trm

TRM, technical reference model, refers to technologies that included in the UNC Charlotte ITS Technology Inventory.

Respondus Lockdown Browser

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Assessment & Tutorials

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Availability: Labs
Comparable:

Respondus Lockdown Browser is a special type of downloadable browser that locks down online testing environments. The browser works with Blackboard, ANGEL, Desire2Learn, Canvas, Moodle, and Sakai. When a user activates Respondus Lockdown Browser it locks the page by disabling the ability to use print, copy, go to another URL, or other applications. Users are locked in the browser until they submit an assignment for grading. The browser is available for Windows and Mac devices.

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Origin Pro

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & ModelingDesign & Visualization
Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable: Excel

Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It has inspired several platform-independent open-source clones like QtiPlot or SciDAVis.

Graphing support in Origin includes various 2D/3D plot types.  Data analyses in Origin include statistics, signal processing, curve fitting and peak analysis. Origin’s curve fitting is performed by the nonlinear least squares fitter which is based on the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm.

Origin is primarily a GUI (Graphical User Interface) software with a spreadsheet front end. Unlike popular spreadsheets like Excel, Origin’s worksheet is column oriented. Each column has associated attributes like name, units and other user definable labels. Instead of cell formula, Origin uses column formula for calculations.

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Pasco Data Studio

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling
Availability: Labs  |  Discontinued
Comparable: PASCO Capstone

PASCO Data Studio is a powerful, easy-to-use data collection and analysis software that works with ALL PASCO interfaces. It is the premier data acquisition, display and analysis software for high school and university sciences.

*Note:  PASCO Data Studio is being transitioned to PASCO Capstone.  Development on PASCO Data Studio has ceased and it does not support Windows 8.

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