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University
Pearson LearningStudio
Product Roadmap
Center for Distance Education
elearning@uiu.edu
FeatureUniversity
Releases
Upper
Iowa
Topics
Content Area Changes:
Author Mode - hide unit during development
Notifications - throughout course
Gradebook Enhancements:
Convert numeric score to letter grade
Content item “gradable” on creation
Auto-zero feature
Drop lowest & highest score
Updated student view
Threaded Discussion Improvements:
Auto Save
Student Threads Interface V2
Multimedia in Discussion threads
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Feature
Releases
(continued)
Upper
Iowa
University
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Topics
Exam Enhancements (Nov 2014)
• QTI Exam Package Upload
• Randomized Distractors
• Display Previous Answers
• Multi-take Exam
Mobile Update
Social Course Home Overview
Author
Mode
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Iowa
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Hide unit during development
Released for production April 1, 2014
Course Home > Author > Course Items > Add Week
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LearningStudio Notifications
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Release scheduled for December 2014
Configured by user in Tools Menu
Designate notifications per course and activity type
Notifications – Mobile SMS text, or two email accounts
Activity – Announcements, discussions, grades or
assignments
Pearson LearningStudio Notifications - General Availability
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Gradebook: Convert Numeric Score to Letter
Grade
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Released into production October 2014
Online grading scale
Insert Final Grade Button
Final Letter Grade Summary Report
Final letter grade appears in the gradebook inline with
the numeric score
Convert Score to Letter Grade Notes
Gradebook:
Content
item
“gradable”
onwww.uiu.edu
creation
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Released into production April 1, 2014
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Gradebook: Auto Zero Feature
• In production October 2014
• Wasting time manually entering zeroes in the Gradebook
for missing assignments?
• Use the Auto-Zero Feature to quickly assign zeroes in
grade points for all non-submitted or ungraded work.
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Gradebook: Drop Lowest & Highest score
Development beginning in 4th quarter
Completion in 1st quarter 2015
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Gradebook: Updated Student Experience
• Scheduled for release December 15, 2014
• Engage your students with additional communication
opportunities.
• New, streamlined student user-experience.
• More modern, organized look and feel along with new
at-a-glance indicators for: rubrics, grades, scores and
instructor comments.
Discussions:
Audio-Video
in Threads
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With the new media icon in the visual editor, instructors and students
have three media embedding options including: adding a URL for a
photo, or video, or embed code for any type of media that can be
viewed directly in the post; eliminating the need for attachments or
leaving the discussion to view media.
Threaded Discussion Improvements
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University
Auto Save – Active Automatic saves within threaded discussions solves
a problem faced by students and professors when creating threaded
discussions, specifically losing unsaved responses due to issues such as
a browser crashes, system timeouts, or any unexpected/accidental
closures of the browser.
Hide Topics – Active Instructors now have the ability to post a
discussion in advance and hide topics from students until it’s time for
the assignment.
Improved Interface – Dec 15 Improved user experience for students
and faculty. In course mode, students will see a whole new look and
feel. The tools have icons and the workflows have been optimized. All
of the improvements identified in the screens below were designed to:
save time, improve usability, and provide at-a-glance views to quickly
navigate threaded discussions.
Exam
Enhancements
Nov 2014www.uiu.edu
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QTI Exam Package Upload - With this release, instructors can upload WPS,
TestGen and Respondus packages in QTI format using the exam authoring tools.
The Exam Package Upload tool will be available as a new button next to the
Content, Tools, and Test banks buttons in Exams.
Randomized Distractors - Leading up to this release, multiple choice (MC) and
many multiple choice (MMC) question types presented the answer/distractors
in a fixed order which can lead to cheating. With this release, the
answers/distractors can be presented in a random order for each
student. Instructor controls are found in the tool box.
Display Previous Answers when Retaking Multi-Take Exams
Prior to this release, when retaking a multi-take exam all questions displayed as
unanswered. This enhancement provides an option to display student answers
to the questions from the previous attempt. Instructor controls are found in
the tool box.
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Multi Take Exams
• In production July 2014
• Display the Number of Attempts by the student in the
Gradebook.
• Allowing students to take an exam multiple times to
better their scores
• Instructors can see the number of attempts in the
Gradebook Grade Detail View
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Mobile Update
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LearningStudio Courses App
Available for Android Tablet and Apple iPad
Download from Google Play or Apple Store
iPhone and Android phone app planned for 1st Qtr 2015
Course App for iPad and Android Tablets
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University
Social Course
Home
The Social Course Homepage is designed to allow greater interaction
between students and the instructor right as they enter the course. The
Activity Feed allows for easy viewing of course activity and the People
tab allows students and instructors to get to know their classmates.
There are even options to start Skype and other interactive sessions
right from the homepage.
CDE
Professional
Schedule
Upper
IowaDevelopment
University
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Iowa
University
Date
December 16,
Tuesday 3:00 –
4:00 PM
January 22
(Thursday )
2:00 pm
January 24
(Saturday )
10:00 am
Topics
Syllabus - Develop your online syllabus using the Guide
Civility and Professionalism in the Online Classroom - Issues
Concerning Student Participation
Presenter
ID Services
Dr. Shipper
February 26
March 26
April 16
(Thursday ) at
7:00 pm CST
Active Learning - Using Discussions Online
Rubrics – Make your life easy
Blended/Hybrid Teaching - Options, Examples, Best Practices
ID Services
ID Services
Dr. Shipper
April 29
June 2015
To be
scheduled
Respondus – Few clicks to build your quiz
Topic of Choice
Turnitin – Plagiarism Prevention
ID Services
Faculty will self-nominate
ID Services
To be
scheduled
Panopto – Using Lecture Capture in your Course
eLearning
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Iowa
University
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Upper
Iowa
University
Center
for Distance
Education
Education Services cdefaculty@uiu.edu Invitations to teach and
course assignments
eLearning Team elearning@uiu.edu Faculty training courses,
academic course access, students enrollments
Instructional Design Services idservices@uiu.edu Online course
design and development.
UIU CDE Resources Website