learningCloud 4.5.5 – Pathways with stages

As an administrator

The Pathways tool allows the creation of training itineraries by establishing blocks between Sprints to determine prerequisites between training content. From version 4.5.5 stages are established within Pathways.

Establishing stages allows to divide the training content and establish more flexible learning paths. Within each stage, at least one Sprint is required and there can be as many Sprints as we want. Stages establish blocks between each other. If you want to advance to the next stage you must have done (and completed) all Sprints marked as required in the previous stage.

In each stage there is no mandatory order for the completion of Sprints. Sprints can be performed in any order, only the order “recommended” by the administrator when establishing the list of Sprints will be part of a stage.

To change the order of the Sprints, simply drag & drop the Sprints to the desired position.

The Pathway may or may not have an associated badge that would be assigned after the Pathway is completed. If the requirements change during the process, i.e. if we increase the number of required Sprints or decrease the progress of the Pathway is calculated dynamically so that only students who have not completed the Pathway are affected.

As a student

A student when accessing their Pathway will see those Sprints belonging to the same stage unlocked and those belonging to a subsequent stage blocked.

As the students complete the Sprints, the next stages will be unlocked.

Students can view their progress and the Pathway badges any time.

One of the improvements introduced in this new release is that Sprints that belong to a pathway and are blocked, although they appear on the carousels, cannot be accessed.

Learning Cloud LMS 5.29

On thursday, March 23, LearningCloud team will release 5.29 version

NEW FEATURE

See training URL on QR view: from this release, the administrators could view and copy the training url to share it with any user with access to the training.

Learning Cloud Author 1.56

On Thursday 15th March​​​​​​​, a new version of LearningCloud Author (v1.56) will be released. It includes several enhancements:

• A new type of activity is available: Drag over image.
• Feedback can be displayed depending on the score obtained in a questionnaire.
• It is now possible to change the size of a word or a sentence in a particular text.
• When exporting texts in XLIFF format to send for translation, it is possible to exclude texts from the templates and symbols of pre-packaged structures in the theme.
• You can indicate at what point in the video the learner is considered to have completed the video, so that it is not necessary for the learner to watch the end credits.
• New action for buttons: It is possible to reset the learner’s progress in the content: videos and audios go back to the second zero of playback, the time spent for completing time-limited quizzes goes back to 0, etc.

In addition, the latest updates of the authoring module (maker) have been incorporated, along with other small improvements, internal functionalities and some bugs have been fixed.

Learning Cloud 5.28 & Learning Cloud 6

On Wednesday, 7 March, LearningCloud team rolls out Release 5.28 and Release 6 (new learner portal)

NEW FEATURES 

• New carousel “Keep learning”: All those customers who have the new learner portal, will enjoy, from this release, a new carousel called “Keep learning”. In this carousel, the sprints that the user has started and has not finished will appear, with the aim of being able to quickly return to the point where they were in their training process.

contentCloud 1.28 – What’s new in Tokyo, Berlin and Vienna templates

We have incorporated in these templates various improvements and changes that you will be interested in:

Tokyo:

• Repeat wallpaper. Now you can add a background image on the screens and decide if it is background is displayed at 100% of its size or if it is displayed to its original size and repeated as many times as necessary to occupy the entire screen. Learn more.
• New properties in the “Flipable Image”. Now you have a new “Custom” view that will allow you to customize the colors and background image of the component, its border, its front and its back. Learn more.
• New “Image Response” activity. Have your students have to locate the correct areas on an image. Learn more.

Berlin:

• New “Code” component. If you want to do programming training, you can now easily do so with the “Code” component. You’ll be able to incorporate code from different programming languages to teach your students how to program. Learn more.
• New “Parallax” component,which will allow you to add images to fullscreen and that will act as dividing elements. Learn more.
• New “Reinforcement Activity” component. Now you can add activities throughout the unit that won’t be considered for scoring but will be interesting to reinforce the student’s knowledge. Learn more.
• New view of the “Image Gallery” component. This new view will allow you to add a graphic background to the entire gallery and decide the position of the images inside (right, left, center…). Learn more.
• Time counter in questionnaires. You can now add a timer or countdown to your quizzes. Learn more.
• New “Image Response” activity. Have your students have to locate the correct areas on an image. Learn more.
• New “Drawing” activity. Allow your students to do free drawing activities so they can see what the correct solution would have been. Learn more.

Vienna

• Customize the background of all pages. You can now customize the background of all pages, including the cover, by setting a different color to each or a custom background image. Learn more.

Learning Cloud Author 1.55

On Thursday 23th February​​​​​​​, a new version of Learning Cloud Author 1.55 will be released. It includes several enhancements:

• Editing is smoother, especially when working with text.
• Content loads faster, both when previewing and when launched from the LMS.
• Publication packaging takes less time to generate.
• It is possible to add conditions to enable and disable page forward and page back buttons.
• It is easier to assign values to design properties using the keyboard.
• In the “easy” editing mode it is no longer possible to add pages, pop-ups and blank notifications.
• It is possible to open several unit pages in different tabs by using the combination “Ctrl + click” (in list mode view).
• The design of the external units page has been adapted.
• The creation of authoring units from Word documents has been adapted for integration into the theme selector.
• The xAPI packages include metadata with information on the tool with which they have been created, and various identifiers

In addition, the latest updates of the authoring module (maker) have been incorporated, along with other small improvements, internal functionalities and some bugs have been fixed.

Learning Cloud 5.27

On Wednesday, 22 February, the LearningCloud team rolls out Release 5.27 

NEW FEATURES ​​​​​​​

• New languages: from this release, the platform will have new languages such as Bulgarian, Slovenian and Hungarian.

• Increase in the number of carousels: given the great reception of the carousel configurator among our customers, we have decided to increase to twelve the number of carousels that each customer can create to organise their training.

learningCloud 5.18.1 – Information about validations

On 28 September we will deploy learningCloud 5.18.1, whose most important new features are:

Information about validations in the progress summary report and in the user progress detail.

These reports will now show validated status for those users who have completed other trainings of the same sprint and have therefore been validated in this training.

Inactive users.

From this version onwards, the progress of all active users and inactive users who completed the training (or were validated) will be shown in the progress summary report.

learningCloud 5.18 – Setting pre-requisites (milestones) between sprints within a channel

On 14 September we will deploy the new version of learningCloud (5.18) whose most important new features are:

Setting pre-requisites (milestones) between sprints within a channel

Until this version, navigation between stages of a channel was sequential. A user had to complete all the required sprints of a stage before moving on to the next one. From this version onwards, the channel author can customise the navigation and set the pre-requisites for each sprint. For example, for the second sprint of stage 2, he could set as a pre-requisite:

• Complete all the sprints in stage 1
• Complete some sprints on stage 1
• Complete the previous sprints in stage 2
• No prerequisites

From this version onwards, sequential navigation will no longer be enabled by default but all channels created before this version will keep the previous behaviour, i.e. a user must complete all required sprints of a stage before moving on to the next one.

If you create a new channel, don’t forget to set the pre-requisites.

learningCloud 5.17.1 – Validation at the training level and new author filter.

Validation at training level

Until now, if a user was enrolled in a sprint or channel training that they had previously completed, the platform automatically validated the enrolment in the new training and the user did not need to complete it again.

Now administrators and group administrators can decide, when creating a new training, whether it is validatable or not. The default behaviour will be the current one (it will be validatable) but they will be able to change this behaviour so that users who register for this new training will have to complete it again.

In many occasions an employee must re-complete a training to obtain an annual certification. In this type of scenario it is necessary to deactivate the option “validations” in the training.

Filtering by author in the sprints and channels list

We have added a new filter in the screen that shows the list of sprints and in the screen that shows the list of channels to allow filtering by author.

This way it is possible to display all the sprints or channels that have been created by a specific author.