NUS Course Management System Integrated Virtual Learning Environment Roadmap

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1 NUS Course Management System Integrated Virtual Learning Environment Roadmap V10.1 January 2010 IVLE 10.1 is a features upgrade from.net version 3.5 to introduce more new features as well as an optimized database. Some of the enhancements were:- Module: - Refresh module feature for Module Coordinator. - Allow flexibility of sending Anonymous Feedback to module owner or any teaching staff. - Option to SELECTIVELY not publish certain elements of the module description. - Ability to export to excel for module description. - Ability to upload SCORM. Assessment/Survey/Poll: - Include edit icon for Assessment, Survey and Poll questions which redirects user to question bank. Chatroom: - Chat History feature added. - Date and time stamp in History and Logs. - Intelligent auto-scrolling in Chatrooms. Class Management: - Ability to select more than one class groups for deletion. - Included attribute headers as column headers when previewing/exporting to excel. - More options available when importing from tutorial groups into class groups:- Allow for sub-groups for tutorial groups, no cross-tutorial sub-groups, etc. Forum: - Ability to delete attachment from posted message. - New report included:- Subscription Report. - Ability to set read message to unread, and unread messages to read for postings that are less than 14 days old. - New post ore reply will be auto-save as draft every 30 secs. - Allow to save forum thread. Lesson Plan: - Option to include Week 0 when creating Customised Calendar.

2 Multimedia: - Upgraded to Flash Server 3. - Simplify the media upload page:- Automatically update filename to title, remove file size. - Disable the filesize in large upload files, and auto check the filesize when user edit the media. - Option to allow students to download media files. My Community: - Allowing of transfer ownership of community. Project: - New option in the project evaluation report page that allows to generate reports with names only, numbers only or both. Question bank (Assessment & Survey): - Questions in folder can be downloaded in word format. Workbin: - Option to post newly-uploaded files info to Announcement. - Allow to export Workbin reports to excel. V10.0 July 2009 Migration of IVLE to.net version 3.5 to take advantage of security, performance enhancements available in version 3.5. This will also gives the team an opportunity to review and refine existing codes. V9.0 June 2008 The focus on IVLE 9 was on performance, code review and less on features. After much hard-work by the IVLE team, we are confident that IVLE 9 meets the high demands set by the NUS community. We also launch of IVLE social communities, multiple view to access the tools and bug fixes that surfaced during the migration of IVLE 7 to IVLE 8. IVLE 9 was also integrated with additional tools such as Centra Virtual Classroom, Voice-based discussion forums. Some of the enhancements and new features: IVLE Communities - The popular IVLE Communities from IVLE 7 have made a comeback. The IVLE Communities allow users to create online user groups which can include both staff and students What s New notification - Notifications are sent on new files in the Workbin, forum

3 activity, assessment opening, group sign-up and new announcements. Wimba Podcaster and Voice Board - Wimba allows staff and students to create and share their own podcasts. IVLE Communities have a voice-based discussion forum to facilitate communication. Centra Integration - Student groups doing their projects on IVLE have access to Centra, a virtual meeting tool that allows project group members to schedule and participate in meetings online. The virtual meeting tool will be launched through Exchange. Module - Sub-modules are now detachable from the main module. The duplicate module feature now allows the duplication of the Lesson Plan and the Workbin (structure only, without the files). Project - Project SMS announcements can be sent. FAQ - Readers can rate your FAQ using a star rating system. Workbin - The enhanced interface allows drag-and-drop upload for an unlimited number of files. Forum - Students are subscribed by default. Multimedia - Uploads are linked to the Module (this reduces the number of steps from the previous workflow). Class Roster - Option to receive Private Messages via the Class Roster. V8.0 May 2007 The 1 st.net version of IVLE. With much effort, IVLE 7 was converted to.net 2.0 platform to keep pace with technology and the need to incorporate web 2.0 services. All tools and resources were migrated over with the exception of communities. IVLE was integrated to Sharepoint and provided some additional services such as limited customisation of the interface. It was a painful process and staff and students were not happy with IVLE 8.0. System was slow and buggy.

4 V7.8 July 2006 IVLE 7.8 is an upgrade which introduces new features and enhances existing tools. Microsoft Live Communication Server technology has been integrated in this version. Some of the major enhancements were:- Module - Search by academic year option in internet and intranet search. Link to the Exam website from IVLE. Text & Readings - More options for unformatted text and readings and enhancements to Library Ereserves search and display. Module Blogs - The blogs allow for flexibility, openness and discoverability in online communication and interactions. My Community - More security options. File size limit increased to 30MB. LCS included in the members list. RSS - RSS feeds added to Announcement and Workbin tools. Project - Detailed reports. Option to display the user/group in the report. V7.7 December 2005 IVLE 7.7 is an upgrade which introduces new features and enhances existing tools. Microsoft Live Communication Server technology and NETg courses have been integrated in this version. Some of the major enhancements were:- Secure Assessment - Option to set up an online Secure Assessment using the Assessment tool. K:\drive - Application and management of module website integrated in IVLE. Online Presence - Users can see if other users are currently logged in to IVLE or logged in to specific tools using Microsoft Live Communication Server. Remember My Password - Option for NUS Internet users who access IVLE from a single computer to automatically log them in during each visit. My Community - Added to Staff Workspace to facilitate collaboration and communication. New Module Themes - More options for the module outlines. Search Enhancements - to the existing search function. Multimedia Webcast - Podcast enabled. Guests and non-course students can now be granted access to webcasts. My Organizer - Laboratory and tutorial timetables are now included. Project - Students can now sign up for multiple projects. Detailed project evaluation report template. Workbin - Enabled selective downloading of files. New folder access rights (lecturer-only access).

5 Workspace - Current semester week is now shown. What's New shows all module updates. Forum - Students can now save messages. Mobile IVLE - Cleaned up and upgraded to Version 2.0. NETg - Courses Integrated with IVLE to allow lecturers to selectively choose NETg courses to supplement their NUS modules.. and numerous enhancements to the existing tools and resources. V7.6 July 2005 For 7.6, IVLE has undergone changes to ensure consistency in interfaces, colour and words used. Checks for colour, correct words, and consistency of icons were done to ensure IVLE is easy to use and relevant. Programming workflows were also done to the assessment, project, forum and workbin tools. Closer integration to Library services, Digital Asset Management system and Marks Management system was also done. Some of the major enhancements were:- Class Management- Re-design the Class Management tool and improved the workflow to create class, project and tutorial groups. Class and project groups can now be created from tutorial groups. Student Photographs - working with Computer Centre to have all student photographs on database. Multimedia - Now incorporates more multimedia content. Besides streaming video, now students can access Breeze contents, NetG courses (through Learning Portal), webcast lectures and MP3 lectures. For this version, all single videos are converted to FLASH video. Work in progress to integrate to NUS Digital Asset Management System on Documentum. Assessment - New workflow to create assessment, additional reports to facilitate lecturers in evaluating students. Integration to NUS Integrated Marks Management System (IMMS). Forum - Improved interface on archiving of the forum and streamlining of archiving process. Workbin - Upgrade of the upload software and redesign of the workbin reporting features. A 150 days expiry limit for files have been set. GradeBook - Cleaned up for consistency and closer integration with IMMS Library e-reserves and Weblinks - Single signon with NUS Library Portal and integration to Library E-Reserves and weblinks. Library and NUS Co-op will be notified when a lecturer places a book in IVLE. RSS Reader - Interface improved with suggested RSS links now provided. Usage - More detailed students, guest and lecturer reporting

6 features. and many enhancements to the existing tools and resources. V7.5 December 2004 Faculty and students using IVLE will hopefully be pleasantly surprised with the changes done to IVLE. The first immediate impression that regular users to IVLE will notice is the character fonts and colours being changed to a more pastel look and feel. IVLE 7.5 underwent some major changes and enhancement to the tools and resources. Some of the major enhancements were :- Assessment - Better help facilities to show faculty what student will see when various assessment options are selected. We now have created a discrimination and difficulty index for questions. Forum - Better reporting features on student participation and posting. Improved interface on archiving of the forum. Workbin - Option to allow students to view your comments on their assignments. GradeBook - Importing of project groups and forum participation grading. My Organiser - More integrated to the tools on IVLE. Announcements and assignments due will now appear on the student's My Organiser. Library e-reserves - " Integration to Library Portal and the ability to view a file multiple times without downloading. LT Feedback - A facility to allow students to send feedback during a lecture. RSS Reader New and improved inline editor and many enhancements to the existing tools and resources. V7.4 July 2004 IVLE 7.4 introduced various enhancements to each tool and new features. These include: Multimedia - Multimedia toolkit has been enhanced to support and display all webcast channels and Breeze presentations. Staff now have only one point to access all their multimedia contents GradeBook - Staff may now feedback comments and marks to individual students directly by (not read by other students) on their cumulative postings into the Forum. Note:- The integration to the IMMS is being worked on. Workbin - Students submissions can now be commented (or graded) by the staff and returned by ed back to the

7 students with corrections, comments and mark inserted. Project (Peer Review) - Enables lecturers to create project topics, assign groups to topics and enable student to student evaluation of projects. A wizard to help the staff has been created. Module - A rating option for related module websites has been created. Staff can now rate which related websites are important, good, useful for their modules. Content - Staff and students can access "free" contents from other overseas sites. Staff will also see a list of their own consolidated contents. Services - All education technology services provided by NUS is now available in one location. These services include e-publishing, plagiarism support, instructional development, Breeze application, module website applications and access on computer-based training. NUS Events - Students can now browse the events by category and organization type. Users can now their favourite events details to their friends. Web Tutorials - The idea is to give a quick overview to new users and to help lecturers become productive quickly through our selfrunning demos on IVLE using viewlets. and many enhancements to the existing tools and resources. Enhancements made to existing functionalities are based on feedback from staff and student users. V7.3 December 2003 V7.2 July 2003 V7.0 June 2002 When lecturers log into their version 7 workspace, they cannot help but notice the new vibrant interface that is introduced. It maintains elements of the previous Workspace layout while at the same time providing greater clarity and easy of use. At the same time, they will be welcomed to IVLE with a pop-up window. This window provides links to some Flash movies and wizards. The idea is to give a quick overview to new users and to help lecturers become productive quickly. Apart from the feature rich functionalities already found in version 6, many new features have also been introduced: GradeBook - provides lecturers with a consolidated record of students' grades for activities online. Project tool - Enables lecturers to create project topics, assign groups to topics and even enable student to student evaluation of projects.

8 Learning Object - Lecturers can now register their contents based on the worldwide IMS specification. NUS Content Repository - Contents can be shared and reused throughout the NUS campus. Active Messaging - enables staff and student to communicate with their friends who are also in IVLE. Survey Tool - this stripped down version of the Assessment tool enable staff to setup online survey or survey questionnaire to be used for project evaluation. Wizards - empower lecturers to setup tools quickly through a set of easy to follow procedures. Enhancements made to existing functionalities are based on feedback from staff and student users. One good example would be the notification that staff would now receive when the IVLE tool which they setup is three days away from the closing date. As with most features in IVLE, the lecturer can decide to switch off this notification. V6.0 July 2001 This latest version of IVLE maintains the already familiar interface introduced in version 5.0 while at the same time extending on what was available. The biggest leap for the IVLE platform would be the introduction of professionally developed contents from international publishers like McGraw Hill and Thompson Learning. With just a few clicks, lecturers can now adopt such supplementary contents into the course. Lecturers can also register students from other institutions as guests to their courses through IVLE. This allows lecturers to potentially open up their classes to interactions with students from all over the world. Familiar tools like the assessment, webcast lecture and multimedia tool have also been reworked. Better graphical assessment reporting helps lecturers get a good picture of how students are progressing through the course. Improvements to the in-line editing components mean that equations and pictures can now be included easily. The image bank located at the Multimedia tool helps lecturers manage and reuse graphics for their course. The other features include interfaces for multilingual support, integrated whiteboard, personal to do list and events organiser and links to many important NUS resources. The student workspace include links to: Faculty specific student services Complete listing of all offered NUS modules Past year examination papers Library Instruction Online (LION) Library Integrated Catalogue (LINC) Digital Library collection

9 Skills Training Community Knowledge Resource V5.0 December 2000 This version of IVLE has been given a complete face lift. We've incorporated a more dynamic Workspace in which real-time information links to live lectures will be available dynamically. New tools added include Course Web Builder, Class Groups, Media Channels, Question Bank and Glossary. Other existing tools have been updated and improved upon. V4.0 June 2000 Part-customisation of workspace, consistent management screen for quiz, lecture plan, workbin and faq builder, project and peer support for workbin, tutorial group support, oracle integration, course mode timetable, improvements on course calendar and lecture plan interface, IMS course outline generator, course web site template, improvement on sitebrowser for notes publishing, link builder. V3.0 December 1999 Course centric workspace - all relevant courses appear on the workspace, course calendar, quiz management system - phase II, staff photographs, student personal , discussion forum improvements and launch of Open IVLE. V2.0 June 1999 Hardcopy and online user guide, new workspace interface, multiple read, write access to course outline, multi-lingual support, detailed lecture plan, new discussion forum and workbin features, frequently asked questions builder - phase II, class roster, enhanced course outline. V1.0 December 1998 Frequently asked questions builder - phase I, course outline template, discussion forum, chat room, quiz management system - phase I, class distribution list, digital media gallery.