Graham Glass, etc.

EDU 2.0 2010 Statistics

For fun, I compiled a few EDU 2.0 2010 statistics:

• 3,000 new schools
• 170,000 new users
• 1,000,000 files in storage (200GB)
• 3,500,000 site visits
• 45,000,000 page views

It will be interesting to see how these numbers increase during 2011!

EDU 2.0 in 2010 - a reflection

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

Code stats update: EDU 2.0 vs. Moodle

About 3 months ago I did a comparison of EDU 2.0 lines of code vs. Moodle. Since then, we've added a ton of new functionality, including:

- major upgrades to groups
- improvements to e-commerce support
- support for prerequisite certificates and auto-awarding of certificates
- improvements to the class catalog
- improvements to calendars
- analytics for tracking lesson progress, assignment progress, etc.
- migration of our database to Amazon RDS
- significant upgrades to our online help

Here are the updated figures for our code base:
- 47,000 -> 49,000 lines of code (+4%)
- 858 -> 880 classes (+2%)
- 6192 -> 6410 methods (+3%)
- 7 -> 7 methods per class (same)
- 5 -> 5 lines per method (same)

So overall, the codebase went up by about 4%, which is tiny relative to the amount of functionality. This is mostly due to the modularization of the code base and the continuous refactoring that we apply to the existing code.

In contrast, Moodle 1.x is over 1,500,000 lines of PHP. I'm not sure what Moodle 2.0 weighs in at.

 

Great EDU 2.0 Review

Check out this great quote from a very complimentary review of EDU 2.0:

"I was in my quest to find online education tools when I stumbled upon Edu 2.0. After playing with it for a while, I think it’s safe to say that Edu 2.0 is by far the most complete online educational tool that I’ve come across."

Nice!!