PRODUCT ROADMAP Steven Threadgold - Head of Product Management, itslearning
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Inputs to the Roadmap Primary Research Analyst Reports & Industry Trends Customer Feedback & Usability Testing Secondary Research
What’s Most Important to Teachers in a Learning Platform? To do these tasks… …and use these tools and resources 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 52% 48% 47% 45% 44% 20% 10% 0% Administering in- Grading Communicating Communicating Administrating class assignments and broader individually with in-class assignments assessments annoucements to parents and assessments entire class or students parents
Delight teachers…by streamlining daily tasks with a world-class UX, seamless connections to cloud apps, and a universe of brilliant content Engage students…on their unique education journey with compelling resources and personal learning paths
Show teachers some Have customers love (even more) serious love those features they use every day Especially for Feature Teachers! Enhancements Feature Higher Additions Education Have entirely new reasons to Extend the love to Higher Education love itslearning customers
Especially for Feature Feature Higher Teachers Additions Enhancements Education • Seamless • Learning Paths • Shareable Test Tool • Course & Group Google/Microsoft (including Item Banks) Management Integration • Peer Assessment • 360o Reporting • Flexible ePortfolio • Easy-to-use Tools & • Standards-based (including Time on functionality Navigation Gradebook task) • Branding & • All-in-One Grading • Bigger & Better Terminology Tool Library • Mobile Engagement • Expanded Messaging with Parents & Capabilities Students
Seamless Google/Microsoft Integration Students submit assignments using Google/O365 Teachers “clone” assignments with template documents Single-sign on Create and manage Google and O365 documents across itslearning All-in-one grader works seamlessly on cloud doc assignments Teachers provide feedback in-progress feedback to students in cloud doc
Easy-to-use Tools & Navigation Stellar user experience improvements across the platform Consistent file handling and easy to reuse files across itslearning Easier browsing and searching Cleaner design, improved tool tips, and better in-product feedback (e.g. action EXAMPLE: Your Files confirmations)
All-in-One Grading Tool Assignment Feedback & Annotations Grades Easy Navigation
Mobile Engagement with Colleagues & Students • Most crucial information at first glance • Post important bulletins or update events on the go • Check off tasks wherever, whenever • Improved security (e.g. touch ID) itslearning app
Especially for Feature Teachers! Enhancements Feature Higher Additions Education
Learning Paths Teachers will be able to create customised learning experiences Successful learning paths can be reused Fosters flexible, self-paced student learning
Peer assessment Students can assess/review their peers through the assignment tool Create groups at random Students know who to assess and when
Standards-based Gradebook T212.3 T212.3 RA.33 Understanding Space Understanding Distance Unit Measurements Standards-based scales unique to your organisations For each learning objective teachers can record a standards-based score Combine individual learning objective scores into overall mastery
Especially for Feature Teachers! Enhancements Feature Higher Additions Education
QTI certified Shareable Test Tool Quicker, slicker, and 100% mobile Import 3rd party item banks Faster set-up of tests, easier to create questions Grab tests from library (school or whole site) Share questions with teachers in your university or the entire itslearning community
360o Reporting (including Time on task) Course comparison and deep dive for each student Time spent in courses Time spent on tasks
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Library Even Bigger Even Smarter Even Cooler
Expanded Messaging Capabilities Broadcast announcements to many users Better auditing of messages More options to control notifications
Especially for Feature Teachers! Enhancements Feature Higher Additions Education
Course and Group Management Better support for larger courses Combine participants and groups in one view Allow teachers to automatically create course groups (Random or with a max # of students)
Flexible ePortfolio functionality • A personal ePortfolio of student work and experiences is an important part of the lifelong learning process • Our portfolio will: Allow all work to be recorded in a student’s own personal portfolio Store outcomes from all our core tools Provide secure external access under school/organisation control Provide export capabilities for students to keep their portfolio into the future Better support for lifelong learning
Branding & Terminology UX tailored for higher education Institution-specific branding
Many other exciting changes are coming in 2018, including: • Updates to the design & organisation of the itslearning tools to make them easier to use • Improved ways for teachers and students to see what’s happening by date • Quick Create workflows for quick and easy content updates to Courses • “In-progress” access to student assignments for a sneak peek at unfinished work • Easier ways to see your user data in itslearning and manage it from one place • A continued focus on adding third party capabilities to the itslearning platform • Even more personalisation and customisation capabilities
Expected End 2017/Early 2018* Spring-Summer 2018 • Google Cloud Integration (Assignment Tool + SSO) • Microsoft365 Cloud Integration (Assignment Tool) • Peer Assessment • All-in-One Grading capability • Learning Paths • Global usability improvements across the platform • Shareable Test Tool • Global Search capabilities • 360o & Time-on-Task reports • Third Party Integrations • Branding & Terminology • Item Banks • Course & Group Management • Bigger & Better Library • In-progress Assignment Review • Cloud - Creating docs inside itslearning • Standards-based Gradebook • Flexible ePortfolio • Quick Create workflows • Library Personalization and Customization • GDPR – User Data Management updates *subject to change • Attendance
GPDR What is it? What is itslearning doing about GDPR? General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, is a regulation that will apply to all businesses that handle itslearning will be fully compliant with the regulation personal data of EU residents from 25th of May 2018. prior to May 25, 2018. Itslearning will give all our customers full confidence in our data handling processes and procedures: Why does it matter? As “controllers” (collectors) of personal data, • The right to be forgotten Educational Centers will have to be compliant with • The right to rectification the regulation. Controllers must: • The right to restriction of processing • The right to portability of data • Know how this data is used by third parties • Ensure that the data subject is aware about all the processing done with his data • Ensuring the security of this data • Being aware of all data processing activities
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