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P R O D U C T R O A D M A P
Inputs to the Roadmap
Primary Research
Customer Feedback & Usability Testing
Analyst Reports & Industry Trends
Secondary Research
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Administering in-class
assignments
Gradingassignments and
assessments
Communicatingbroader
annoucements toentire class or
parents
Communicatingindividually with
parents andstudents
Administratingin-class
assessments
What’s Most Important to Teachers in a Learning Platform?
To do these tasks… …and use these tools and resources
• Goals
Delight Teachers Involve Parents
Engage Students
Our Focus
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
Involve parents…by connecting them to information about their children’s progress with a purpose-built app
Four ThemesRoadmap
Especially forTeachers!
FeatureAdditions
FeatureEnhancements
Higher Education
Show teachers some serious love
Extend the love to Higher Education customers
Have entirely new reasons to love itslearning
Have customers love (even more) those features they use every day
Especially for Teachers
• Seamless Google/Microsoft Integration
• Easy-to-use Tools & Navigation
• All-in-One Grading Tool
• Mobile Engagement with Parents & Students
Feature Additions
• Learning Paths
• Peer Assessment
• Standards-based Gradebook
Feature Enhancements
• Shareable Test Tool (including Item Banks)
• 360o Reporting (including Time on task)
• Bigger & Better Library
• Expanded Messaging Capabilities
Higher Education
• Course & Group Management
• Flexible ePortfoliofunctionality
• Branding & Terminology
Especially forTeachers!
FeatureAdditions
FeatureEnhancements
Higher Education
Seamless Google/Microsoft IntegrationStudents 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 & NavigationStellar 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 confirmations) EXAMPLE: Your Files
Easy Navigation
Assignment
Feedback & Annotations
Grades
All-in-One Grading Tool
Mobile Engagement with Parents & 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
Mobile Engagement with Parents & Students• Purpose-built app for parents
• See child’s progress at a glance• Tasks, homework with due
date and completion status, plans and events
• Messaging for communication with teachers
Parent app
Especially forTeachers!
FeatureAdditions
FeatureEnhancements
Higher Education
Learning PathsTeachers will be able to create customized learning experiences
Successful learning paths can be reused
Fosters self-paced student learning
Peer assessment Students can assess/review their peers through assignment tool
Create groups at random
Students know who to assess and when
Standards-based Gradebook
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
T212.3Understanding Space
T212.3Understanding Distance
RA.33Unit Measurements
Especially forTeachers!
FeatureAdditions
FeatureEnhancements
Higher Education
Shareable Test ToolQuicker, 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 school or the itslearning community
QTIcertified
360o Reporting (including Time on task)Course comparison and deep dive for each student
Time spent in courses
Time spent on task
Menu
Library Even Bigger
Even Smarter
Even Cooler
Expanded Messaging Capabilities
Broadcast announcements to many usersBetter auditing of messagesMore options to control notifications
Especially forTeachers!
FeatureAdditions
FeatureEnhancements
Higher Education
Course and Group ManagementBetter 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 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 life long learning
Branding & TerminologyUX tailored for higher education
Institution-specificbranding
And many other exciting changes are coming in 2018, including:
• Updates to the design and organization of itslearning tools to make it 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
• Personalization and customization capabilities
*subject to change
• Google Cloud Integration (Assignment Tool + SSO)
• Parent App
• Learning Paths
• Shareable Test Tool
• 360o & Time-on-Task reports
• Branding & Terminology
• Course & Group Management
• Peer Assessment
• Microsoft365 Cloud Integration (Assignment Tool)
• All-in-One Grading capability
• Global usability improvements across the platform
• Global Search capabilities
• Third Party Integrations
• Item Banks
• 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
• Attendance
Expected End 2017/Early 2018* Spring-Summer 2018
T H A N K Y O U !
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Especially for Teachers
• Seamless Google/Microsoft Integration
• Easy-to-use Tools & Navigation
• All-in-One Grading Tool
• Mobile Engagement with Parents & Students
• Cahier de Textes
Feature Additions
• Learning Paths
• Peer Assessment
• Standards-based Gradebook
Feature Enhancements
• Shareable Test Tool (including Item Banks)
• 360o Reporting (including Time on task)
• Bigger & Better Library
• Expanded Messaging Capabilities
• GDPR Compliance
Higher Education
• Course & Group Management
• Flexible ePortfoliofunctionality
• Branding & Terminology
Norway
Especially for Teachers
• Seamless Google/Microsoft Integration
• Easy-to-use Tools & Navigation
• All-in-One Grading Tool
• Mobile Engagement with Parents & Students
• New Attendance System
Feature Additions
• Learning Paths
• Peer Assessment
• Standards-based Gradebook
Feature Enhancements
• Shareable Test Tool (including Item Banks)
• 360o Reporting (including Time on task)
• Bigger & Better Library
• Expanded Messaging Capabilities
• GDPR Compliance
Higher Education
• Course & Group Management
• Flexible ePortfoliofunctionality
• Branding & Terminology
New Attendance System• Total overhaul of our
existing attendance system
• Mobile friendly
• Much faster to record attendance
GPDR
What is it?
General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, is a regulation that will apply to all businesses that handle personal data of EU residents from 25th of May 2018.
Why does it matter?As “controllers” (collectors) of personal data,Educational Centers will have to be compliant withthe regulation. Controllers must:
• 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
What is itslearning doing about GDPR?
itslearning will be fully compliant with the regulationprior to May 25, 2018.
Itslearning will give all our customers full confidencein our data handling processes and procedures:
• The right to be forgotten• The right to rectification• The right to restriction of processing• The right to portability of data