EdTek Services, Inc.

EdTek Services offers a full service, cloud-hosted, turn-key approach to distance learning systems and support. EdTek provides its customers with a specified campus portal, the selected learning management system, hosting services in the cloud, and system monitoring and maintenance IT staff.

Uniquely, EdTek provides prospective customers with an unlimited and fully supported free trial of both LMS options. This includes building out a portion of a client’s course that can be used to test both the LMS and collaboration with EdTek staff.

On the backend, EdTek gives its customers free version upgrades, free administrator and instructor training, instructional design and course development support, an avid Help Desk and a dedicated Client Service Consultant to help run the organization’s distance learning programs with as few issues as possible.

In addition, every customer gets the following with their package:

• State-of-the-art hosting in the cloud, with no hardware or software purchases required
• Day-to-Day Administrator Support
• Technical Support Help Desk
• An Instructional Designer to help design courses
• A Course Developer to help build courses
• Access to photo, graphics, audio and video libraries to utilize content that helps enhance courses

Learning Management System: EdTek Services offers two learning management systems. Each of these systems offers users a rich feature set, SCORM and HTML5 compliance, mobile access and Open API.

• itsLearning puts curriculum resources, instructional strategies, objective-based lesson plans and assessments in a central location for elementary, secondary and post-secondary teachers. The platform enhances collaboration and sharing, automates routine teacher tasks and facilitates numerous ways to create lessons and use resources.
• Created for the workplace, Topyx LMS sports features designed for peer-to-peer, informal and formal learning throughout an organization, wherever colleagues may be located or whichever device they are using.

Course Design Support: EdTek assigns an Instructional Designer (ID) as soon as a prospective customer indicates interest in any of the LMS options offered. The ID will confer with a client’s subject matter experts to assess content and can assist with designing and organizing material to optimize its engagement with the end-learner. The ID can help devise a blueprint or template for all planned courses.

Course Build Support:  Once the blueprint is completed, it is handed to a Course Developer who begins helping each client build the curriculum. This Course Development Support is included in every contract. Clients that want a little less or more curriculum development, or who’d like to build one-off courses, can contract EdTek for custom course development work.