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Release: v30 – Memphis Praxias Summer 2015 Edition The latest edition of the My Learning Suite was released on Monday July 6th 2015. This document explains some of the new features, changes and updates which comprise version 30 of the software.

No action was required, and the update was completed between 19:00 and 20:00 GMT. During that time, no services from My Learning were affected. This sub-release of My Learning has concentrated on delivering new usability features, additional tools and numerous updates at the direct request of our users.




Newly introduced features

15 New Languages added! My Learning has paid careful attention to additional users in Africa and the Far East, so in this edition (v30) we have added the following languages to use directly within the product: v28: Tajik, Khazak, Malagasy, Marathi, Malay, Chichewa, Sinhala, Slovene, Sesotho, Swahili and Uzbek. v29: Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kannada, Nepali and Punjabi v30: Bosnian, Cebuano, Hausa, Hmong, Haitian, Igbo, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Maori, Mongolian, Somali, Tagalog, Yoruba, Chinese (Traditional) and Zulu.

Remember that these languages are available in any layout for Students, Teachers and Parents and also operate on any device.

The Task Manager

Many of our users have been using “Homework Manager” for some years now. It’s a comprehensive and powerful method of issuing tracked work to students with the abilities for student feedback. However, sometimes it’s much quicker to just create a simple list of tasks for your students to work through and then monitor where they are. Our new Task Manager has been

created for exactly this purpose, and supports a very simple method for teachers to create a task, add some resources and then assign it to one (or many) groups. An instructional video has been released to accompany this exciting new module.




Terminology Editor

My Learning powers integrated learning systems all over the world, and with so many types of schools, esatblishments and users – we do our best to ensure that our designs and user experience continue to support such a varied audience. We are very pleased to announce the availability of the “Terminology Editor”, which allows the administrator to directly change any term/word within the product.

Example #1: You wish to replace every use of the word “School” with “Academy”. The effect: “School spaces” would become “Academy spaces”. Example #2: You wish to replace every use of the word “Teacher” with “Mentor”. The effect: “Send a message to a Teacher”, would become “Send a message to a Mentor”.

School Advertiser

This is an extemely powerful new feature which allows your administrator to force any content, links or documents directly to the front page of ALL users (including Parents). It’s a brilliant way of communicating raw content, pre-defined “pins” from a pin board or sharing web links and files directly with the entire school. We’ve also added the facility to allow teachers to to post items to the School Advertiser also. Examples uses:

Handing out common shared forms for filling

Posting out school news to the entire audience

Delivering links to important documents

Asking for survey feedback or applications




Widescreen mode As users and establishments constantly upgrade their equipment, the use of wide-screen monitors has finally become standard. So, with the transition from 4:3 format to 16:9 and 16:10 being the accepted standard for internet users My Learning have released support for both formats inside the VLE. Users can simply toggle their display between widescreen and normal on any device. You will find this new tool towards the upper right of your dashboard panel editor, symbolised by an icon as below:

Uptime reporting My Learning Support regularly monitor all our data-centre’s and off-site equipment using their own internal tools. We now publish our (public) server information online so that end-users are able to track the uptime of all our services worldwide. You will see a new icon at the lower right of the login page or can use: http://uptime.mylearningltd.com for a fully navigable report of uptime.

School Space Websites The ability to create mini websites within My Learning is a popular choice for teachers who wish to create a media rich, blended environment for their classrooms and learning spaces. Now, we have provided the same abilities for School Spaces too. This is extremely useful, as administrators (and their delegated editors) can create departmental websites or whole-school shared websites to showcase work, galleries and easily share resources in a website style.

Bulk grading of Homework A popular request from teachers was to allow them to bulk-grade multiple homework submissions from students. Now, teachers can simply multi-select students (or select all) and apply a bulk grade and generic comment for feedback.

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New content library items Five additional service providers have been added to the integrated Content Library in this edition. So if your school uses any of the providers below, you’ll have direct integration with their resources. These are “Singup”, “ConnectEd”, “Mindspark”, “Tumblebook”, “Capstone” and “Cambridge University Press”.

Teacher and Classroom performance reports

Another useful addition for this release is the new ability for Administrators and Teachers to visualise homework performance using our new range of performance reports. These new types of reports allow full data drill-down for the user who is logged in. For example, the Administrator can view performance of homework information by viewing all teachers, and then selecting an individual teacher will summarise their homework performance. The reports are clickable, so that users can navigate both up and down different data levels to visualise and understand exactly what is happening at a homework level. (As part of the work towards the next edition of My Learning, the development team will be leveraging the same reporting style for Blogs, Forums, Forms and Tasks)




Improved and updated features Updated features which improve the user experience (by request).

1) New button in homework that allows a teacher to quickly remind all students that they need to check their homework manager.

2) Parents can now alter their display type when browsing files. 3) New option to apply an active grading template to all existing learning spaces and classes. 4) New translations added for the following “wysiwyg” buttons:

a. International characters b. Justify centre c. Insert media d. Upload file e. Insert gadget

5) Can now save draft messages from the mail module. 6) Added the ability to bulk delete archived homework. 7) In tablet mode users can now add the folder they're currently browsing to their clipboard. 8) Learning space managers can now manage learning space blogs, similar to class managers. 9) If a parent fills out a form then the parent's details are shown in the results instead of the students.

10) Forms can now have a maximum number of overall submissions. 11) Individual form submissions can now be deleted. 12) Students can now see their grades for individual pieces of work in the homework manager. 13) New task manager module added - This allows teachers to set task lists for groups of, or individual, students and track their progress.

14) New school advertiser module - This allows the admin to set separate school wide messages for all students and teachers in a forced dashboard panel. They can also pin items to this panel.

15) New overview homework grading over view report added. 16) Pin board links, where applicable, will now have the MyVLE toolbar at the top. 17) School spaces can now have websites attached to them, like learning spaces and classes. This must be done by the admin.

18) You can now move website menu items when editing a website. Allowing pages to be moved from one subpage to another easily.

19) Homework items can now be bulk graded and commented on. Items that have already been graded cannot be bulk graded.

20) New terminology editor - This allows the admin to change the terminology used throughout the entire VLE.

21) The image gallery widget used in MLD files and websites now has scroll left and right buttons to more easily browse the gallery.

22) The MyVLE tool bar now has an “add to clipboard” button. 23) Calendar events on the dashboard panel are now clickable and will present the user with a popup

24) The weekly view from within the calendar module now allows the user to go to a print view.




Minor issues resolved Bugs, minor changes and implemented fixes since v29. The list below represents identified issues with the previous version which have now been identified and resolved in v30 (Memphis Praxias)

1) The messages dashboard panel now allows for long single-word subject lines. 2) Fixed missing file options for students. 3) "Sort by" options now work correctly when accessed through the filezone. 4) Fixed a permissions problem when pasting files from the clipboard. 5) Altering course module settings no longer forces a page refresh. 6) Reduced the time taken for auto-enrol in learning spaces to process. 7) If diaries are set to private, but still require moderation, the selected moderator can now

correctly see the diary entry. 8) Select all in the parent manager now does what it says. 9) The "leave website" button on internal websites will now more reliably take the user back

where they came from. 10) If a .jpg contains corrupt meta data the system will now attempt to fix it automatically (some

camera’s produce badly formatted meta-data) 11) “Send to archive” option in the homework manager no longer shows if the user is already in the

archive. 12) Users can delete files by dragging and dropping them into the recycle bin. 13) The “link to file” close window button now works as one would expect it to work on a tablet. 14) Student ages are now worked out more accurately so the correct age will show on their “my

info” page. 15) Bookmarks with a description now show that description in the bookmarks table. 16) Folder browser widget no longer outputs homework folders if someone decides to share an

entire class. 17) Folder browser widget no longer outputs virtual folder links (by design) 18) If a user has been sent an instant message and then had their communications disabled they

will no longer be thrown into an inescapable loop.




Open BETA Participation

An invitation to work directly with the team who improve My Learning! As all our customers are aware, the development ethos at My Learning is built very much upon a “Can do” approach. In reality this means that “If our system doesn’t do it, then it soon will”. We have therefore decided to offer select access to our BETA participation server. This gives chosen individuals/specialists the ability to try out our new ideas and technologies before they are released to the public. It can be an invaluable way of suggesting new ideas and improving the product for everyone. If you wish to be part of this geeky crowd of sleepless influencers, then email [email protected] for an instant login and password, and membership to the diminishing world of creativity in education.

The next version of My Learning

v31 entitled “Nica Flavilla” is due in late September 2015 Perhaps one of the largest updates to the My Learning suite of products, the next major edition of the software will contain the following features:

Departmental Level features. Establish departments by linking classrooms and subjects.

Imprint custom designed “dashboards” to the entire school, classes or individuals.

Multi screen mode. Users will have a “School” dashboard and a “Home” dashboard.

Swipe between your ‘screens’ on desktop, tablet or mobile devices. Smart TV compatible.

Full support for our upcoming integrated mobile apps (IOS and Android).

Highler level of statistical reports for SIMS user (for any school who uses our SIMS client).

Teacher level SIMS data on students (for any school who uses our SIMS client).

Launch and edit Office Online documents directly within My Learning.

A new My Learning “Enterprise” theme which emulates the Microsoft Metro interface design.

Turn websites and MLD’s directly into cross-platform ePub3 documents.

Full LTI 2.0 integration and support for MOOC and 3rd party content.

ClusterPad – Our new school-to-school community file sharing hub (Sharepoint replacement).

Federated login, with support for Microsoft FIM.

New data-centre locations in the Far East and new end-point nodes for faster access.

Preview of our real-time document and image annotation services.

Drag and drop clipboard (under discussion for v31)

Individual file auditing, tracking and statistics module (Workflow)

Admins can delegate teachers with certain privileges in My Learning (i.e: Reset passwords)

Push Notification Services allow VLE to communicate directly with end-users.

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