1.
itslearning Product Roadmap

2.
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

3.
Focus areas 2011-2012
 Learning processes
 Visualise learning
REPORT PLAN
 Visualise teaching
 Reporting
REFLECT LEARNING ENGAGE
 Course enhancements
 Attendance/behaviour/ ASSESS TEACH
assessment
 Digital content and apps

4.
Visualise learning
 Aggregated student profile
 ILP improvements and workflow
 Formative assessment
 Enhance Progress report 2.0
 Self-assessment
 Gradebook enhancements
 New tool: Skill mapping

5.
Gradebook enhancements
• Categories for grade book
elements
• Improved weighting and
average calculations
• General improvements

6.
Criteria-based assessment
 Improved learning
objective repository
 Learning objective
assessment
 Rubric library
 Assessment rubrics

7.
Course enhancements
• Target groups, sequencing and registration
• Course “project workspaces”
• Assignment Model answer
• Assignment history
• Course copy & metadata
• News attachments & access control

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Calendar 2.0
• Time schedule & import
• Activity invitations
• Resource booking
• Events & registrations
• New views & content
blocks

11.
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

12.
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

13.
What’s new in the parent portal?
 Parent-teacher meetings
 New content blocks:
 Progression
 News
 Detailed information
 Attendance
 Behaviour
 Assessment

14.
New tool: Reporting module
 Reporting for all stakeholders
 Drill down and support for data
analysis
 Standard reports
 Custom reports

15.
Attendance, Behaviour & Assessment
 New roles
(attendance teams)
 Improved follow up &
reporting
 Template letters
improvements

16.
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

17.
Extensions

18.
New app vendors

19.
Tests in library
 Sharing and Reuse  Aggregated statistics

20.
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

21.
Personal API and Mobile Devices
• Support smart phones • Personal API
and mobile devices
through web app: - Access to personal data
through API
- Messages
- Users can grant / revoke
- Task list access to their own data
- Course List
- News
- Calendar

22.
New interface

23.
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

24.
New intermediate skin

25.
Integration Toolkits
• Industry standard enterprise interface for 3rd party vendors to use.
IMS-ES • Partner documentation on all IMS-ES services.
Toolkit • Extensions for parent/child relationships
• Export of Assessment, Attendance and Behaviour.
Export • Flexible XML export formats, with control at the county level.
Toolkit • Set-up export tasks, or run one-off exports.
• Fully documented, itslearning SSO system.
SSO • itslearning as both an Identity and Service Provider.
Toolkit • Local teams can develop modules for specific SSO systems and
add to itslearning outside release cycle.
• Well documented API that allows data import from 3rd parties.
Migration • Initial use by Infostance and Teletop migration, but generic and
API available for other migrations.
• Bring the power and flexibility of the IMS-E import to local control.
IMS-E • Interface for country service teams to implement.
Toolkit

26.
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