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Classes began at the College of Court Reporting (CCR) in September 1984. The college was granted authorization by the Indiana Board for Proprietary Education (BPE) on January 1, 1985. It was granted approval to award an Associate of Applied Science degree in Court Reporting by the same board on August 14, 1985. The school was incorporated by the State of Indiana September 3, 1985. Kay Moody is founder; Jeff Moody, the corporation president and owner.

The College of Court reporting (CCR) begins offering its court reporting program online. CCR uses the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) offered by Stenograph University Online (SOU). As the online program evolves, CCR starts seeking a LMS that can provide a more effective delivery of court reporting courses in an online environment.

CCR makes a considerable investment and purchases an unlimited seat perpetual license with Elluminate Live!. Elluminate Live! provided faculty, staff, and students a platform to meet in a live online environment. All interaction with students relating to their court reporting education was through Elluminate Live!.

CCR realizes a more robust approach is needed for the delivery of asynchronous resources for CCR’s unique approach and philosophy to teaching court reporting online. CCR puts together a team of faculty, staff, and students to begin researching and developing its own online learning technologies.

During the 2008 NCRA National Convention and Exhibition, team members meet with other technology providers familiar with court reporting education in order to research a more efficient way of grading dictation tests submitted by students through the SUO LMS.

Following the convention, CCR learns that the technology they seek to efficiently grade court reporting skill-development dictation tests did not exist but could be developed as a subscription-based, web-based, or web-based tool. In an effort to keep costs down for students, CCR chooses to hire its own software development team.

By November, the development team creates a PC-installed software program named the “Court Reporting Instructor” (CRI) for faculty and staff. This software is not a web-based tool, and it is not part of any learning system. The CRI document compare logic is written from scratch and consists of a unique approach by comparing word groups in the student’s text file against word groups in the master text file and then providing the instructor a preliminary graded result.

Faculty manually download the student’s text file from the LMS assignment feature to their personal computer and manually load it into the CRI to complete the grading process. The grading logic is not a word-by-word or character-by-character logic, both providing a less accurate grading result. The proprietary word grouping methodology provides a more accurate grading result that simulates how our faculty manually grade submitted dictation tests and uses a basic document compare logic similar to what is publicly available in word processing software programs such as Microsoft Word.

As faculty begin using the CRI to grade tests, CCR continues to use the SOU LMS for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses and instructional resources.
Additional software functionality permits instructors to email the graded result to students, mark dictation materials in word count or syllabic count, and create lesson plans for live speedbuilding dictation classes.

• In September, CCR begins researching other learning platforms to replace the SUO Blackboard LMS in order to lower students’ education costs.  In addition, the CCR team begins developing a whole new approach to software-based speedbuilding and testing. The 1-minute approach to building speed, self-evaluation, and Success As you Progress (SAP) testing was the brainchild of Ms. Diane Harre, speedbuilding instructor at CCR.
• This unique approach requires the team to create software that would permit students to build custom speedbuilding classes, self-evaluation transcriptions, and provide access to SAP tests.
• Assets are allocated for a long-term commitment to develop proprietary content for building speed and self-evaluating, and testing in addition to building a library of over 7500 audio tests. 

CCR’s development team begins converting parts of the CRI into HTML web pages that could be displayed in a Moodle open source LMS. The HTML pages are presented using a core Moodle activity resource, giving the appearance that the CRI is actually part of the LMS. The first set of HTML pages consists of a user driven application for testing and a unique application that is able to create a structured speedbuilding dictation class following a structured lesson plan. The developed technologies are named EV360. The EV360 brand stands for 360 degrees of evaluation, following the CCR philosophy of always involving qualified faculty to use advanced technologies in order to interact with students in an online learning environment.

CCR launches a free pilot program with enrolled students from June to September. CCR officially leaves the Blackboard SOU LMS and moves to the Moodle LMS for all students in October.

From October 2010 through 2013, the CRI HTML IFrame pages are visible through the Moodle LMS, but they were not integrated into the Moodle core as activity modules or plug-ins. The CRI IFrame pages do not adapt to facilitate the users’ access to educational content; they are completely user-driven and are not driven from a Web-based navigation engine.

In August, for a variety of technical reasons related to browser and Java incompatibilities, the development team ceases developing the web CRI HTML IFrame pages. Instead, they begin developing from scratch a completely new installable suite of software programs called the EV360 Ultimate Suite.

Beta testing of the Ultimate Suite of software programs begins in June of 2014 and goes live in October of 2014.

CCR switches to the latest version of the Moodle LMS and Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. The Moodle LMS is used for all curriculum courses and Blackboard Collaborate Ultra for live lecture classes and live dictation speedbuilding classes. Both Moodle and Ultra are technologies that run independent of the EV360 Ultimate Suite of software programs.

The EV360 Ultimate software installs and runs locally on a computer with the latest Windows operating system.  The software does not operate on the Internet within a web-based learning system, and does not require the use of a web browser. The software is user-driven and does not adapt to facilitate the users’ access to educational content from a web-based navigation engine.

EV360 Ultimate evolves into a full-blown suite of individual software programs allowing individual users, court reporting programs, and corporate training programs to develop skills to advance in speed to pass tests, develop skills to advance in realtime accuracy, evaluate and test transcription and realtime skills, and more. The amount of content and approaches to develop skills is almost endless. CCR is proud that it provides its enrolled students free access and alumni lifetime access for free.

Working Together, we’ll transform court reporting education. EV360 Educational Solutions is set to provide resources to help colleges, schools, programs, firms, and individuals further their vision by expanding market reach, supporting students and faculty, and providing exceptional learning platforms, resources, and experiences.