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Inputs to the Roadmap

Primary Research

Customer Feedback & Usability Testing

Analyst Reports & Industry Trends

Secondary Research

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Administering in-class

assignments

Gradingassignments and

assessments

Communicatingbroader

annoucements toentire class or

parents

Communicatingindividually with

parents andstudents

Administratingin-class

assessments

What’s Most Important to Teachers in a Learning Platform?

To do these tasks… …and use these tools and resources

• Goals

Delight Teachers Involve Parents

Engage Students

Our Focus

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

Involve parents…by connecting them to information about their children’s progress with a purpose-built app

Four ThemesRoadmap

Especially forTeachers!

FeatureAdditions

FeatureEnhancements

Higher Education

Show teachers some serious love

Extend the love to Higher Education customers

Have entirely new reasons to love itslearning

Have customers love (even more) those features they use every day

Especially for Teachers

• Seamless Google/Microsoft Integration

• Easy-to-use Tools & Navigation

• All-in-One Grading Tool

• Mobile Engagement with Parents & Students

Feature Additions

• Learning Paths

• Peer Assessment

• Standards-based Gradebook

Feature Enhancements

• Shareable Test Tool (including Item Banks)

• 360o Reporting (including Time on task)

• Bigger & Better Library

• Expanded Messaging Capabilities

Higher Education

• Course & Group Management

• Flexible ePortfoliofunctionality

• Branding & Terminology


FeatureAdditions

FeatureEnhancements

Higher 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 confirmations) EXAMPLE: Your Files

Easy Navigation

Assignment

Feedback & Annotations

Grades

All-in-One Grading Tool

Mobile Engagement with Parents & 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

Mobile Engagement with Parents & Students

• Purpose-built app for parents

• See child’s progress at a glance

• Tasks, homework with due date and completion status, plans and events

• Messaging for communication with teachers

Parent app


FeatureAdditions

FeatureEnhancements

Higher Education

Learning Paths

Teachers will be able to create customized learning experiences

Successful learning paths can be reused

Fosters self-paced student learning

Peer assessment

Students can assess/review their peers through assignment tool

Create groups at random

Students know who to assess and when

Standards-based Gradebook

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 mastery

T212.3Understanding Space

T212.3Understanding Distance

RA.33Unit Measurements


FeatureAdditions

FeatureEnhancements

Higher Education

Shareable Test ToolQuicker, 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 school or the itslearning community

QTIcertified

360o Reporting (including Time on task)

Course comparison and deep dive for each student

Time spent in courses

Time spent on task

Library Even Bigger

Even Smarter

Even Cooler

Expanded Messaging Capabilities

Broadcast announcements to many users

Better auditing of messages

More options to control notifications


FeatureAdditions

FeatureEnhancements

Higher Education

Course 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 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 life long learning

Branding & Terminology

UX tailored for higher education

Institution-specificbranding

And many other exciting changes are coming in 2018, including:

• Updates to the design and organization of itslearning tools to make it 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

• Personalization and customization capabilities

*subject to change

• Google Cloud Integration (Assignment Tool + SSO)

• Parent App

• Learning Paths

• Shareable Test Tool

• 360o & Time-on-Task reports



• Peer Assessment

• Microsoft365 Cloud Integration (Assignment Tool)

• All-in-One Grading capability

• Global usability improvements across the platform

• Global Search capabilities

• Third Party Integrations

• Item Banks


• In-progress Assignment Review

• Cloud - Creating docs inside itslearning


• Flexible ePortfolio

• Quick Create workflows

• Library Personalization and Customization

• GDPR – User Data Management updates

• Attendance

Expected End 2017/Early 2018* Spring-Summer 2018

T H A N K Y O U !

Appendix

France






• Cahier de Textes

Feature Additions

• Learning Paths

• Peer Assessment







• GDPR Compliance

Higher Education




Norway






• New Attendance System

Feature Additions

• Learning Paths

• Peer Assessment







• GDPR Compliance

Higher Education




New Attendance System

• Total overhaul of our existing attendance system

• Mobile friendly

• Much faster to record attendance

GPDR

What is it?

General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, is a regulation that will apply to all businesses that handle personal data of EU residents from 25th of May 2018.

Why does it matter?

As “controllers” (collectors) of personal data,Educational Centers will have to be compliant withthe regulation. Controllers must:

• 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 activities

What is itslearning doing about GDPR?

itslearning will be fully compliant with the regulationprior to May 25, 2018.

Itslearning will give all our customers full confidencein our data handling processes and procedures:

• The right to be forgotten• The right to rectification• The right to restriction of processing• The right to portability of data

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