We Are Listening

Finding a new topic to blog about every week is challenging. It is hard to think of development topics that might be of interest to LearningZen users every week. I can say, though, that we are spending more and more of our development efforts responding to requests from our existing customers, which in of itself may be remarkable to some.

For instance, the current sprint contains a bunch of changes and enhancements that are a direct result of communications with our existing portal users. We have been working with at least four different state agencies as they populate their private portals. In the process of setting up and populating their new portals, they have suggested some really good and useful ideas. Here are some of them:

1. Add course completion date to the My Students CSV exports,
2. Add the ability to define portal-specific registration/account attributes.
3. Add features to the current portal list to allow administrators to reset passwords, resent activation emails, and search or filter the list.
4. Handle long names better in some of the lists.
5. Add the ability to automatically assign a batch of imported users to an existing user group.
6. Add an option to automatically email a portal designee with portal users sign up for courses.
7. Add user name structure flexibility to the import tool
8. Add administrator-specific email content to the portal import tool.
9. Require the changing of passwords after having them reset.
10. Remove some of the steps required when uploading portal logs.

I am very happy that we are able to respond to requests such as these and that we can do it in relatively short time frames. By relatively short, I mean a couple of weeks from when they were suggested to the date there are going to be rolled out.

So, your comments and suggestions for LearningZen are certainly not going to be ignored! Please let us know what you are thinking.

Thomas Klassen