All CML products acquired or designed should have a Web
interface. Standards for this interface are covered in
other standards areas, in particular those for Groupware
and for Internet.
A significant subset of CML functionality is required
over low capacity channels, e.g., links to rural and
remote areas.
Management of individual (self-paced) learners is
required, as distinct from management of a
‘class’.
Students should be able to access their own data, which
must be secure. A policy decision is required to achieve
this.
All CML products purchase should store data in a manner
that is recoverable and transportable between systems.
be able to automatically sort incoming emails
into user-defined mailboxes based on each email's
headers.
be able to sort mailboxes, by such attributes as
date, author and subject, and to be able to
search for words in these fields and in the
bodies of all emails in a mailbox.
default to using internal editors, rather than
external ones such as word-processing programs.
be capable of viewing and printing received
messages and editing messages to be sent, using a
fixed width font.
be capable of defining local address lists, to
make it easy to send an email to a user-defined
group of people.
Email clients or systems should, if possible, be
configured to enable senders to have their lines
automatically wrapped on screen as they write to a 70
character limit, and for the message to be sent exactly
as it appears.
Directories of contact data should be available in an
LDAP compliant format structured to facilitate browsing
by LDAP compliant email clients, for the purpose of
finding email addresses and other contact data for VET
staff.
Information on configuring email clients to support VET
standards and operational guidelines should be readily
available on web sites.
Web page development should be based on users accessing
the site with the latest non-beta release of the major
browsers and the previous version, taking into account
bandwidth limitations and the needs of learners with
disabilities.
Audio protocols should work with the two major browsers
or with plug-ins which are available for both of them.