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“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

For as long as civilization has existed, human beings have had a thirst for knowledge to make their lives easier or to satiate their curiosity. Until the past two decades, schools, colleges, and universities were the only centers for education. However, all of that quickly changed with the advent of online teaching. 

Online teaching has revolutionized how we learn and share information, breaking many boundaries and making education accessible. Thus, online education is an excellent alternative to its offline counterparts, whether curriculum-based or vocational learning. 

The recent pandemic further plummeted the popularity of learning management solutions, making them almost ubiquitous. However, the question remains — can online education be as good as real-life classes? Can they be even better? And finally, can they replace offline education?

Online education has already surpassed offline learning in terms of accessibility. However, traditional learning management solutions still have miles to go regarding security, affordability, ease of use, and personability. This is why many institutions and corporates, even today, shy away from using them.

Thankfully, a new breed of online learning solutions addresses the above problems and offers state-of-the-art online learning experiences to educational institutions and corporates. This review will focus on ‘Unik,’ an excellent online learning platform– that empowers institutions and employers to offer a seamless educational experience through innovation.

Unik has already made quite a name for itself in educational and corporate circuits due to its emphasis on security, flexibility, and ease of use. It simplifies learning, grading, evaluation, attendance tracking, information sharing, invoicing, and video conferencing while making personalized education affordable.

This review will cover the following points:

• What is Unik?
• Key Features of Unik LMS
• Our Final Verdict

So let’s get started, shall we?

What is Unik?

Unik is a pathbreaking Learning Management System from the house of Prepaze that focuses on making personalized teaching easy and affordable. Unik LMS is designed for colleges, schools, tutoring companies, teachers, and corporates to ensure a smooth and seamless teaching experience for entire classrooms, small groups, or individual students having special needs.

Unik comes with multiple security encryption layers, ensuring that your data can be accessed only by the right individuals. In addition, it offers several innovative features that enhance online learning experiences and makes way for better planning and analysis. This cloud-based LMS can run smoothly on any standard browser and is compatible with mobile devices, facilitating easy access and effortless learning.

Unik is designed to help administrators access, update and manage information from anywhere and offers customized access for each user type. For example, it allows teachers/trainers to create grades, courses, lesson plans, and assignments and easily adds trainees/students. The platform also offers teachers a dedicated dashboard to assess each candidate’s growth and learning needs and upload notes, video, and audio files for better learning.

Unik allows automatic grading and evaluation of students/candidates and enables teachers/trainers to assign classwork/homework in a single click. It also supports online proctoring during examinations and offers automatic reminders for tests/assignments. What’s more, you can create corporate courses and generate certificates easily using Unik.

Unik enables teachers/trainers to create detailed lesson plans and share them instantly with their students, colleagues, or the entire organization/institution. In addition, the platform offers advanced API integration with your existing applications and has dedicated modules for managing/monitoring enrollments, teachers’ and students’ attendance, and billing information.

The application helps you deliver interactive teaching experiences via live online classes with advanced features such as breakout rooms, interactive whiteboards, screen sharing, chat, and annotations. Besides offering customized notifications via email, Unik also has provisions for scheduling assessments. In addition, it allows you to create custom widgets for each user role and helps you track each student’s progress individually through its rich drill-down options and custom reports.

Unik offers several pricing options (starting at just $49/month) to suit your organizational needs. Additionally, it offers features like voice synthesis, class audio, and video recordings. The application also has various advancements to smoothen communication between teachers and learners, making it useful for virtual learning.

Impressed already? We haven’t discussed Unik’s key features yet!

Key Features of Unik LMS

1. Live Online Classrooms

Unik helps you offer the best interactive classroom experience to students/trainees with advanced audio and video controls, chat options, and whiteboards. Unik’s classroom whiteboards can be used collaboratively and support mathematical equations, graphs, images, PPTs, and everything in between. Teachers can easily add students to live classrooms, and create schedules and lesson plans for user groups.

Unik allows students to choose the quality of video of their online classes, ensuring they can stay connected at limited internet bandwidth. However, if a student/trainee cannot attend a class/meeting, teachers can also share a lecture recording with them through the application, which students can download.

Unik’s ‘Breakout Rooms’ option within online classes allows you to create timed virtual rooms for student groups to complete assignments and discussions and raise hands for a teacher to visit. This simplifies group activities and discussions and helps create class activities for learners. Moreover, teachers can notify students about new classes, assessments, or schedules.

2. Online Assessments

Unik allows teachers to create online tests and assessments using simple steps. Teachers can add multiple types of questions (e.g., MCQs, fill-in-the-blanks, match the following, etc.) and choose between multiple grading systems. The assessments can be linked to specific classrooms or lesson plans and scheduled at the convenience of teachers or students.

Unik offers both automated and manual grading options. Unik’s powerful technology can help teachers automatically grade most questions and allows for a manual override by teachers as well. Teachers can also add comments and share feedback directly with learners. 

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Unik allows teachers to share assessments. Sharing an assessment creates a new copy of the examination, ensuring that changes in the shared version do not affect the original copy. The application also helps you share assessments with particular student groups, create personalized tests for each student, and select test duration accordingly. Additionally, teachers can allow extra time on assessments and end tests immediately if a candidate switches tabs.

3. Virtual Assignments

Unik allows you to assign classwork, homework, tests, documents, and links to students to work on. You can assign due dates for each task, view and evaluate submitted assignments, return them for rework or create reminders for students before submission due dates.

Unik also enables you to check each assignment's status and how far it has progressed. Additionally, you can check which students have submitted the assignments and decide if you want to allow a student to submit work after the deadline is over.

Unik helps students submit assignments with a single click. Moreover, teachers, students, and parents can view their candidates' progress from the progress tracker on their dedicated dashboards.

4. Lesson Plans

Unik allows you to easily create, modify, duplicate and lesson plans and assign them to student groups, classes, or subjects. Lesson plans can also be shared instantly with other teachers via the application. Further, they can activate or deactivate lesson plans/chapters as per their needs. It also helps you track syllabus completion with easy-to-grasp statuses described below.

Creating and activating lesson plans in Unik is very simple and hardly requires any training. From basic lesson plans to detailed curriculums with worksheets, notes, and teaching materials per session, everything can be created using Unik’s rich content editor.

5. Analytics Dashboard

Unik helps you access all information pertaining to classes, assessments, attendance, students, and their performance with a user-friendly dashboard. The information available on each dashboard can be drilled down for detailed analysis, and the same can be printed and shared using a single click. In addition, the dashboard allows teachers, administrators, students, and even their parents (configurable) to view upcoming classes, tests, and assignments.

With Unik, you can design user-specific widgets with different access types for different user groups. Further, the dashboard calendar allows you to search and filter results by grade, sections, subjects, teachers, and student names and analyze their progress from within the interface. This allows teachers/administrators to identify students who need additional support and the ideal type of support. 

6. Advanced Management Controls

Unik can easily integrate your institution’s website through APIs to manage enrollments effortlessly. It allows you to create and share invoices, view graphical representations of your business growth, and manage user access by roles. You can also get a real-time grade and attendance reports and share class note emails with candidates/parents if you like. 

Prepaze Invoicing is integrated into Unik for fee management features that help you monitor payments, track revenues, and set different fee plans. You can also set price breakdowns, set automated payment reminders, and set up multiple online payment methods. Unik also helps you instantly enroll students, assign courses, and view enrollment details for each student.

Unik offers different login and access rights for different user groups, ensuring that parents, students, and teachers view the application differently. It seamlessly tracks students’ and teachers’ attendance. Additionally, an admin can generate individual student reports with feedback and share the same with parents with their feedback/comments.

Our Final Verdict

Unik is a feature-packed, flexible, and user-friendly LMS that can accommodate the varying training needs of schools, institutions, universities, and corporates. It is highly secure and affordable and offers superior audio and video quality for online classes. The application is built with much thought and is equally beneficial for institutions/companies, teachers/trainers, and learners.

Unik has several attributes that make it a winner in technological innovation, ease of use, customizability, and control, making it an excellent choice for any organization or institution looking to offer a premium educational experience. Considering factors like automation, advanced visibility, superior control, and advanced teaching assistance it provides, we are inclined to give Unik a ‘Perfect Ten’ in our review, realizing its tremendous potential to transform online learning in the years to come.