Frequently Asked Questions

What is NaMaYa?

NaMaYa is the online education starting point!

It utilizes 21st century technology and processes to revolutionize the education worldwide.

NaMaYa is a US based corporation founded in 2007. The company has offices in NYC and Israel as well as development teams in India and Eastern Europe. Our vision is to make the best online content available to anyone that is connected to the Internet, while offering the best most advanced education infrastructure and social community.

Who can benefit from it?

Pretty much anyone that is involved in education.

  • Schools can get the best technology platform hosted on the cloud to impact its student’s education.
  • Teachers could teach, create content, easily find education material on the web, give homework and do everything they need in one integrated system.
  • Students can easily find and consume the best available education connect.
  • Parents can learn themselves or monitor their kid’s progress. They could communicate with teachers or other parents in their area.
  • Content providers can easily offer their content into the NaMaYa Education Marketplace.
  • Benefactors can contribute funds to schools teachers or to achieve a personal education goal on NaMaYa.

How much does it cost?

For the most part NaMaYa is free. Teachers, Students and Parents can get access to our system for free. In case teachers create their own content and flow- that’s free too. Schools may purchase a branded environment of NaMaYa and pay fixed monthly fees to have a complete online infrastructure. Some of the content costs money too – the relevant prices are in the sole control of the content owner.

What are the main functionalities in the site?

With NaMaYa you can get:

  • Complete hosted LMS system
  • Wide variety of top quality content
  • Complete social education network functionality
  • Education SearchTM - for both educators and students
  • Benefactor program to allow individual/organization contribution to teachers/schools or individuals
  • And much more…

What kind of content can you find on NaMaYa?

NaMaYa offers all kinds of content. Free sources from Open Coarse Ware and paid courses from leading content providers. Our content can be audio, video, document or combination thereof. As we are trying to be the education starting point NaMaYa is offering a wide variety content that addresses many types of audiences. From K-12 courses in Math, Science or English to University level Philosophy or Economics. Our content database is being updated daily so if you can’t seem to find what you are looking for, try again a bit later or contact us and we will make sure we locate the right content for you.

What kind of content you can create on NaMaYa?

All types of educational content can be created at NaMaYa. Be it courses, lessons and learning paths through to quizes using our unique quiz creator. Most media files are supported and uploading them into a school file libraray or to a course file library is childs play. Use your presentations or external flash movies. All can utilized to create and exciting learnign experience for your students.

How can you compare NaMaYa’s LMS to Moodle or other Blackboard?

The table below describes the main differences between NaMaYa and the other two leading Learning Management Systems:

 NaMaYaBlackboard Basic]Moodle
Extended group functionsYesYesYes
GradebookYesYesYes
SCORM playerYesNoYes
Export / Import courses incl. quizzesYesYesNo
Learning pathsYesNoYes
CEO/Parent accessYesNoNo
PriceGet Started for Free!Starting at 7500 dollarsFree
Homework controlYesNoNo
Advanced quizzesYesNoNo
Advanced subscriptionsYesNoNo
Advanced quiz poolYesNoNo
Teacher Course AuthoringYesYesYes
Course certificatesYesNoYes
Backup toolYesNoNo
Tracking of studentsYesPartialPartial

Why is it deployed on the Cloud?