- The ability for portal administrators to assign courses to students in a portal. It will be accomplished by assigning courses to user groups. One cool aspect of this feature will be that users who are added to a group after that group had courses assigned to it will also be assigned the same courses. We are also building a related reporting feature, which will track the completion of courses for all users in the portal.
- Tracking of Continuing Education Units (CEU). We have been hearing for a while that the ability to simply track CEUs would be valuable. As with most features, we are going to start out with a simple approach to this feature by giving authors the ability to record how many CEUs and what type of CEUs are satisfied by a course. There will also be reporting for this at the student and educator levels.
- OK, I'm going to commit to something here that makes me a little nervous, but we are actually going to do something with starting to automate the importing of PowerPoint documents into LearningZen. The first cut at this feature will probably involve the use of a third part site, but you will have a well-defined and directed pathway for getting your existing PowerPoint files into LearningZen. This is something we have wanted for a very long time and I'm excited to see it coming.
- Finally, we need to redesign the course history section of the Bookshelf. This older part of LearningZen is in dire need of re-engineering. It is not aware of all of the different possibilities that can occur for a student's taking of courses. I think the new design we are talking about is going to be a very nice addition to the Bookshelf.
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Thomas Klassen
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