This script allows you to have your own knowledgebase site but with a significant difference - your users are not confined to just text (let's face it, boring old text was so 1999), but now they can use audio and even video to provide their answers.
Features:
Video answers
The video module allows users to post their questions or answers as video content. Videos are useful for creative collaboration among community members. If community members can not meet in person, videos of meetings are invaluable for enhancing the interaction between community members.
This module comes with a handy flash player that can be embedded in your site to allow streaming of the audio without allowing downloads. Videos can even be captured by webcam and before saving that video the user can preview the video to make sure it's all good before sending it live. Also the video answer which is selected as best for a question will be shown randomly in the "Best Video Answers" block.
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Audio answers
The audio module allows users to post their questions or answers as audio content. Audio is an important medium for community communication and is proven to be much more effective than text - people just can't help but listen. The recent rise of the podcast phenomenon is an example of the trend towards audio content over text.
The audio module enables music, spoken word, and voicemail messages to be played on a site. The audio module allows a user to create a new audio post and upload the audio file to the website. This module comes with a handy flash player that can be embedded in your site to allow streaming of the audio without allowing downloads. Audio can be recorded by voice recorder and before sending it live, the user can preview the audio.
Rewarding
ANOVA users earn reputation points when they undertake any action on the website, such as 1. they post a question, 2. they post an answer, 3. their question rated by users and 4. Their answers are rated by other users. The reputation and points system is an effective way to keep people coming back to the site as they earn more and more points.
Home page customization
ANOVA users can control the homepage blocks (basically the content that is shown in different boxes) through the homepage block settings option in manage setting page. Here the user can show or hide a block whatever they want. Through this facility ANOVA users are able to customize their homepage to their own design and wishes.
User friendly admin interface
The overall content and control of the site is organized and managed by ten main menus. From here you can administrate the entire website from users to videos. You can change settings, delete users, moderate answers add categories - basically everything you need to do to run a successful knowledge website.
Modules customization
An Anova admin user can customize each of the modules of ANOVA. The admin user can enable or disable the site modules such as Registration, forum, blog and Internal mail modules.
Expand/Collapse contents in blog/forum
ANOVA users are allowed to expand or collapse the contents of forum and blog posts. This is great when there long lists with a lot of content, the expand and collapse function lets users navigate to areas of the website without being impeded by unnecessary information.
Tag Clouds
ANOVA displays the keywords or terms associated with the particular questions or answers as tags, thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification and search of information.
Profile Avatar
Anova enables the users to display their digital representation as Avatar. The members can able to manage their avatar at any time.
RSS Feeds
Anova enables the user to publish frequently updated content such as Popular Blogs and Forums and Recent Questions and Answers.
