Editure – Roadmap Presentation: 2008

1. Editure – Roadmap Presentation: 2008

2. Jan-June 2008 Release Plan End Feb: (SPA64) • MyClasses Search • RSS Feeds for Enhanced Noticeboard End March: (SPA65) • WYSIWYG Property • Col Metadata (UK) • Espresso content (UK) • Wikipedia Integration

3. Jan-June 2008 Release Plan End April: (SPA66) • Blogs and Wikis Phase 1 (School-wide Wikis) End May: (SPA67) • Look and Feel - Release 2  • Tests & Courses (SCORM/QTI) • Statistics Improvement • SharePoint Integration

4. Jan-June 2008 Release Plan End June: (SPA68) • Blogs and Wikis Phase 2 (Class Wikis and Blogs) • eLF Improvements

5. Feature Demo 1. A demonstration of the following features will be provided: • myclasses Search, • RSS for Enhanced Notice Board, • WYSIWYG Property

6. Feature Demo 2. A demonstration of the following features will be provided: • CoL Metadata, • Espresso Content, • Wikipedia Integration • Tests & Courses (SCORM/QTI)

7. Feature Demo 3. A demonstration of the following features will be provided: • Look and Feel - Release 3,

8. Blogs and Wikis - Phase 1 This project will deliver a School Wiki. It will deliver: • An integrated wiki for each school • School wiki pages can be published to the Internet and shared between schools • Users can create wiki “spaces” and pages • Includes a wysiwyg editor so no special wiki tags need to be entered • Includes a version history showing who made what changes • Includes roll-back to earlier versions • Supports file upload for images, documents, sound etc • Users can be administrators, editors, or viewers • Users can comment on pages without editing them • Search facility within and across Wikis

9. Statistics Improvements This project will deliver a major upgrade of mysuite Statistics Processing. It will deliver: • A scaleable, fault-tolerant solution for SINA statistics (including proxy log entries & cost control). • Near real-time cost control for SINA users. • Near real-time statistics reporting via SINA.

10. Web Part is now showing ‘mysuite summary’ Quick access to mymail, mydesktop, etc. Edit allows users to select number of emails, set-up RSS feed, etc SharePoint Integration [Edit] mymail mydesktop myclasses myportfolio Latest emails. Latest E-mails: Oct 23, 2007 John Smith Hello World Oct 19, 2007 Harry Jones How It Going? Oct 16, 2007 S. Harris What is the problem? Oct 14, 2007 Jez142 Do you need more… Updated Classes: English 1ac Maths 4c History 4 Tests and Courses: Title Class Due Life and times of Nelson History 01/03/2007 Test on Cannons History 12/08/2007 Maths is Fun Maths 31/12/2007 Notice RSS: New Announcement New Announcement New Announcement Test and courses summary Updated Classes (those with new content) RSS feed from Desktop (e.g. noticeboard RSS) Contents of Summary will depend on which options (classes, SCORM, etc) the school uses.

11. Blogs and Wikis - Phase 2 This project will deliver a Class Wiki and Student & Teacher Blogs. It will deliver: • A wiki for each Class. • Summary information for the teacher about new entries and spaces by student • A user blog feature that can be restricted to the school, shared, or even made public

12. eLF Improvements • Improvements in areas of: • eLF Creation • eLF Submission • eLF Management

13. eLF Creation • Template Changes New template selection process including template selection wizard to help user select the eLF that will best meet their needs. • Submission Task Titles Teacher can assign Titles to one or more submission tasks for each eLF.

14. eLF Submissions • Feedback Option for teachers to provide feedback on submissions.

15. eLF Submissions • Resubmission Option for teachers to request student to resubmit their work

16. eLF Submissions • Email Alerts Email alerts will be sent on submission, feedback and resubmission

17. Bulk Management • Archive and Delete These functions can now be performed on multiple eLFs at once.

18. Streamlined eLF Launching • One click launch The intermediate launch screen will be removed. Now clicking on eLFs will launch them directly.

19. July-Dec 2008 Draft Roadmap These items are for consideration (with no specific Service Pack reference against each) • Look and Feel Phase 3 (Fixed Property Zone) • Calendar Improvements  • Filtering Improvements  • QTI Authoring • Student Admin System Integration 2  • Parent Portal • Static Property Library • Multimedia Property • Student Property Creation

20. Look and Feel - Phase 3 This project will deliver a property publishing zone at the top of the desktop. A visual demonstration will be shown

21. Calendar Improvements This project will review and redesign the mysuite calendaring applet in order to provide a unified shared and personal calendaring system. Targeted inclusions are: • Recurring events, • Daily events • Events spanning more than one day, • Shared calendars and • Basic Outlook integration.

22. Filtering Improvements This project will significantly improve the filtering engine of mysuite. It will introduce group-level filtering policies, through the use of a category system for school-level rules. School Administrators will be asked to assign a category to filter rules they set, and will be able to set which of those categories to apply to particular groups (much like the SmartFilter categories operate now). The frequency with which filter lists are updated will also be increased to occur hourly, rather than nightly.

23. QTI Authoring This project will provide an integrated tool that allows teachers to create their own assessment objects. The finished objects will conform to the QTI standard and run in the Tests & Courses property, including reporting marks back to myclasses The tool includes a simple drag and drop interface to create visually appealing and easy to use assessments

24. Student Admin System Integration 2 This project will follow the successful BECTA-led SIF integration pilot delivered in the UK in mid-2007. It will be a joint development between Editure, Netmedia, BECTA, and one of the UK Leading Student Admin Systems (MIS). It will deliver timetabling, attendance, and mark-book information via SIF into mydesktop.

25. Parent Portal This project will deliver a parent portal and allow parent and carer user accounts to be created and associated with students. Parents and carers logging in will see information about their children’s attendance, timetable, and assessments (which will be delivered from the Admin System)

26. Static Property Library This project will deliver an online area where information-based, non-interactive Properties can be published by teachers for cross-deployment sharing. Teachers will be able to log into this resource library and take copies of Properties published there.

27. Multimedia Property This project will deliver the ability to easily add various multimedia files to the WYSIWYG Property. Files will run inside the Property window The media files will be able to be uploaded via the feature or can be stored on the Internet in much the same way that images can be added to myportfolio pages. Planned media types to be supported are: • swf. • flv. • mov, • mpg, mp3, mp4, mpeg. • Quicktime (qt), • Shockwave (dcr) • Windows Media (avi, wmv, wm, asf, asx, wmx, wvx)

28. Student Property Creation This project will deliver the ability for students to create Properties. The property types and sharing privileges available to students is currently under consideration