Road Map 2010

Product vision

Product Strategy – focus areas

•Focus on the individual learner

•The platform as a ecosystem for digital content and tools

•Collaboration and sharing across sites

•Aggregating data and introducing new roles (parents, principal, mentor)

•Strengthen support for core workflow in schools

Some headlines from our roadmap

School autonomy

•Allow sites to have autonomous hierarchies for schools

•All courses, projects, users, mentors, exams will be owned by a hierarchy.

•Administrators can only see and manage users, courses, projects, mentors, exams from their school/faculty hierarchy

•New features such as attendance, policies etc. can be customised at a school levels.

eSafety & communication levels

•Ensure a safe environment for learners

•Control who can see specific profiles

•Control who can communicate with who

•Profanity filtering and bullying protection

Policies

•A better way to edit permissions

•Can be applied to users, hierarchies, and profiles

•Several policies may be combined

Communication restrictions

No comm.

Attendance 2.0

•Dynamic codes

•Multi-session

•Workflow support

•Teacher, mentor and student reports and overview

•Improved UI

Parent Engagement Dashboard

•Home–School communication

•Information about children's work, development and presence

•eSafety – restricting parent access

•Supporting national guidelines for parents involvement

National guidelines

Norway: UtdanningsdirektoratetDatatilsynetUninett ABC

UK:Department for children, schools and familiesBecta

Sweden: Skolverket

USA: U.S. Department of Education

Parent engagement dashboard

Themes & new GUI

•New GUI without frames

•Easy to develop themes

•All skins will be migrated to themes

•A site can have several themes

•Users can choose their own themes

Search, personal tags and notes

Global performance

•Client response time monitoring

•Global cache network

•Optimising the application for global usages

SCORM

•Improved reporting (score and participant list)

•it’s learning navigation (expanding content)

Sharepoint 2007

•Take ownership

•Demo environment

Sequencing

Sharing

•Simple and user-friendly solution for sharing content

•Private library for organising personal content

•Share with: private individuals (later)

own institution (February 2010)all it’s learning users (February 2010)

(Not all applications can be used for sharing when we release)

Library

Find and add content

Dashboards release and new content block: notifications

Extensions / SDK•Contains the same APIs and tools we use

internally

•Distribution solution for free and commercial extensions integrated in it’s learning

•Application SDK beta released in June 2009 – currently more than 300 developers have signed up

•Developer program for partners and customers

•Interested? Visit: developer.itslearning.com

SDK and application distribution

Extension: Applications

Extension: Applications

Extension: Applications

Extension: Plugins

Extension: Search provider

•Federated search

•Resource types:

- Embed multimedia

- Links

Extension: Search provider

Integrations

Current release planRelease Major news

January 2010 Esafety & policiesScormGlobal performance (CDN)SDK/Extensions: plugins

January 2010 Dashboard releaseTerm managementAttendanceGlobal performance (no frames)School autonomy

January 2010 ParentsSharing & LibraryExtensions from 3rd partiesAttendance exports New GUI ... and more