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.

learningCloud 5.17 – Users tab for admins

A new screen has been created that allows the administrator to view all users on the platform and access the progress summary of each user.Nueva pantalla “Usuarios”

learningCloud 5.16.5 – New filter in the list of channels

New filter in the list of channels and sprints.

For all those customers with the Multiorganisation addon activated, a new filter has been added to allow searching for Sprints and channels within a catalogue.

New author field in the sprint list

A new field has been added in the sprint list to show who is the creator of the sprint.

Logo customisation in the student portal

With this functionality, learningCloud customers will be able to upload their own logo or image to learningCloud to be displayed in the learner portal.