Product Roadmap

Our current Google integration in our Assignment tool will be extended to allow teachers to not only select Google files as attachment, but also create a copy of a Google file for each student or group as basis for their submission. Students can “complete” this copy and submit their version of it.

The assessment process will also be enhanced, making it possible to assess the answer at the same time you can see the submitted file.

As with Google, itslearning will include Office 365 tools such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint in the assignment flow. Teachers can choose a file from their OneDrive or create a new Office file and include it in their assignment. This can either provide additional instruction, or provide each student with a copy of the file to be completed and submitted.

Teaching and Learning is all about engagement with teachers and students, and we’re continuing to enhance our mobile capabilities.

Crucial information at first glance: We aim to gather the really important stuff on the first page you see — find your lessons, tasks and plans in one place. The details are only a click away!

Post important bulletins on the go: We are adding more options to be interactive in the app. Adding bulletins and calendar events is coming soon.

Improved security: Forced itslearning password change and setting up pin code or touch ID to open the app are both in planning.

itslearning will now include the ability to use peer assessment (or ‘review’) on an assignment.

To make life easy for our teachers, itslearning will automatically distribute submitted work among students. The teacher only needs to let us know how many answers each student should assess.

For each student, teachers will be able to see the peer assessments received as well as the peer assessments this student has given.

A Learning Path can be defined in a myriad of ways, but here is how we plan to include Learning Paths within itslearning:

Our Learning Paths will be a sequence of resources that a student can work through at their own pace. The path can be a linear sequence (moving on to the next resource) or a branched sequence where the next resource depends on the results of a student on a resource.

Teachers can arrange the material in steps and set the rules for alternatives, free navigation and unlocking. In essence, the teacher or curriculum manager defines the release conditions upon which new resources and activities will be presented to the user. Example of release conditions can be completion of a task or achievement of a certain score.

Learning Paths can be shared and re-used, and these shared paths can be further customised by teachers. Teachers can see where students are in the path and provide more support if required. Students can self-pace their learning path, review progress and see what they need to do to move on to the next step.

The Gradebook is becoming faster, smarter and more efficient for teachers using itslearning.

– Improved Gradebook performance allows for faster loading and responsiveness even for large classes

– Enhanced accessibility improves usability for all types of Gradebook users

– Modern UI updates will breathe new life into some dated-looking pages

– Enhancements to keyboard navigation allows for quicker editing and fewer clicks

We´re making it much easier for teachers to create and add content, and have this content presented to their students where they want to see it. This includes showing resources in events, creating resources directly in the calendar, and making closer connections between the course page and the calendar: what the teacher add in the calendar should become plans in the planner behind the scenes and vice versa.

It will now be possible to assess a submitted assignment or answer while viewing the submitted file.

The standards-based gradebook gives a wealth of information to help teachers assess students’ mastery of learning objectives and adjust instruction nimbly.

– Configurable standards-based scales allow for flexibility for your organisation to determine mastery

– Teachers can record standards-based scores for learning objectives used in gradebook items

– Combine individual learning objective scores into overall mastery

To give students better control of their learning, a new module called “This Week” will be introduced on their homepage. The module will be closely connected to the calendar and the course pages to display tasks, homework and plans from all courses.

Increased use of the planner will ensure that learning goals, activities and resources will reach the students in an efficient way through the student’s plan view. With the new editable planner, we want to lower the threshold of making plans in a course. The next step will be to connect events and plans.

Our popular test tool was due for a facelift, so we are making it both shareable and mobile friendly. It is already available for new customers, and will be default for new customers as soon as we have important features like QTI import and TMB capabilities in place.

The next goal is to replace the current tool for all our users with a full feature set and a few extras that we have added based on user input. We’ll keep your old tests functional, with an option to migrate them to the new tool.

In 2018, you will also see item banks in itslearning for the first time, and we are excited to give this valuable addition to an already popular tool.

In 2018 you will also see item banks in itslearning for the first time, and we are excited to give this valuable addition to an already popular tool. 

Question banks will be for teachers to share questions with their peers, and to find questions from 3rd party vendors. We aim to achieve QTI certification for question banks, and QTI V2.1 format will be required for import from external tools.

Teachers will be provided a completely consistent file experience across itslearning. In “Your Files”, all of a user’s files in itslearning will be accessible in one single place.

We´re making it much easier for teachers to create and add content, and have this content presented to their students where they want to see it. This includes showing resources in events, creating resources directly in the calendar, and making closer connections between the course page and the calendar: what the teacher add in the calendar should become plans in the planner behind the scenes and vice versa

The experience of answering a survey and participating in a discussion will now be greatly improved when on a mobile device.

We are introducing a new sound/video recorder based on WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) which does not need Flash installed. We are also updating our existing online “Flash-based” media recorder to work better with devices that support Flash. For our end users this means more support on more devices for recording sound and video.