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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