The ability to Generate an RSS feed from a Forum and/or generate an email notification of a new post in a thread would be a useful addition to the platform functionality.

Calendar access through RSS/webcal would allow the calendar to be opened on both calendar applications (e.g. iCal) and mobile devices (e.g. iPod and mobile phones). This feature is already embraced by one of itslearning's competitors (StudieWeb) and it would greatly enhance the user experience. Although the scheme was initially set up for iCal only, it is currently supported by most calendar applications and can be synced with windows mobile devices as well. For more information how to implement this, I - the brother of this user - would gladly help as an experienced programmer and I can be contacted at greatslovakia ['AT'] zoho ['.'] com.

There is much discussion out there in the bloggersphere and at conferences on eLearning that the VLE is dead and the future lies with PLEs. I have been looking at ways to aggregate the various learning activities I do each evening - using twitter, blogs etc.

What would be very useful on It's Learning would be to have a partially pre-populated learning page to act as a stimulus and prompt for learning. Students visit the page which is suitable for their year group and find there a small number of interesting web links that might explore. They can then also add their own links and perhaps add RSS feeds there too. Each week a student might return to this page to explore some more and add to their learning network. The technology already exists for this - it is very similar to an eportfolio but with stuff already there rather than a blank page. What would be needed would be another tab for this and ways to edit and manage it.

It would be convenient to be able to subscribe to alerts as an RSS feed instead of email/sms.