We have added a new feature! The iLite Mobile Moodle now shows all the attempts made in a quiz and scows all the scores for all the attempts in a specific quiz.

As you can see in this image, this shows you all the courses that iLite Mobile Moodle has.

Select the course “French in Moodle”.

As depicted in this image, all the quizzes for “French in Moodle” are displayed.

Select the quiz “Basics”.

As you can see by the above image, there were two attempts on the quiz “Basics” with the date and the score.

- Kirsten

We have added to additional features to Mobile, they are My Profile and My Grades.

My Profile

Shows a list of your details, your name, User ID, email, city, country and when you first and last accessed the site.

My Grades

This shows a list of all the courses that you are registered for. When you select a course, it shows the quiz and the grade obtained for that quiz.

http://www.ilite.co.za/mlearn/ (mary, password)

Mobile is only available to clients who host with iLite. For more information please contact me and I will gladly assist.

- Kirsten

Visit iLite to download the 7 day trial version of the iLite Moodle Dashboard.

There are some funky new additions to the Dashboard which include the multi-lingual support, improved User search functionality and the Course Relationship Map.

The Course Relationship Map is something completely unique to the Dashboard. As you can see in the image below, we can see that the Course – iLite Dashboard, has 8 Users. We can also see that 5 of the 8 Users have a small (+) sign below them. This indicates that they are enrolled in other Courses. By clicking on the (+) sign, we expand a 3rd level, which shows the Courses that this User has enrolled for. Hover over the icon to view the Course name.

You may be wondering what is the purpose of the Relationship map, well it is to help you see what Courses the Users are doing at a glance. If a Course has prerequisites, you can view if they have been met simply by calling up the Relationship map.

- Kirsten

It is exciting times here at iLite. We have just finish developing the interface for the iPhone. What happens here is that this interface extracts your data from Moodle and allows you to view it on your iPhone.

Visit http://www.ilite.co.za/i/ to have a look at this component. Please play around and send any feedback or comments that you may have to me at kirsten@ilite.co.za

Username:  ian

Password:  password

- Kirsten

It’s time for another sneak preview of the Dashboard. We have been hard at work for several months now trying to make the Dashboard unique, interactive and visually stimulating. New features include a multi-lingual function and has provisions so far for 6 languages, which are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and German. We will look at adding more languages as we get closer to the release date.

Another new and exciting feature is the Degrafa graph inside the datagrid. This allows the scores to be more visually stimulating.  The courses that the user is enrolled for is also listed as well as their quiz results and the course interactivity.

-Kirsten

After a long process of development we are finally at a point where we can showcase a demo!

Log into http://www.ilite.co.za/eDash/#

User name:   james

Password: password

Remember guys, feedback is always welcome and appreciated.

- Kirsten

Time fly’s…Can you believe that we are heading into the middle on the first month of 2009. I thought to myself that I have all the time in the world to get down and write a paragraph or two about what is happening, and then I look again and the month is almost finished. I wonder to myself, how did that happen and where did all the time go too.

We ended 2008 off with a bang and are very happy with the results that iLite has achieved during the year. Now our focus shifts towards the new year and how we can make more of an impact and push ourselves further. We have a couple of projects that need to be completed within the first three months of this year. One of them being a new version of the iLite Moodle Dashboard.

We have been playing with various options for the iLite Moodle Dashboard for a while now, and seeing which way we would like to take the application. We know that our existing clients are due for an upgrade, and are eagerly awaiting the new version. So we have a deadline, and hopefully the project plan runs smoothly and we are ready to roll version 2 out the door.

Wazzok is another project that needs to come to an end now. Sean has been building this site since the end of December and it has taken a lot of energy, endurance and perserverance on his part to roll this one out. We are hoping to have this one done by the end of January at the latest and hopefully pursuing more avenues that this project will deliver.

For me, the beginning of a new year entails the start of a busy season. Yes its tax time again, and I will need to get everything sorted out so that we can start off the new financial year on a positive note.

What makes this time of year even more interesting, is that we only have about 70 days until the start of the formula one season and a very important decision needs to be made regarding our progress forward with our signature Mobile Application. We will be putting together a mobile version of the F1 application, but this year we are taking a different approach.  We are going to let loose an application that is not a Flash Application, but rather a PHP based application/website that can be used by all Mobile users and not just the Symbian devices that we usually develop for.

This is an interesting time at iLite and I will be posting blogs on upcoming events as the transpire. So stay tuned and you will be amazed at all that we accomplish in 2009. I hope that you are as excited about the prospects that this year will bring as we at iLite are.

-Kirsten

Just a link I come across from the eLearning Guild.

“Guild eBooks are FREE for everyone and Guild membership is not required to access them. We currently have 8 eBooks available… “

Go check it out

Sean

Have you ever wondered how the LMS you have chosen stacks up against the competition? Maybe you are thinking of investing time and/or money in an LMS. How would you choose one?

Would you:

1. Look at demo’s
2. Listen to a sales pitch
3. Go with something commercial
4. Phone a friend

What ever route you take does not matter. At the end of the day you will second guess your choice. Trust me, you will. I have work with Docent, IBM LearningSpace, Moodle, KEWL, and a bunch of others. The other day I came across a question in LinkedIn, where the person asked what you should look for when choosing a LMS.

Tricky question I think. Do you go with what’s popular, and adapt it to meet your needs, or do you go for a best fit, even if it’s not well supported.

This is what I answered:

1. How is it to install, maintain and upgrade the LMS
2. How much support is there in the global community for the LMS
3. How easy is the User and Course administration
4. How well is the course content presented
5. How good is the reporting on User progress and scores

Something I would add at this point is, how easy is it to backup and restore a course. Lets not even discuss the issue of off-line courses. But, coming back to your choice of LMS. I used Google Trends to have a look at how some of the LMS’s measure up.

Commercial LMS

Opensource LMS

Opensource vs Commercial

I have linked the images to Google Trends, for those who would like more information. One last trend that I am including is one about authoring tools. Many LMS’s come with their own default authoring tool, but they are often not up to much. You will invariably want to build content using a third-party application like Authorware, Toolbook or Captivate. I have a personal preference for Flash, but did not include it in the measure. I also accept that you can use Dreamweaver to build SCORM content. Flash and Dreamweaver are so widely used that I was afraid they would not give a true reflection.

Authoring tools

Let me know if you are using something else. Maybe I have this all twisted.

Sean