CAMS Enterprise™ LMS for Covenant Theological wins IMS Global Learning Impact award

May 26, 2010 - PRLog -- St. Louis — Three Rivers Systems Inc., the only provider of Web-based campus administrative software systems exclusively for higher education, and Covenant Theological Seminary, in St. Louis, have won a prestigious Learning Impact Recognition award in the established initiatives category.  Presented by IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc., the award recognizes the school’s implementation of Three Rivers Systems’ CAMS Enterprise ™ Learning Management System for creation of an optimal learning environment.

IMS Global’s Learning Impact program recognizes outstanding applications of technology that take on the most significant challenges facing the global education and learning industries. Final judging took place May 18-20 in Long Beach, Calif. at the group’s annual three-day conference, Learning Impact.

As an entirely Web-based system that incorporates course management into a comprehensive academic enterprise resource planning — ERP — system with a single shared database, CAMS Enterprise breaks new ground in higher education administration. Course management is fully integrated with the CAMS student information system to make the administration of online courses quick and easy, and provide students with immediate access to courses when they register. It includes online testing, shared video lectures, electronic document exchange, grade book, automatic course evaluations and many other features.

CAMS provides unlimited Web-based access to students, faculty and staff. It extends the capabilities of course management delivery to make all aspects of student administration, including comprehensive online course delivery, fully accessible in real-time from any Web-browser.

CAMS Enterprise makes it simple for institutions to extend their learning opportunities significantly since the entire CAMS Enterprise system is 100 percent Web-based. Students and faculty around the world simply use a browser to access their courses. Since CAMS Enterprise is built with Microsoft’s Internet technologies, including SQL Server 2008, there are no limitations on the number of users that can access the system and no limit on how much it can grow.

To earn a finalist nomination, Covenant’s CAMS Enterprise implementation was required to meet several rigorous criteria. These include enabling lifelong learning and improved efficiency, achieving cost savings that are passed on to learners, supporting institution-wide usage, improving retention or graduation rates and much more.

About IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC)
IMS Global Learning is a nonprofit member organization that strives to enable the growth and impact of learning technology in higher education, K-12, and corporate education worldwide. IMS GLC members are leading corporations, higher education institutions, school districts and government organizations who are enabling the future of education by developing interoperability and adoption practice standards for educational and learning technology.  IMS GLC sponsors Learning Impact: a global program and conference that recognizes the impact of learning and educational technology on access, affordability, and quality – the world’s most significant educational challenges. For more information, visit www.imsglobal.org .

About Covenant Theological Seminary
For more than 50 years, Covenant Theological Seminary has been training servants of the triune God to walk in God’s grace, minister God's Word, and equip God's people — all for God’s mission. A distinctive emphasis on the transforming power of God's grace underlies and permeates every aspect of Covenant Seminary's mission, helping to make it one of America's fastest growing and most influential evangelical seminaries. Offering a variety of pastoral and ministry support degree programs as well as a wealth of free online courses and resources for believers around the world, the seminary is committed to equipping church leaders and those who serve beside them for fruitful service to Christ's Kingdom. Covenant Seminary is located in St. Louis and is the seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America.

About CAMS Enterprise
Developed from the ground up with Microsoft Internet technologies, CAMS Enterprise, is a highly scalable, comprehensive academic management system that is quick to implement and easy to use. CAMS Enterprise consolidates multiple stand-alone systems including admissions, student information, financial aid, student services, fiscal management with HR and payroll, fund-raising, alumni relations, document management, course management a full suite of portals, and more, into one solution that ensures administrators, staff, faculty and students all work with the most recent and most accurate information. By uniting administrative and academic management systems, CAMS Enterprise is the only totally Web-based, completely integrated solution for managing the entire student life-cycle.

About Three Rivers Systems Inc.
Three Rivers Systems Inc., the developer and service provider for CAMS, is headquartered in St. Louis and has been delivering innovative technology-driven solutions to the educational community for 25 years. The company has a large established client base throughout the U.S., and an international presence with clients in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.


Contact:  Ron Kalb, Three Rivers Systems Inc., Director of Communications, 636-779-1518 (office), 702-498-8916 (cell), ronk@threerivers-cams.com

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Three Rivers Systems Inc., the developer and service provider for CAMS has been delivering innovative technology-driven solutions to the educational community for 25 years. The company has a large established client base throughout the world..