Date post: | 14-Nov-2014 |
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itslearning Product Roadmap
How do we decide the direction?
• 400 ideas per week from our users
• Dialogue with customers
• Built on proven practice
• National guidelines in the UK, US, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France and Netherlands
Focus areas 2011-2012
PLAN
ENGAGE
TEACHASSESS
REFLECT
REPORT
LEARNING
Learning processes
Visualise learning
Visualise teaching
Reporting
Course enhancements
Attendance/behaviour/assessment
Digital content and apps
Visualise learning
Aggregated student profile
ILP improvements and workflow
Formative assessment
Enhance Progress report 2.0
Self-assessment
Gradebook enhancements
New tool: Skill mapping
Gradebook enhancements
• Categories for grade book elements
• Improved weighting and average calculations
• General improvements
Criteria-based assessment
Improved learning objective repository
Learning objective assessment
Rubric library
Assessment rubrics
Course enhancements
• Target groups, sequencing and registration
• Course “project workspaces”
• Assignment Model answer
• Assignment history
• Course copy & metadata
• News attachments & access control
Registrations
• Organize registrations (i.e. field trips, sports day, oral exams, choice assignments, …)
• Automatically manage available seats
• Easily send messages - i.e. reminders - to students
• Unlock resources and elements based on choices made
Visualise learning
Parent portal 2.0
New content block: ‘new since last time’
New tool: Deadline planner
New tool: Reporting module
Planner 2.0
Calendar 2.0
Calendar 2.0
• Time schedule & import
• Activity invitations
• Resource booking
• Events & registrations
• New views & content blocks
Planner 2.0
• Integrated with time schedule
• Access control
• Templates
• Batch editing & usability enhancements
• New content blocks & aggregated views
• Archiving
• Better support for printing the planner
Parent portal
Dashboard for each child
Available information is selected on organisation level
Launched in 2010
In a survey among 5800 teachers:
44% said they would like to communicate with parents more, but don’t have a communication channel
71% said they felt a parent portal can improve the parent-teacher communication
What’s new in the parent portal?
Parent-teacher meetings
New content blocks:
Progression
News
Detailed information
Attendance
Behaviour
Assessment
New tool: Reporting module
Reporting for all stakeholders
Drill down and support for data analysis
Standard reports
Custom reports
Attendance, Behaviour & Assessment
New roles (attendance teams)
Improved follow up & reporting
Template letters improvements
Digital content and apps
Improved SCORM playing and uploading
Tests in the library
Easier and improved file uploading
Improvements to video uploading and playing
Apps:
Easier to find apps and extensions
Many new apps
New app types: “module extension” and personal Rest API
Extensions
New app vendors
Tests in library
Aggregated statistics
Sharing and Reuse
Test Mode browser
Students cannot:
• Open other websites
• Open other applications
• Communicate with others
• Access files on their computer, internet or other places in itslearning
Personal API and Mobile Devices
• Personal API
- Access to personal data through API
- Users can grant / revoke access to their own data
• Support smart phones and mobile devices through web app:
- Messages
- Task list
- Course List
- News
- Calendar
New interface
New interface•Improved top menu
•Collapsable top- and tree menu
•Drag and drop in folders
•Adapts to different screen resolutions
•Cleaner and more intuitive interface
New intermediate skin
Integration Toolkits
• Fully documented, itslearning SSO system. • itslearning as both an Identity and Service Provider.• Local teams can develop modules for specific SSO systems and add to itslearning outside release cycle.
SSO Toolkit
• Well documented API that allows data import from 3rd parties.• Initial use by Infostance and Teletop migration, but generic and available for other migrations.
MigrationAPI
• Bring the power and flexibility of the IMS-E import to local control. • Interface for country service teams to implement.
IMS-EToolkit
• Industry standard enterprise interface for 3rd party vendors to use.• Partner documentation on all IMS-ES services.• Extensions for parent/child relationships
IMS-ESToolkit
• Export of Assessment, Attendance and Behaviour.• Flexible XML export formats, with control at the county level.• Set-up export tasks, or run one-off exports.
Export Toolkit
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