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The Learning Management System
Designed for Maritime By Maritime

MINERVA is a web application with companion mobile app that provides the comprehensive solution for students and academic institutions from enrollment to graduation.

The web application covers the major processes of a university with features that are unique to maritime institutions, while the mobile companion provides anytime anywhere access to learning materials for students.

MINERVA facilitates outcomes-based education by providing course setup that identifies each topic with STCW specification. All contents are centralized, ensuring standardization across the entire program and consistency of delivery of each course.

Complete One-Stop Portal for Students

View lesson plan per day per week for the entire school year for those courses he or she is enrolled in. • Read course contents grouped into topics and sub-topics at his or her own pace or in sync with the course's lesson plan. • Save course contents for offline reading. • Easily resume reading of contents based on last viewing as history is always saved by the system. • Submit assignments and/or complete exercises to faculty and get notified via email or via his or her own dashboard about the results. • Get notified via email of scheduled quizzes and/or examinations. • Take quizzes and examinations per topic and get immediate graded results. • View and/or download ebooks related to topics or courses. • View related videos from school site or external sources. • View own academic records, his or her grades per course, and per course the results of every graded items like quizzes and exams. • View overall academic standing in connection with his or her completion of his or her enrolled program. • Record completion of activities related to his or her academic requirements in general and to deployment in particular. • Record progress on his or her training record book. • Participate in school or class forums. • Get email notifications on any announcements posted by school or faculty.

Efficient Class Management for Faculty

Create contents for courses. • Create quizzes and examinations specific to topics and/or courses. • Schedule availability of quizzes and examinations per class. • Post videos and/or links related to topics and/or courses. • Upload ebooks related to topics and/or courses. • Monitor students' progress on reading course topics. • Record student attendance for both virtual and/or classroom sessions. • Set up grading rubrics per course. • Set up lesson plans based on topics per course detailed per day per week. • Create plans for equipment and/or laboratory usage in sync with prepared lesson plans. • View/Print student grades per course per class. • Start or respond to forums with students and/or co-faculty members or school administrators. • Create items for theoretical assessments for students. • Administer theoretical assessment and encode markings per student. • View and monitor progress on training record books if assigned as training officers to supervise cadets. • Post announcements specific to classes or courses.

Comprehensive School Administration Functions

Set up colleges offered by the school. • Set up programs offered under the colleges including detailed syllabus for each. • Set up course outlines detailed to topics and sub-topics. • Create contents for courses. • Create quizzes and examinations specific to topics and/or courses. • Schedule availability of quizzes and examinations per class or per course. • Post videos and/or links related to topics and/or courses. • Upload ebooks related to topics and/or courses. • Set up grading rubrics per course. • Set up lesson plans based on topics per course detailed per day per week. • View/Print student grades per course per class. • Start or respond to forums with students and/or co-faculty members or school administrators. • Post announcements specific to colleges, programs, or classes or courses. • Validate online enrollment by old students. • Validate online application by new students. • Set up academic graduation requirements per college, such as deployment related activities for maritime cadets. • Generate enrollment reports in summary and/or detailed formats. • Generate CHED and MARINA audited reports like Forms 1, 2, 3, and 4, on demand and based on actual encoded data. • Maintain database of faculty per college which includes the courses that each is qualified to handle. • Maintain database of students including complete academic records of each as recorded into the system. • Set up equipments used in the laboratory or practical modules of the offered courses. • Set up details for each school facility like student capacity and availability per day and/or per week.

Adaptive Curriculum Setup

Syllabus setup made per program are referenced to official memorandum by CHED. That is, more than one setup for any program can be maintained depending on whether the officially recommended curriculum has changed from time to time.

This means that students who are already enrolled in some specific curriculum setup are not affected by any updates or changes to the same program's curriculum as these updates are implemented and maintained in another setup.

In connection with possible changes to curriculum, courses within programs can be set to have equivalent courses that exist in other older curriculum.

Enabling Outcomes Based Education

MINERVA facilitates outcomes-based education by providing course setup that identifies each topic with STCW specification.

All contents are centralized, ensuring standardization across the entire program and consistency of delivery of each course.

Real-time Monitoring of Cadets' Activities and Training Records

View students' progress with regards to their academic and onboard training, in batches or individually.

Using facial recognition to log in the student ensures it is the student himself that undertakes the online learning. This detection is also performed intermittently and unbeknownst to the student while he is online.

The facial recognition works when the student is using mobile devices either in Android or iOS platform.