PRODUCT ROADMAP Steven Threadgold - Head of Product Management, itslearning
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PRODUCT ROADMAP
Steven Threadgold
Head of Product Management, itslearning
Inputs to the Roadmap
Primary Research Analyst Reports & Industry Trends
Customer Feedback & Usability Testing Secondary Research
What’s Most Important to Teachers in a Learning Platform?
To do these tasks… …and use these tools and resources
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
52%
48% 47% 45% 44%
20%
10%
0%
Administering in- Grading Communicating Communicating Administrating
class assignments and broader individually with in-class
assignments assessments annoucements to parents and assessments
entire class or students
parents
Our Focus Delight Teachers Engage Students
Delight teachers…by streamlining daily tasks with a world-class UX, seamless connections to cloud apps, and a universe of brilliant content Engage students…on their unique education journey with compelling resources and personal learning paths
Roadmap Four Themes
Show teachers some Have customers love (even more)
serious love those features they use every day
Especially for Feature
Teachers! Enhancements
Feature Higher
Additions Education
Have entirely new reasons to Extend the love to Higher Education
love itslearning customers
Especially for Feature Feature Higher
Teachers Additions Enhancements Education
• Seamless • Learning Paths • Shareable Test Tool • Course & Group
Google/Microsoft (including Item Banks) Management
Integration • Peer Assessment
• 360o Reporting • Flexible ePortfolio
• Easy-to-use Tools & • Standards-based (including Time on functionality
Navigation Gradebook task)
• Branding &
• All-in-One Grading • Bigger & Better Terminology
Tool Library
• Mobile Engagement • Expanded Messaging
with Parents & Capabilities
Students
Especially for Feature
Teachers! Enhancements
Feature Higher
Additions Education
Seamless Google/Microsoft Integration Students submit assignments using Google/O365 Teachers “clone” assignments with template documents Single-sign on Create and manage Google and O365 documents across itslearning All-in-one grader works seamlessly on cloud doc assignments Teachers provide feedback in-progress feedback to students in cloud doc
Easy-to-use Tools
& Navigation
Stellar user experience
improvements across the
platform
Consistent file handling and
easy to reuse files across
itslearning
Easier browsing and searching
Cleaner design, improved tool
tips, and better in-product
feedback (e.g. action
EXAMPLE: Your Files
confirmations)All-in-One Grading Tool Assignment Feedback & Annotations Grades Easy Navigation
Mobile Engagement with Colleagues & Students • Most crucial information at first glance • Post important bulletins or update events on the go • Check off tasks wherever, whenever • Improved security (e.g. touch ID) itslearning app
Especially for Feature
Teachers! Enhancements
Feature Higher
Additions EducationLearning Paths Teachers will be able to create customised learning experiences Successful learning paths can be reused Fosters flexible, self-paced student learning
Peer assessment Students can assess/review their peers through the assignment tool Create groups at random Students know who to assess and when
Standards-based
Gradebook
T212.3 T212.3 RA.33
Understanding Space Understanding Distance Unit Measurements
Standards-based scales unique
to your organisations
For each learning objective
teachers can record a
standards-based score
Combine individual learning
objective scores into overall
masteryEspecially for Feature
Teachers! Enhancements
Feature Higher
Additions EducationQTI
certified
Shareable Test
Tool
Quicker, slicker, and 100% mobile
Import 3rd party item banks
Faster set-up of tests, easier to
create questions
Grab tests from library (school or
whole site)
Share questions with teachers in
your university or the entire
itslearning community360o Reporting (including Time on task) Course comparison and deep dive for each student Time spent in courses Time spent on tasks
Menu
Library Even Bigger
Even Smarter
Even CoolerExpanded Messaging Capabilities Broadcast announcements to many users Better auditing of messages More options to control notifications
Especially for Feature
Teachers! Enhancements
Feature Higher
Additions EducationCourse and Group Management Better support for larger courses Combine participants and groups in one view Allow teachers to automatically create course groups (Random or with a max # of students)
Flexible ePortfolio functionality
• A personal ePortfolio of student work and experiences is an important part of the
lifelong learning process
• Our portfolio will:
Allow all work to be recorded in a student’s own personal portfolio
Store outcomes from all our core tools
Provide secure external access under school/organisation control
Provide export capabilities for students to keep their portfolio into the future
Better support for lifelong learningBranding & Terminology UX tailored for higher education Institution-specific branding
Many other exciting changes are coming in 2018, including: • Updates to the design & organisation of the itslearning tools to make them easier to use • Improved ways for teachers and students to see what’s happening by date • Quick Create workflows for quick and easy content updates to Courses • “In-progress” access to student assignments for a sneak peek at unfinished work • Easier ways to see your user data in itslearning and manage it from one place • A continued focus on adding third party capabilities to the itslearning platform • Even more personalisation and customisation capabilities
Expected End 2017/Early 2018* Spring-Summer 2018
• Google Cloud Integration (Assignment Tool + SSO) • Microsoft365 Cloud Integration (Assignment Tool)
• Peer Assessment • All-in-One Grading capability
• Learning Paths • Global usability improvements across the platform
• Shareable Test Tool • Global Search capabilities
• 360o & Time-on-Task reports • Third Party Integrations
• Branding & Terminology • Item Banks
• Course & Group Management • Bigger & Better Library
• In-progress Assignment Review
• Cloud - Creating docs inside itslearning
• Standards-based Gradebook
• Flexible ePortfolio
• Quick Create workflows
• Library Personalization and Customization
• GDPR – User Data Management updates
*subject to change
• AttendanceGPDR
What is it? What is itslearning doing about GDPR?
General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, is a
regulation that will apply to all businesses that handle itslearning will be fully compliant with the regulation
personal data of EU residents from 25th of May 2018. prior to May 25, 2018.
Itslearning will give all our customers full confidence
in our data handling processes and procedures:
Why does it matter?
As “controllers” (collectors) of personal data, • The right to be forgotten
Educational Centers will have to be compliant with • The right to rectification
the regulation. Controllers must: • The right to restriction of processing
• The right to portability of data
• Know how this data is used by third parties
• Ensure that the data subject is aware about all the
processing done with his data
• Ensuring the security of this data
• Being aware of all data processing activitiesTHANK YOU!
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