UIUC is the abbreviation of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This is the second public university after Illinois State University in Illinois State of United States. In the system of University of Illinois, it is the largest and most prominent campus. This name to the university was given in 1982 after over 100 years of establishment. An enterprise learning management system is also known as uiuc compass. This system provides student, faculty and instructors tools and online space. In this system, there are contents related to courses which are prepared, managed and delivered at this portal, students are also assessed with various activities, grades are also published, and course material is also present online. The instructor, teachers and designers of Illinois University are allowed to use this system at any time.

This uiuc compass is helpful for students as they can access study material at any time. This system also remains under regular maintenance that is done every Wednesday. The time of the maintenance is from 5-9 A.M. At this time users are not able to make use of the system. Teachers use this system to publish the course material, provide online instruction to students, and can also take the test of student by providing with them with questions in different form. Teachers can also publish the marks obtained by student in various activities. There are many helpful resources provided by the system to train teachers how to make the good use of this system.

To use uiuc compass first thing that students should do is to login with a valid user ID and password. There are complete tools provided so that student can make the full use of this system. Help button is also provided in case of any assistance is required to operate on this system. The best use of this system can be made when there is very less traffic. System might respond little slowly due to heavy traffic. Students are also advised to back up important files from time to time. Students can take quizzes in this compass by the assessment button available and can also view their scores. Students can also download and submit the materials related to course from this compass using the assignment button provided. UIUC compass is the best way to teach, learn, and assess outside the classrooms.  

Education of mankind is very important to maintain the continuous growth in the development of science and technology. Before the arrival of the online generation imparting teaching was a mundane affair with the teacher inviting students to the class room and then giving them valuable lessons. There has been clamor among the various institutions to offer courses and their methods have also become very different. With the revolution in the web technology we need to know that a lot of activities can be done in a better way as compared to in the past and somebody said that technology is a great leveler. The time has come wherein we as a people have access to the material. And then we also can become good professionals once we lay hands on the subject. The increase of the bandwidth would lead us to more and more convergence. The primary example is uiuc compass where uiuc is the Illinois Urbana Champaign University. This is the second state university in Illinois and is the pioneer in e-education in the world. The compass is basically a web tool of the university which is available to the registered students of the university. They are provided with the user name and the password. They login to the system using their username and password and they can download study material and the assignments from the website. They can finish it within the stipulated time and can then submit it.

It is a wonderful tool and is very famous. A lot of people can use it and become more enlightened. This is a wonderful effort from the university authorities to provide distant education through internet. The only thing you need to have in your house is an internet connection. Many institutions have tries to emulate the uiuc compass with varying degrees of success. This concept is so good that we can easily apply to universities in case of distant education. We should first register the web space in the web server and then we should upload different study materials and we can also arrange for the tutors through video interaction. This would help us to create a new business and I am sure it would be extremely popular. As more and more students are getting enrolled in distance learning program in every university or college offering such programs, it becomes necessary to keep record of all students, their details, fees paid, course duration, subject etc in correct order.