We have a large number of EDU 2.0 upgrades planned for the summer vacation, and we started by adding sections for announcements, notifications, today's events, to-do list and upcoming events to each user's home page. This provides them with a nice dashboard-view of important items.
The tricky part is to add all these additional features without it slowing the system down. Thankfully, due to a bunch of caching techniques, the new version of the home page is actually *faster* than the old, less-useful version.
Next up is a set of Facebook-like news feeds, nicely integrated with the existing blog and forum features.
Here's a picture of a new user home page:
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