Cloud Integration
Our users want a choice of cloud service. We believe that all users must be able to quickly and easily use their favorite cloud resources in itslearning. We want to remove barriers to accessing cloud services, and make sure that linking accounts from itslearning to the cloud is as simple as possible.
We want our users to have the leading Office 365 and Google Apps integration.
Students and teachers should be able to collaborate on documents in the cloud directly from itslearning. Everyone can link to, view and edit cloud files through their preferred cloud file viewer directly from itslearning.
Teachers can easily use cloud resources in tasks, planner, assignment or course. They can use the great collaboration tools from Google Apps for Education or Microsoft Office to create secure, shared work-spaces for whole classes or groups of students. Teachers can create a shared collaborative document with a few taps and let the shared learning process begin.
We are also going to provide a single place to view all of the files you have uploaded or linked to itslearning – making it easier to reuse files from your device or the cloud.
Last Updated: april 27, 2017
Integrated Assessment Processes
We want itslearning to be a student’s one-stop-shop for grades, allowing them to quickly check grades on the device of their choosing.
This does require teachers to put those grades in first, so our gradebook works intuitively and relevant grades are exported to the SIS.
In addition, our assessment tools invite teachers to do these activities online.
Students can take a test or submit an assignment on the device of their choosing. Assignment answers can be submitted via their cloud service, such as Google Drive or One Drive.
To streamline the assessment process, teachers can view submitted documents without the need of downloading them first and can make annotations on the fly.
To lower the threshold to start with online assessment activities, we will make it possible to share them with each other via the Library.
Last Updated: mai 10, 2017
itslearning Library & Content Integration
The itslearning library is our education focused learning object repository. Based on regional, national and international standard and tagging it creates a great space for finding, sharing and re-using content from teachers and the top educational publishers.
We want to have the best LMS ecosystem for sharing educational tools and resources – this can help share knowledge, resources and make the job of teaching easier. We want to make the itslearning library our teacher’s preferred tool for searching, creating, and sharing learning resources. Today we have some customers with over 2 million resources in their itslearning library and we are improving the search usability to make finding the right content as simple as possible.
We will include better searching across the different standard systems used by different districts to improve search results (standards cross-walking).
We want to build on the 20+ national and international publishers who have added their content to itslearning. We will extend the options for importing and managing publisher content. We will give publishers more viability of usage so they can target their content to better support key educational challenges.
Our key themes all interrelate to make the itslearning library the heart of our teaching ecosystem.
Last Updated: april 27, 2017
More on Mobile
The itslearning app gives you everything you need from your LMS, on your mobile phone. We will provide a full itslearning experience, no matter which device you’re using, and the itslearning app will be the best app for activities and assessments. Our users gets important news, updates and messages directly on their phone, they have full access to their courses and their course content, our students can complete their tasks and homework, and our teachers can assess their students. The Android itslearning parent app aims to give parents access to the information and tools they need to keep up to date on their children’s school activities. All children’s information is gathered in one app so parents can get a quick overview of what there children are supposed to do the coming week
itslearning provides educational institutions with a world leading mobile LMS. Through our native apps, we extend the value of the learning platform to the users’ personal devices. We allow our students, teachers and school staff to perform their most important tasks directly through the native app. This will ensure that itslearning is the best mobile LMS in the world. How do we achieve this?
Main app
First, we’ll make sure that logging in to itslearning through the app is both simple and secure. Our user’s will be able to authenticate directly in the app using the authentication method specified by the school owners, while making it simple for returning users to access itslearning through the app.
Second, our app gives our users a simple way to get quick and easy access important news and updates, they can see their tasks, receive and send messages, and stay in contact with their teachers and students.
Third, we’re giving students and teachers full access to their courses and course content through the app without opening external browser windows. This means that using their app, our users get easy access to important news and updates, they can see their tasks, their messages and stay in contact with other users.
Fourth, our students and teachers will get full access to all their courses and course content directly through the app, without being redirected to external browsers. If a student gets a task or an assignment, they will not only receive a notification, they will also be able to see, reflect and submit their work directly through the app.
Finally, our teachers will be able to manage their courses and assess activities directly within the app, without having login to itslearning on a browser.
With this, our users will get the full itslearning experience, directly in our native apps!
Parent app
Similar to the itslearning main app the itslearning parent app focuses on a simple and secure login. The app allows parents to log in with their own user credentials, giving parents access to all their children’s information in one location. Even though the children go to different schools, the app can gather all children’s information in one app.
The parent app gives the parent a quick overview of what each child is expected to do the coming week. The children’s activities are clearly separated by week, giving parents a quick overview what each child is expected to do each day. In addition it is easy to distinguish what tasks are already completed by the child and what they have left to do.
Last Updated: april 27, 2017
Onboarding & UX
All you need is love so the song goes and we want our users to love using itslearning. We are improving and simplifying the way users work in itslearning – making everything smoother, faster and more streamlined. Every teacher will find it easy to create and find learning resources and activities, and use them to plan, delivery and assess.
Teachers can be confident that everything needed reaches the student at the right time, and that students understand the learning goals and what they want to achieve. This includes clearer access to homework, assessments, tasks and tests on the desktop and mobile.
We want to make students feel supported in their learning. Helping understand the different topics and lead him on them on the right path to get ready for test and assignments, and reaching his goals. That’s why we will provide a brand new easy to browse Plan viewer, where the students can solve their tasks in the right context of resources. And of course, on every device.
New on-screen help and ‘onboarding’ will guide teachers through the core itslearning tools and give examples and support when using new features or accessing existing ones.
Last Updated: april 10, 2017
Reporting
Powerful reporting to allow for better planning and understanding of teaching and learning, enabling actions and decisions that lead to success for all students. Our suite of report templates provides useful insights into user engagement, curriculum management and student progress. Along with customizable views of user and course activity, Advanced Reporting provides a comprehensive picture of pedagogical activity and progress.
itslearning aims to empower our customers, with the insights they need to evaluate and improve their educational programs and practices. Our Advanced Reporting approach differentiates itslearning from competitors in its emphasis on flexibility and customization, to align with diverse customer priorities and practices. Both Advanced Reporting and our standard reports build on our product strengths, particularly in curriculum management and standards-based assessment.
Curriculum management: View the types of content and assessments teachers are using in their courses, statistics on their use, and how they are aligned to standards.
User engagement: See the patterns of use of itslearning – who is logging in, from which schools, when, and for how long. These reports can help you to understand adoption of itslearning across your district and identify.
Student progress: Do you need to find students who are struggling? To find the topics in the curriculum where students are not performing as expected? To compare performance across schools and courses? Your data on students results can show you what you need to know to help all students succeed.
Last Updated: april 10, 2017