Our roadmap is an open statement of direction; a guide to where we are prioritizing our efforts. Our focus is to ensure the enhancements are what our customers need and that they are rolled out in the best way possible. However, we may change our plans as better ways to meet customer expectations arise.
In Research
‘Watch’ student progress
This feature will set watches on student progress and achievements. It will notify educators if students require help. Teachers can control the frequency and the type of notification.
Benefits
- Teachers can immediately contact students who require assistance.
- Teachers can set trigger points based on student progress, activity or grades. Saves time - no need to review reports.
- Messages will be sent directly to the desktop platform or mobile app.
- Simple to set up and use.
Combined view of Events + Plans + Tasks
Unified view of upcoming calendar events, plans, assignments and tasks.
Benefits
- Provide a joined-up view of all events, plans, assignments and tasks in one place.
- Easier to see what is happening and when.
Simplified Course Navigation
Simplify the global and course navigation across itslearning.
Improved menu gives easy access to core features without distracting from your primary goal.
Benefits
- Speed up navigation.
- Reduce “cognitive load” on users.
itslearning anywhere
Add content to your courses from mobile or browser with a few clicks.
Benefits
- See a link for your students while browsing the web? Add to a course in itslearning direct from your browser.
- Save teachers time bringing itslearning to where they are working.
Core tool Improvements
Upgrades to the experience of key course tools (Planner, Assignment and Calendar) to improve user experience and user adoption.
Benefits
- Making these tools quicker and slicker to use saves you time.
itslearning & Outlook Calendar
See your itslearning course events and timetables in Outlook.
All your assignments, resources and activities will be visible on their due date and directly accessible from Outlook.
Benefits
- Have one calendar to show all your events, including the ones from itslearning.
- Easily jump to more details in itslearning.
Use OneNote pages
Use OneNote pages in your itslearning course, for example as resource or assignment answer. Combine the strength of OneNote with the strength of the planner, assignment tool and other great tools of itslearning.
Benefits
- Use OneNote pages as resource in the course, including the planner
- Use the great features of OneNote in assignments.
- Use OneNote with all assignment options such as self-assessment and peer assessment.
Microsoft Teams
Each itslearning course will be reflected as MS Team.
Stay up-to date with the latest changes and current tasks and plans from courses.
Benefits
- Use the power of MS Teams together with itslearning.
Younger users: Easier navigation & access
Through 2020 we are working with customers to plan how best to simply and focus the itslearning experience for younger users.
Benefits
- We want to change how younger children experience online learning.
- Make information simpler to understand and more engaging.
Share itslearning calendar with Outlook
See your itsleanring course events and timetables in Outlook.
Benefits
- Access assignments, resources and activities from Outlook
- Save time and see all your events in one place
In Development
Integrating Google Hangouts Meet
Initiate a video chat directly in itslearning using the rich text editor. You can use the video chat for remote instruction, online classes and to answer questions from individual students.
Benefit
- High quality, easy to use video messaging system.
- Useful for remote learning or non-classroom activities.
- Supports student engagement and teaching.
Integrate using LTI 1.3 Advantage
We actively support the use of secure, open standards and are upgrading our LTI support to LTI Advantage. This will give you more 3rd party integration options to itslearning.
Benefit
- Improved security.
- Share rosters, grades and other data through one, well-supported standard.
- Quicker and better integration options between itslearning and 3rd party tools.
- Supports planning, engagement, teaching and assessment.
Improved Test Tool
Quicker, slicker, and 100% mobile.
Share to and grab tests from library.
Seamlessly migrate of older tests to new tool.
Benefits
- Faster set-up of tests, easier to create questions.
- Better workflow, less time to create tests, more reuse of your, and colleagues' tests.
- Better reporting on results.
New Rich-text editor
Significant upgrade to our rich-text editor across the platform. More annotation options for giving feedback to students.
Benefits
- Easier to create content anywhere in itslearning
- Better feedback to students to help improve learning outcomes
Immersive Reader
Available in announcements, notes and assignments.
Provides picture dictionary, read aloud, translations, line focus and more.
Benefits
- Helps students with their reading.
- Opens up content to more users.
Open O365 documents in your desktop app
Open Office for the web resources in your desktop app and use full Word/Excel/PowerPoint features.
Auto-update back to the version in your course.
Benefits
- Makes it easier to editing and work with Office 365 resources.
Use Google Calendar with itslearning
See your itslearning course events and timetables in Google Calendar.
All your assignments, resources and activities will be visible on their due date and directly accessible from Google Calendar.
Benefits
- Have one calendar to show all your events, including the ones from itslearning.
- Easily jump to more details in itslearning.
Import content from Google Classroom
Easily assignments and other content from Google Classroom.
Benefits
- Kick-start your journey in the itslearning platform.
- Easily bring across and reuse content created in Google Classroom
Revamped ePortfolio
Revamped ePortfolio for students to customise and share their achievements.
Benefits
- Customise eporfilios with new themes.
- Easy to see which portfolios are private and which are shared.
- Easier to create great looking portfolios.
- Greater sense of ownership of student's porfolio.
Weekly Course Summary
Opt-in for teachers (with quick opt-out) see a weekly update from the course direct to your phone or desktop.
Benefits
- Makes 360 report data more pro-active.
- Drives teachers to view and benefit from in-course reporting.
Released
Track students work via your course resources
Giving teachers answers to:
- Which of my materials are being looked at most?
- Which content is most popular, which are students spending most time on?
- Who is looking at my resources?
Benefit
Teachers can better focus their time creating resources to increase impact in the classroom.
New Individual Learning Plan Tool
New Individual Learning Plans tool, created by teachers for teachers
Mentors can easily create plans and see students’ progress.
Teachers can create midterm reviews that feed into the ILP.
Parents and students get a detailed overview of the current status and can write their own comments.
Templates for consistency.
Benefit
- Easy access to previous plans for keeping track of the progress.
- Modern, flexible and mobile friendly.
MS Teams and SharePoint Integration
Add files directly from Microsoft Teams or SharePoint to itslearning. Ensure course participants can access these files.
Benefits
- More options to add files for organizations using Office 365 Education
- Simplifies use of MS Teams and SharePoint in itslearning
- Immediately see and add resources from groups you belong to
- Preview files
- Easily add files for students (read-only access)
- Work with multiple accounts
See the release notes
Mass Messaging
Inform your entire community - school or district - with a text blast.
Benefits
- Fast dissemination of information across the whole organization.
- More communication options for organizations.More options to add files for organizations using Office 365 Education
See the release notes
New Homepage – Course Cards & Updates
Course cards give a clear view of all courses on one page. Updates with a new and improved task list that gives students an overview of what they need to do when.
Benefits
- Clear overview of all your courses.
- Quick access to relevant updates and upcoming tasks and events.
- Courses are shown as easy-read, editable, color-coded cards.You can quickly swap between your home and school accounts.
See the release notes
New Task list in courses
Improved task list for students on the Course Overview page shows students exactly what they need to do when.
Benefits
- Students see immediately what they need to do first: Tasks that are due today and tomorrow.
- Tasks that have expired will not be displayed. This is to help students focus on what's most important and timely.
See the release notes
Quick access to cloud resources
An easier and quicker way to add files from your Google Drive or OneDrive to itslearning. Ongoing work to improve our integration with the major cloud service providers.
Benefits
- Simple to use. Just click on the ‘Add’ button to access Google Drive and OneDrive files.
- Fewer clicks.
- Time saved.
See the release notes
Self-assessment for students
Teachers can now ask students to self-assess their assignments and boost student engagement. This feature can also be used in combination with peer-assessment and allows for rubrics to be automatically shared to guide self-assessment.
Benefits
- Enhanced support for self-reflection and self-evaluation built into the existing workflow.
- Simple to set-up and easy for students to use.
See the release notes
Automatic G Suite Account Set-up
We have made it easier to automatically connect G Suite accounts for teachers and students in schools or districts using G Suite for Education.
Benefits
- Saves time and effort.
- Extra layer of security because pre-connecting G Suite school accounts means you don't need to manually connect your account to itslearning.
- Use the Google Single Sign-On from Google Apps or on a Chromebook (if enabled for the site).
See the release notes
Group conversations from assignments
Students can now start a conversation with their group members directly from a group assignment. Simply click 'Open group conversation' and start discussing!
Benefits
- Better communication.
- Improved collaboration during group work.
- Encourge teamwork and learning.
See the release notes
