201303 itslearning productroadmap

Product Roadmap

March 2013

Our Mission and Strategy

Our missionTo help teachers and learners support, improve and transform their teaching and learning processes

Our Product Strategy

•Support teaching processes

•Great user experience

•Open platform

itslearning

We focus on the majority

Recent updates

Improved Course Planner

•Table view with markup, now available for students too

•Enhanced presentation of resources, activities and learning objectives

•Easily copy (parts of) the plan to another course

•Disable default columns you will not use

Standards and Learning Objectives

•New, up-to-date repository of learning objectives

•Improved presentation of learning objectives in itslearning

•Improved management of learning objectives

•Teachers get informed when repository is updated

ILP enhancements

•Teacher access from Status and follow-up

•Mentor can choose to hide columns for teachers

•Improved user experience when creating or editing ILPs

3rd party apps can now be visible in the:

•Top menu

•ePortfolio

•Administration menu

•Status and Follow Menu

•Supervisor Menu

Modules: Your App anywhere in itslearning

Simple Resource Booking

•Create and Manage Resources for your organizations and users

•Reserve Available Resources through Calendar Events

New Vocabulary Building Tools

Enhanced assessment record

•The assessment overview is improved to make it easier to read

- Fixed column size

- Overall/final grade moved to the 1.column

- New informative tooltip

- New sorting capabilities

- Search function to easily find participants

Enhanced assessment record

• Score is introduced as a grading option

• Improved display of average

- Average information in a separate tab

- Course average is introduced on assessments

• New improved layout for one student view

Data visualizationStandard reports

•Assessment trends

•Storage distribution

Add-on reports

•Site statistics

What’s coming next?

Learning objectives assessment

•Define achievement levels on which learning objectives can be demonstrated

•Add assessment criteria to learning objectives

•Assess assignments with assessment rubrics

Further planner improvements

•Easily create elements of all types directly from the planner

•See all your current plans in an aggregated view

• Improved date selection for planner lessons

Course Copy and Templates

•Create and share Course Templates - and use these when creating new courses

•More options when copying courses, including learning objectives, planner, resources, activities and grade book setup.

New File Uploader

•Drag and Drop from your computer!

•Progress Bar for Uploads

•Support for multi-file upload

Better Options for Content Sharing

•More Metadata when Sharing Content

•Share Files, Resources and Links in My Library

•Search for content based on learning objectives

Put itslearning at the heart of your integrated systems using a standards-led API for organisation-level data exchange.

More options for sharing data in a secure, safe way.

Organisation API

Roadmap:

Where are we going in the next 12-24 months?

• We’re working towards a great experience on any screen size and any device

• We’re redesigning to make content available in the best possible way

• The layout will adapt to changes in the screen size: responsive design

One Web – Responsive Design

Content Recommendation Engine

New tool for assisting teachers in finding content that can be used as remedial work for students

Content is suggested based on a combination of standards-based metadata and student standard mastery

Learning Triggers

Teachers can set-up simple “Learning Paths” through itslearning content through a rule-based system

Support both remedial and advanced materials to be released to learners dependent on their achievements in previous course assessments

Question Banks

The test tool will be extended with the option of tagging individual questions with learning objectives

Questions can be shared and re-used by colleagues – or other itslearning users

A search will allow teachers to find shared questions through keywords or learning objectives

Tests can be quickly created from the shared question bank!

A personal API to expand your possibilities

Web apps Native apps (iOS, Android) Third-party services

Personal API

Fully documented itslearning SSO system, where itslearning can act as both identity provider and service provider

SSO Toolkit

High contrast theme

• New and open APIs

• New interoperability toolkits

• Partner collaboration

• App library

Open platform

App suppliers

Visualisation and clarity of decision making

Springboard to knowledge

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