As the year draws to a close I thought it would be fun to outline the progress we made on the EDU 2.0 site during 2010. The feature list is not complete - I left out a myriad of minor improvements that we typically roll out each week.
Compiling this list was an eye-opener to me - I had forgotten how much the site had changed in just a single year! We plan on making even more improvements in 2011 (I posted our initial 2011 roadmap a few days ago).
Jan
- Customizable home pages (blocks)
- Curricula & proficiencies
- iPhone support
- SSL login
- Passes 125,000 members
Feb
- Bronze premium plan introduced
- Foreign domain support
- Lots of performance tuning
- SMS integration
- SCORM support
Mar
- New quiz design
- Many district improvements
- Support for class templates
- Blackboard import (alpha)
- Support for certificates
- Ability to merge schools
- Passes 145,000 members
Apr
- New web site design (major upgrade)
- Display of online users
- LDAP
May
- New home page layouts w/ right-hand column
- Ability to see schools on a map
- Improved class catalog
- Login widget
- Improvements for translators
- Support for Swedish
- Passes 160,000 members
Jun
- Home page updates pt 1 w/ right-hand bar
- Added context-sensitive help
- Improved email invitations
- Communications monitoring
Jul
- News/Activity feeds
- Support for yearly plans
- Ecommerce option for charging for classes
- Passes 170,000 members
Aug
- Updated/unified search
- Added premium support forum
- Lesson flyout navigation
- Pop-up user information
- Custom shortcuts in left-bar
- Ability to launch SCORM in its own window
- Ability to transfer students between schools
- Doubled server capacity
- Passes 220,000 members
Sep
- Improved University support
- Color customization
- PDF receipts
- Class sign-off
- Updated groups
- Analytics
- Passes 250,000 members
Oct
- Pagination of people
- Calendar performance improvements
- Multi-currency support
- SCORM left-menu navigation
- Simpler class configuration
Nov
- Prerequisite and completion certificates
- Support paypal and purchase orders as payment method
- Better support for IE8
- Parent improvements
- Added group catalog
- Support for resending invitations
- Passes 275,000 members
Dec
- Pretty URLs
- Updated Help content
- Bulk class enroll
- Customization login instructions
- Upgraded Amazon infrastructure
- Passes 290,000 members
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