Educational software company Digication Inc. this week unveiled its Digication Admin Tool, designed to help schools manage the company’s Web-based learning, collaboration and portfolio software.

Digication Campus, a Web environment where teachers can post assignments, record grades and archive lessons, and an entire class can share ideas, was officially launched in August. It was followed by Digication Spotlight, a hosted service on which students can develop portfolios that may include music, images and text. The two packages can be used together or separately.

The new Admin Tool makes it easier for a school to customize and manage its Digication learning community – for instance, by linking user sign-up to existing student databases. It allows administrators to import data, review the site’s usage, control what users are allowed to do, and determine what information is available to individuals, small groups, a given class, the entire school, or even the outside world.