Product Features

ODYSSEYWARE Online® Features

Versatile, adaptable, media-rich, and broad in scope, ODYSSEYWARE Online curriculum for students in grades 3-12 can be seamlessly integrated into any educational environment to reach a diverse range of students. With revolutionary features and e-learning solutions, ODYSSEYWARE Online is the simple choice for your school’s primary teaching application.

Multimedia-rich Learning Environment

Fully Internet-based, each ODYSSEYWARE Online course is an interactive, media-rich experience that engages 21st century learners. Our traditional, research-based curriculum is energized to help students connect to material with these outstanding features:

  • Dynamic audio and video files bring lessons to life.
  • 3-D animation illustrates complicated concepts.
  • Slide shows enable students to control the pace of presentations.
  • Relevant Internet links encourage self-directed learning.
  • Challenging games make learning fun.
  • Tiny Tutors direct attention and link key or difficult ideas.
  • Links to primary sources inject historical and global perspectives.
  • Text-to-Speech allows students to hear selected passages or entire lessons to promote greater understanding.

Assessment and Classroom Management Applications

ODYSSEYWARE Online provides automated solutions for organizing, delivering content, and tracking student progress. These tools afford teachers a greater opportunity to adapt and individualize the program in response to student needs:

  • Adaptable lesson planning and pacing save time.
  • Integrated calendar provides structure and direction.
  • Automatic grading supplies immediate student feedback.
  • Automatic recordkeeping seamlessly generates reports for analysis.

Real-time Communication

At ODYSSEYWARE, we understand that effective communication between teachers and students supports learning. Our web-based curriculum is designed to facilitate the flow of information and enrich the learning experience.

  • Message Center allows student-teacher interaction both inside and outside a specific course.
  • Online Help is available with a simple mouse click.
  • Resourceful tools link users to quick reference materials, technical support, and a feedback function.

Customizable Curriculum

Because ODYSSEYWARE Online is customizable, teachers can present instructional materials as provided or modify lessons, assignments, tests, and quizzes to accommodate the needs of individual students. Teachers may select material from existing subjects or create new material with exciting graphics to stimulate critical thinking and digitally enrich the classroom experience. This revolutionary tool makes it possible for schools to create targeted individualized learning plans to reach and teach diverse populations of students with distinct needs and learning styles:

  • Accelerated learning
  • Special education
  • Alternative/continuing education
  • Elective coursework
  • Student remediation
  • Homebound students
  • Educational enrichment

Text Translation Tool

The text translation tool allows text to be translated into eight different languages, including Spanish, French, German, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.