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EQUELLA Product Strategy and DevelopmentSimon WilkinsonDirector of Product [email protected]
Jennifer SeidenwurmProduct [email protected]
Cath FitzgeraldProduct [email protected]
NAVIGATE 2013 - Product Strategy Presentation 1
Agenda
Product Direction
Demo EQUELLA 6.1
Product Initiatives
Product Direction Overview
Product DirectionOverview
Product Direction
Product Themes
Standards Support
Learning Tools Interoperability Standard
• LTI provider 1.1 (EQUELLA 6.1)
• LTI consumer compliant 1.1 (EQUELLA 6.2)
• Utilising LIS standard for grade book integration (EQUELLA 6.2)
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Product Themes
Product Direction
CORE Application
features
● Metadata Utility – now provides users with the ability to bulk modify the metadata of resources in EQUELLA (EQUELLA 6.1)
● User experience (UX) (All releases)
● Access controls – We can now generate permissions dynamically from Metadata in the system based on user/group/role (EQUELLA 6.1)
Product Themes
Product Direction
CORE Application
features
• We now support additional metadata harvesting standards – SHEX/MEX – Sharing Exchange and Metadata Exchange (EQUELLA 6.1)
• Searching – We have added features to improve the power of our searching and the usability of the management of results (EQUELLA 6.2)
Product Themes
Product Direction
CORE Application
features
We are looking at improving the reporting functionality of our application:
• SEER integration
• Reporting APIs
• Separate reporting Database
Product Themes
Product Direction
Integration Support
We have a new integration experience that currently works on Moodle, Blackboard and Fronter (EQUELLA 6.1). We are looking to extend the supported (and tested) list LMS vendors. It includes:
• DnD functionality
• Less clicks
Product Themes
Product Direction
Integration Support
● We now have a plug-in framework for including additional plug-ins into TinyMCE (EQUELLA 6.1).
Product Themes
Product Direction
Integration Support
Support for Echo360 – Lecture capture solution (EQUELLA 6.1)
• “Echos” are contributed automatically to EQUELLA.
• “Echos” are tagged with metadata and linked back to the Echo360 platform
Product Themes
Product Direction
Interactive Assessment
We are looking at including support for interactive assessments (EQUELLA 6.2):
• Question and Test Interoperability (QTI 2.x)
• SCORM tracking – Integration with Icodeon
• Grade book integration
Product Themes
Product Direction
REST Services
In order to continue to extend EQUELLA and allow for rich integrations with third party tools and applications we see the continued extension of our services framework (REST) as being crucial to this success.
● Administration APIs
● User Experience APIs
● Reporting APIs
Product Themes
Product Direction
Client Java Support
● The Removal of Java will dovetail with the extension of our REST services to allow for an Administration console to be rebuilt in EQUELLA.
● We have already started to move functionality away from Java by implementing HTML5 replacements for some of the key controls.
● This is inline with our mobile strategy and our general move to reduce technical overhead.
EQUELLA 6.1 User Experience (UX) enhancements
● General UX enhancements
○ View attachments from the search results page
○ View thumbnails from results/summary pages
○ Bulk clear notifications
○ Multiple file drag and drop functionality in the file uploader
○ Floating Save button and components in the contribution
wizard
○ Full-width portlets
○ Group and role selector wizard controls
○ Previous and Next buttons on Resource summary page
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EQUELLA 6.1 User Experience (UX) enhancements
● HTML Editor
○ Third party plug-in ready – tested and certified with:
■ After the deadline
■ ICE
■ WIRIS
○ Additional options for HTML Editor configuration:
■ Perform advanced editor customisations
■ Edit the CSS file to add styles to the HTML Editor
■ Add or remove buttons from the HTML Editor toolbar
EQUELLA 6.1 Core enhancements
● Bulk metadata management
○ Find and replace
○ Set text
○ Add node
○ Execute script
● Comment identity options
○ Configure the identity shown when comments are added
● Dynamic metadata ACLs
○ Enable the creation of permissions dynamically, based on User, Group or Role Ids stored in the resource metadata
● HTML5 Player
EQUELLA 6.1 Integration enhancements● Echo360 integration
○ Directly publish Echos into EQUELLA
● Harvester enhancements
○ SHEX (Sharing Exchange) and MEX (Metadata Exchange)
○ Ability to select source update behaviour
● LMS integration screen
○ Drag and drop capability
○ Ability to view and select attachments from the results page
○ Browse capability
○ Ability to add resources to multiple course sections in one selection session
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Customer engagement initiatives
The EQUELLA Product team is seeking to engage more effectively with our clients and partners. Some of our initiatives are:
● yourEQUELLA - the website that allows clients and partners to enter, vote and comment on feature requests.
● Focus groups - topic-specific forums for both consultants and clients to discuss their requirements, and contribute ideas for EQUELLA’s future direction.
● Beta program - enables our users to test and provide feedback on features prior to release.
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Product Group initiatives yourEQUELLA
● Launched March 2013
● 91 client registrations
● 198 feature requests
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Product Group initiatives Focus groups
● Ongoing Customer Engagement Initiative
● Feedback will help us prioritise features for future releases
● Consultants and Clients - All Regions
● First series - 6 topics:
○ Workflow
○ Reporting
○ Assessment
○ Integration
○ Copyright/CAL/Licensing
○ Content Exchange
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Product Group initiatives Beta program
6.0 Beta - 35 Signups, 10 Participants
○ 8 clients (7 from Australia, 1 from NA)
○ 2 EQUELLA consultants (1 from Australia, 1 from NA)
6.1 Beta - 32 Signups○ Phase 1: 16 Participants
● 9 clients (6 from Australia, 3 from NA), ● 7 consultants (6 from NA, 1 from Australia)
○ Phase 2: 11 Participants● 6 Clients (4 from Australia, 2 from NA)● 5 Consultants (all from NA)
6.2 Beta - Coming Soon!
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