Link-Systems International

When the leader drew or placed text, figures, or symbols, such as square-root and integral signs, on a virtual whiteboard, content would be simultaneously displayed on all users' screens.

LSI leased this interface, mainly to schools and textbook publishers, renaming the platform WorldWideWhiteboard in 2001, in order to distinguish it from its online tutoring service, which retained the NetTutor name.

Another distinction between NetTutor and other services is that a set of written guidelines is drawn up in consultation with client institutions and amended as needed.

The interface development environment of the WorldWideTestbank supports authors' programming in the platform's own scripting language and creates a "template" for each question.

IVS applies the alerts and notices features common in gradebook applications, but at an enterprise level and with user-definable dashboards.

For IVS, which bridges different databases in which an institution may hold its data to display interrelated events about a college campus as the events are occurring,[7] LSI collaborated with Mindshare, Inc. in nearby Clearwater, Florida, a company that already had developed analytics for the state of Florida;[8] MyAcademicWorkshop enables schools to place students into one of a number developmental math courses and provides content for these courses aligned to state or national standards.

[13] LSI, through its content conversion services and conferencing and tutoring tools, became an early partner to textbook publishers.

NetTutor has been packaged over the years with textbooks published by John Wiley and Sons, Pearson, Cengage Learning,[14] and Bedford-St. Martin's, an imprint of MacMillan.

LSI content authors have created material that appears in the homework systems associated with McGraw-Hill, Cengage Learning, MacMillan, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and in such tools as MyMathLab and WebAssign.

"[19] A study at Utah Valley University in 2006 pointed out the role of the WorldWideWhiteboard as "[o]ne of the earliest synchronous models for math tutoring]"[10]).

To answer this concern, LSI creates, jointly with its schools or publishers, a written set of guidelines called "Rules of Engagement" (ROE) that can be modified as needed.