make curriculum development a snap.
- Incoming and sent message display.
- You can send messages to multiple recipients.
- Persistent new mail message display anywhere in Teacher's Pet.
- Message content styling, quoting, image embedding, links, etc.
- Multiple, defineable forum areas.
- Message display by thread.
- Admins and Teachers can edit or delete posts and threads.
- Message content styling, quoting, image embedding, links, etc.
- Special thread toggle, so that they always appear on top of list.
- Restrict access to forum areas based on levels (Levels include Admin, Teacher and Student).
- Easy to navigate hierarchical structure.
- Unlimited knowledge base articles and categories.
- Articles can be mirrored within multiple categories.
- Each category has fully editable description, with full styling (color, image, links, etc) support.
- Each article has editable synopsis and description, with full styling (color, image, links, etc) support.
- Optional category and article comments, providing a means for readers to provide feedback and/or annotate knowledge base documents.
- Article ratings by readers, letting you know what needs to be improved.
- Restrict access to articles and categories based on levels (Levels include Admin, Teacher, and Student).
- Set unfinished articles and categories to draft status, hiding them from view until they are complete.
- Knowledge article search engine with contextual result display, fuzzy full text search, etc.
