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RCampus ePortfolios Named as Finalist for TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards

Katie — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:30:15 +0000

Reazon Systems, Inc. recognized for the second consecutive year for innovation in education technologies

Irvine, CA, May 4, 2010: Reazon Systems, Inc., the maker of RCampus ePortfolio Management System, was recently named a Finalist for the 17th Annual TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards. This is the second year in a row that Reazon has received an accolade from TechAmerica and is a reflection of the high quality and market success of Reazon’s education technology. Winners will be announced on June 2nd, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, California.

“We are pleased that our innovations are recognized by TechAmerica again this year. Our mission has been to support lifelong learning,” said Ramesh Sabetiashraf, the CEO of Reazon Systems, Inc. “as we strive to provide an ePortfolio solution that is truly user-centric, powerful and intuitive across all age and technical levels.”

RCampus ePortfolio Management System encompasses a personalized learning environment together with feedback and standard-based assessment and self-publishing for a myriad of purposes. Being a component of the larger RCampus Education Management System, RCampus ePortfolios also offers a tightly integrated solution for a wide range of academic needs from course and learning management, to career development and involvement of potential employers as part of students’ learning processes.

Themed “Inventing The Future”, the TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards recognize and honor products and technologies based on five criteria: Degree of Innovation, Technology Advancement, Uniqueness of Competitive Position, Commercial Viability, and Positive Ecological Impact. Other Award Finalists include D-Link, SRS Labs, Powerwave Technologies, and Clarient.

About Reazon Systems, Inc.
Reazon Systems, Inc. is a software development company specialized in turning complex and time-consuming instructional, assessment and content management processes into robust and user-friendly experiences. Its flagship product is RCampus Education Management System which includes ePortfolio System as well as iRubric Assessment and Standards System, Learning Management System, and eCommunity System. To learn more about Reazon and RCampus productline, visit www.reazon.com and www.RCampus.com.

About TechAmerica
TechAmerica is the leading voice for the U.S. technology industry, the driving force behind productivity growth and jobs creation in the United States and the foundation of the global innovation economy. Representing nearly 1,500 member companies of all sizes from the public and commercial sectors of the economy, TechAmerica is the industry’s largest advocacy organization and is dedicated to helping members’ top and bottom lines. It is also the technology industry’s only grassroots-to-global advocacy network, with offices and partnerships in state capitals across the country, Washington DC, Europe (Brussels) and Asia (Beijing) and around the world. TechAmerica was formed by the merger of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA). To learn more, visit www.techamerica.org.

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iRubric-For-Sakai Streamlines Grading With Rubrics And Accreditation Planning

Katie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:02:46 +0000

Announcing the official launch of iRubric-for-Sakai, a comprehensive assessment and analysis suite for Sakai CLE.

Irvine, CA, Jan 21, 2010: Reazon Systems, Inc., a leading provider of education technologies has officially released “iRubric for Sakai” – a comprehensive rubric generation, assessment, and reporting suite for the Sakai CLE (Collaborative Learning Environment).

iRubric’s seamless integration with Sakai CLE allows users to access iRubric directly from the Sakai gradebook. The platform provides educators with rubric generation and assessment tools, students with viewing capabilities for pre- and post-assessment, and administrators with detailed real-time reports for analysis and monitoring of student performance and learning outcomes. The use of rubrics, alignment with standards, and reporting capabilities of iRubric are invaluable for successful accreditation planning. The integration of iRubric with Sakai was the result of a year-long collaborative effort with the Indiana University culminating in a full semester of pilot testing.

“We are excited to have accomplished a seamless integration between the two platforms and to allow Sakai users to easily build and grade rubrics with a few simple clicks,” said Ramesh Sabetiashraf, the creator of iRubric. “Equally important was student privacy and security as sensitive student data transmitted between the two systems. From the onset, our integration effort placed a strong emphasis on ease-of-use and security. We are happy to have fulfilled both objectives to meet our users’ high standards.”

iRubric-for-Sakai is available to K-12 and Higher Education through a variety of flexible licensing and hosting options, designed to meet the needs of a wide range of organizational sizes. Hosting plans eliminate the need for internal infrastructure, IT support, and server maintenance. Schools may also select a licensing plan to host iRubric internally.

For an overview of iRubric-for-Sakai, including a short video clip that highlights the seamless integration, please visit http://www.iRubric.com/sakai.

About iRubric
iRubric, a winner of TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards, streamlines learning assessment and data analysis for educational institutions. Leveraging on its pioneering Click-to-Grade technology, iRubric enables educators and school administrators to effectively monitor student progress and learning outcomes. As a result, iRubric becomes an essential technology enabling educators to meet standards-based and authentic assessment guidelines set by accreditation, state and federal organizations. Being a part of the RCampus Learning Management and ePortfolio systems, iRubric offers assessments across a variety of learning activities.

About Reazon Systems, Inc.
Reazon Systems, Inc., the maker of iRubric and RCampus, is a software technology company specializing in the transformation of complex and time-consuming instructional, assessment and content management processes into robust and user-friendly experiences. Its flagship product is RCampus Education Management System which includes Learning and ePortfolio Management System, Website-builder and Portals System and the iRubric Assessment and Standards System. To learn more about Reazon and the RCampus product-line, visit http://www.RCampus.com.

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The National Science Center Brings Rainforest to Classrooms

Katie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:53:30 +0000

The National Science Center selects the award-winning RCampus platform for their unique educational effort to bring the science of rainforests to 6th – 8th grade teachers.

Irvine, CA, Nov. 24, 2009: Reazon Systems, Inc., a leading provider of web-based educational technologies, has been selected by the National Science Center (NSC) to make the Discovery Academy Rainforest Project available to teachers and students across the nation.

Through this effort, the Discovery Academy Rainforest Project will be housed at a specially enhanced RCampus environment, allowing NSC to facilitate the management and promotion of its course modules more effectively. Teachers who participate in this project will gain access to standards-based course materials designed by NSC at http://NSC.RCampus.com. RCampus will also facilitate the unique assessment needs of NSC for evaluating the effectiveness of its modules as well as tracking students’ performance.

“It has been a privilege to be selected by the National Science Center for advancing its Rainforest Project to a number of classrooms around the U.S.,” said Ramesh Sabetiashraf, the creator of RCampus. “NSC recognized the extent of RCampus capabilities and identified it as the best vehicle for achieving its mission to bring STEM education to classrooms. We look forward to a continuing alliance and growing relationship with NSC as it extends its digital campus through RCampus.”

“Our efforts to bring our course materials to a broad national audience with various demographics has been a substantial undertaking,” said Cheryl Wynn, Program Manager of the Discovery Academy Rainforest Project at The National Science Center. “It has also come with its unique technology needs and challenges. After testing RCampus for a few months, we found it to be the ideal environment with the necessary tools to meet our needs. The RCampus team has been very responsive in helping us create an online presence for our Rainforest Project and making our program easily accessible to our participants. Our goal is to be the leading K-12 courseware provider in various science, technology, engineering and math subjects as we utilize more features of the RCampus environment. Discovery Academy: R.A.I.N. targets 6 – 8th grade middle schoolers, in particular.”

About Reazon Systems, Inc.
Reazon Systems, Inc., the maker of RCampus, is a software technology company specializing in the transformation of complex and time-consuming instructional, assessment and content management processes into robust and user-friendly experiences. Its flagship product is RCampus Education Management System which includes Learning and ePortfolio Management System, Website-builder and Portals System and the iRubric Assessment and Standards System. RCampus is a recipient of the 2009 TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards for its innovation in software technologies. To learn more about Reazon and the RCampus product-line, visit www.reazon.com and www.RCampus.com.

About the National Science Center
The National Science Center (NSC) is a unique partnership between National Science Center, Inc., a non-profit organization, and the United States Army. Its mission is to be a catalyst that excites America’s youth about math, science, engineering and technology. The NSC’s headquarters, Fort Discovery, is located on the scenic Riverwalk in downtown Augusta, GA. The 128,000 square-foot family-oriented math and science center fires the imaginations of children and adults with 250 hands-on exhibits, custom digital theater programs, portable planetarium, educational workshops and demonstrations as well as being the home-base for an array of national educational outreach programs. To learn more about NSC, visit www.NationalScienceCenter.org.

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iRubric For Sakai Launches At The Indiana University

Katie — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:12:49 +0000

The award winning iRubric is selected by the Indiana University School of Education to streamline their assessment processes and align with standards.

Irvine, CA, Sept 17, 2009: Reazon Systems, Inc., a leading provider of education technologies, announced the launching of its iRubric for Sakai integration in collaboration with the Indiana University School of Education for Fall 2009. iRubric Assessment and Standards Management has been fully integrated with OnCourse CLE, Indiana University’s version of Sakai.

Through this integration effort, Indiana University’s OnCourse users can access iRubric from their familiar OnCourse environment, saving considerable time and effort in grading and the aggregation of detailed assessment data required for School of Education’s NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education) accreditation reports.

“We are honored to have been selected by Indiana University as the system-of-choice to address their assessment and accreditation needs,” said Ramesh Sabetiashraf, the creator of iRubric Assessment and Standards Management System. “iRubric users have acknowledged our system as a comprehensive and easy-to-use platform that dramatically improves their productivity. The integration effort has been a continuation of our philosophy to provide the highest level of usability and efficiency to Sakai users and to realize an ideal learning experience for students.”

“Results from our program assessments indicated a need to provide detailed feedback to students using rubrics and in-depth reporting of key measures for analysis of overall teacher education programs effectiveness. iRubric proved to be an excellent solution for meeting these needs. The integration with our Oncourse management system allows us to leverage the extensive investment in our Sakai solution as well as provide an intuitive navigation to the iRubric system. The comprehensive and easy-to-use rubric building and scoring wizards are likely to be incorporated in many of our other courses. We are delighted with the effectiveness of the Reazon engineering team, its attention to detail, secure coding approach and overall responsiveness. We look forward to a continued collaboration.” said Larry Riss, CIO of School of Education at Indiana University.

iRubric, a recipient of a 2009 TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Award, streamlines learning assessment and data analysis for educational institutions. By streamlining the assessment process and using its pioneering Click-to-Grade technology, iRubric enables educators and school administrators to effectively monitor student progress and learning outcomes. As a result, iRubric becomes an essential technology enabling educators to meet standards-based and authentic assessment guidelines set by accreditation, state and federal organizations. Being a part of RCampus Learning Management and ePortfolio systems, iRubric also allows tightly integrated assessments across a variety of learning activities. iRubric is available for licensing to the hundreds of institutions currently using Sakai, an open source learning management system originated at Indiana University and supported by Stanford University, University of Michigan and MIT.

About Reazon Systems, Inc.
Reazon Systems, Inc. is a software technology company specializing in the transformation of complex and time-consuming instructional, assessment and content management processes into robust and user-friendly experiences. Its flagship product is RCampus Education Management System which includes iRubric Assessment System as well as RCampus eLearning, ePortfolios System, and personal and group Portals. To learn more about Reazon and RCampus product-line, visit www.reazon.com and www.RCampus.com.

About the Indiana University School of Education
Ranked Top 20 in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report, the Indiana University School of Education is one of the world’s premier programs for preparing tomorrow’s teachers, counselors, school psychologists, educational leaders, curriculum designers, and educational scholars. The Indiana University School of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the North Central Association Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. It is a member of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. To learn more, visit http://education.indiana.edu

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iRubric Receives TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Award and Special Honors

Katie — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:08:45 +0000

iRubric received the top Innovative Software Award and special Honors for advances in education technologies by TechAmerica.

Irvine, CA, May 21, 2009: Reazon Systems, Inc., a leading provider of education technologies, announced today that it has received the Innovative Software Award and was the sole company to be recognized with special Honors at TechAmerica’s 16th Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards. The award recognizes iRubric, the learning assessment solution by Reazon, for its groundbreaking design and essential application in education. The awards ceremony took place in Hilton Hotel Costa Mesa, CA on May 14, 2009.

“Education has always been my passion and receiving a high tech innovation award for our work in education technologies is an immense honor,” said Reazon founder Ramesh Sabetiashraf. “We’re especially humbled to also receive the honorary recognition by a prestigious group such as TechAmerica. Knowing that the high tech community recognizes and supports our work in advancing education, a vital sector in our society, is especially encouraging.”

iRubric introduces a key innovation in learning assessment and data analysis for educational institutions. By streamlining the assessment process and using its pioneering Click-to-Grade technology, iRubric enables educators and school administrators to effectively monitor student progress and learning outcomes. Consequently, iRubric becomes an essential technology to meet standards-based and authentic assessment guidelines set by accreditation, state and federal organizations. Being a part of RCampus Learning Management and ePortfolio systems, iRubric also allows tightly integrated assessments across a variety of learning activities.

About Reazon Systems, Inc.
Reazon Systems, Inc. is a software development company specialized in turning complex and time-consuming instructional, assessment and content management processes into robust and user-friendly experiences. Its flagship product is RCampus Education Management System which includes iRubric Assessment System as well as RCampus eLearning, ePortfolios System, and personal and group Portals. To learn more about Reazon and RCampus product-line, visit www.reazon.com and www.RCampus.com.

About TechAmerica
TechAmerica is the leading voice and resources for the U.S. technology industry and represents approximately 1,500 member companies of all sizes from all sectors of the economy. It is the industry’s largest advocacy organization and offers the technology industry’s only grassroots-to-global advocacy network, with offices in state capitals around the United States, Washington, D.C., Europe (Brussels) and Asia (Beijing). The Technology Association of America was formed by the merger of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA). To learn more, visit www.techamerica.org.

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iRubric Recognized as Leading Innovative Technology by TechAmerica

Katie — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:54:24 +0000

iRubric has been recognized as a Finalist by the Technology Association of America for its innovation in improving education and streamlining assessment.

Irvine, CA, April 28, 2009: Reazon Systems, Inc. announced today that iRubric, its state-of-the-art Assessment System, has been named as a Finalist for the 16th Annual TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards for Innovative Software Product/Technology. Awards will be presented on May 14th, 2009, in Costa Mesa, California.

“We’re honored to be recognized by TechAmerica for our technology,” says Ramesh Sabetaishraf, the CEO and founder of Reazon Systems, Inc. “We believe allowing teachers to spend more time on teaching and less time on management is fundamental to raising the quality of our education system, and iRubric represents an important step in that process. We’ve already received a tremendous response from the education community as evidenced by over 70,000 user-generated rubrics since our beta release of iRubric. We’re proud to be at the forefront of the education technology revolution and look forward to continue providing similar innovative solutions to tomorrow’s education needs.”

iRubric introduces a key innovation in learning assessment and data analysis for educational institutions. By streamlining the assessment process, iRubric enables educators and school administrators to effectively monitor student progress and learning outcomes. Consequently, iRubric becomes an essential technology to meet standards-based and authentic assessment guidelines set by accreditation, state and federal organizations. Being a part of RCampus Learning Management and ePortfolio systems, iRubric also allows tightly integrated assessments across a variety of learning activities.

Themed “Inventing The Future”, TechAmerica Awards recognize and honor products and technologies based on five criteria: Degree of Innovation, Technology Advancement, Uniqueness of Competitive Position, Commercial Viability, and Positive Ecological Impact. Other Award Finalists include D-Link, SYSPRO, Emulex, and QLogic.

About Reazon Systems, Inc.
Reazon Systems, Inc. is a software development company specialized in turning complex and time-consuming instructional, assessment and content management processes into robust and user-friendly experiences. Its flagship product is RCampus Education Management System which includes iRubric Assessment System as well as RCampus eLearning, ePortfolios and eCommunity Systems. To learn more about Reazon and RCampus productline, visit www.reazon.com and www.RCampus.com.

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Welcome

Katie — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:14:43 +0000

Open Tools for Open Minds

Hi,

I’m Katie, your friendly support staff from www.RCampus.com and its sister websites.
RCampus is a free and open access education management system with an integrated collaborative learning community.
If you have any questions or ran into any troubles at these sites, feel free to contact me at support@RCampus.com.

Cheers,
Katie