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 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.

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

 
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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

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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).

 
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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.

 
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