Itslearning.com iPhone Application
Posted by Adrian Sæther-larsen
on May 25, 2009 10:40 AM PDT
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iPhone is expanding widely, and with the amount of iPhone users just in Norway, it's safe to say that an Itslearning application would increase usabilty and visiting numbers. As I am a student myself, I would increase my visiting to my schools profile to catch up with the latest news available. Not just referring to general news about the school itself, but to see subjects and read information from there would be most likely a huge hit.
By going directly to itslearning.com with Safari on iPhone, the site is not functional at all and the Java experience itself is to heavy and the resolution used on the site is not watchable at all on the phone.
Several teachers on my school has an iPhone themself, and when I told them my idea they were excited and they saw that this is a potential to reach out to more students and teachers.
The SDK provided with the iPhone OS is easy if you set your mind to it, and a ITL portal on iPhone would not take that many hours. Services provided with the application could be:
- Read news
- Read subjects and see paper dues
- Calendar
- Messages
Doing task and delivering papers is a whole other case, and not needed, but when Gilde (Norwegian meat processing company) can make an application to give out recipies, ITL could make a portal for simple viewing.
A wish a good amount of people would like to see come to life.
Cleaner interface without frames and better overview
Posted by Tri m. Nguyen
on May 20, 2009 07:30 AM PDT
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The frames and the overload of code makes the page very heavy to load. The frames creates unnecessary scrollbars.
This idea has been spilt into several ideas.
The following idea can be voted upon at the new idea entry.
The course reports is OK, but wouldn't it be more perspicuous if the all the reports had its own overview. It'll be easier to review each course at the same time instead of having to enter each and every single course to get the reports and grades ++.
The following idea can be voted upon at the new idea entry.
And the notification should be done in a better way. It should tell exactly what's new/just updated. Maybe on the front page? So you don't have to enter each course just to see that there's a new message in the forum you don't follow.
Ability to download all files in a location as i.g. a zip file
Posted by Stian Blindheim
on May 20, 2009 06:07 AM PDT
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One thing I really miss from ClassFronter at UiB, is the ability to download all files in one location as a zip archive. On It'sLearning, we have to download one file at a time, which can be quite time consuming if there are many files in one location.
For example, here at HiST Fysioterapi, we have a large collection of articles in one of our courses (20 or so articles). All these articles are in PDF, and I want to download them so that I can view them offline on my mac. To do this, I will have to first hit the name of the article, and then the "download "filename.pdf". That will be 40 clikcs and a lot of work just to download them, when I instead could have hit a "download folder contents as zip archive" button and had them all instantly in my download location
Posted by Fredrik Hahn
on May 20, 2009 08:33 AM PDT
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As a user of GoogleCalendar, it would be very useful to be able to add the calendar from it's learning via iCal, instead of being forced to manually enter the entries from it's learning to GoogleCalendar. Naturally, iCal can be used by many other calendar softwares than GoogleCalendar.
This will lead to further compatibility for iPhones and Windows Mobiles since those can be synchronized the it's learning calendar by making an array e.g. through GoogleCalendar.
This feature is needed!
Drag and drop interface in folders
Posted by Eirik Vågeskar
on May 20, 2009 03:56 PM PDT
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Moving files in folders in It's learning is a mess. It would be better if the interface tried to mimick the drag and drop features of most modern GUIs. For instance, if I want to move a file to another folder, I want to drag it onto that folder. If I want to move it up one level, there should also be a quick way to do that (e.g. a "." folder).
Today, you have to specify files, then specify folders, then press enter. That takes about five times as much time as I would want to spend on it. This leads to more clutter, because people (teachers) are too lazy to clean them up.
Look to Google Docs for inspiration.
Posted by It's learning Design team
on Mar 26, 2009 06:21 AM PDT
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A lot of parents want to follow-up their children but to do this they need access to information from the school. A parent log in where the parents can get access to the childrens work, lesson plans, messages from the teachers, attandance data etc will give the parents ability to follow-up their children.
This feature could also be of relevance in other scenarios
Posted by Vegard Sivertsen
on May 23, 2009 12:34 PM PDT
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I would be nice if the calendar in it's learning could show lesson hours instead of clock hours. This is more natural for primary and secondary education
Posted by Vegard Sivertsen
on May 23, 2009 12:36 PM PDT
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Possibility to make an integration between the it's learning calendar and the time-table programme GP Untis
Posted by Tycho Schipper
on May 28, 2009 11:57 PM PDT
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When I give a workshop with limited acces ( e.g. 15 places on a school with several thousand students) it would be very helpfull if the students can register online for this workshop.
Until now, I haven't found an It's Learning tool that beats the good old "Paper-in-the-corridor-with-a-pen-attached-to-a-little-rope"
Posted by It's learning Design team
on Jun 26, 2009 04:32 AM PDT
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And the notification should be done in a better way. It should tell exactly what's new/just updated. Maybe on the front page? So you don't have to enter each course just to see that there's a new message in the forum you don't follow.
(This idea was posted by Tri m. Nguyen on 20 May with a couple of other ideas. It is important that each idea are posted seperatly.)