New feature for sticky notes

Feedback from some of our recent meetings with schools has asked for the ability to create sticky notes with an optional expiry date. We are pleased to confirm that this ability will be added within the next day on our platform.

Users will be able to create notes from themselves, others - and groups of users and to allow the note to expire on a given date!

All existing schools will receive this update within the next 24 hours.

New instruction manuals

Three days ahead of schedule, the new replacement manuals are now online and immediately available from the help menu of your learning platforms.

They include all the latest features and updates for the v13.1 patch which was applied on 17th August. Our support line is also available during the school term break for any users assembling content and courses.

Our next major update will be in mid-November with the release of v14, entitled "Graphium". Invitations will be sent to all clients in the September term asking users to identify feature requests and ideas.

Upgrade information

A large update was applied to all client users of the My Learning Suite v13. Please find details of v13.1 notes:

•    NEW: Improved support for uploaded files of unusual and varying formats
•    NEW: You can now upload new files whilst editing an existing document
•    NEW: An enhanced homepage lists your to-do list in a better way
•    NEW: When creating notes, you can specify a validity period
•    NEW: Support for the embedding of Youtube and many other media types
•    NEW: Initial implementation of schools linking with other schools
•    NEW: Assistance for users on what QR Codes are, and how to learn more
•    NEW: Realtime transcoding of media files into web formats
•    NEW: Teachers can now create their own course modules to point to websites
•    NEW: Teachers can now write to entire Class Groups and Learning Spaces
•    NEW: A new upload guardian will detect users trying to upload viruses
•    NEW: Improved summary screen for regular users
•    NEW: An enhanced to-do list for new users of the system
•    NEW: Copy and paste files using the new file clipboard
•    NEW: Teachers can now send video popups
•    NEW: Users can now upload new files whilst directly editing a file
•    FIX: Improvements to many data lists and table displays
•    FIX: You can now create messages to learning spaces and class groups
•    FIX: Blogging tool has been enhanced in the course manager
•    FIX: Improvements to learning routes and importing documents
•    FIX: A handful of minor display bugs were found, and squashed.
•    FIX: Files copied using the clipboard are now editable in the document editor
•    FIX: Overhaul of improved support for Internet Explorer 8 (and upcoming 9)
•    FIX: When creating messages, leaving the subject blank would lose your message
•    FIX: Unable to edit your title from your user information page
•    FIX: When creating courses, your name would not honour your formal/informal setting
•    FIX: Lists of students and teachers now have less detail, and show more entries per screen

New updates for 17th August

My Learning staff have been taking advantage of the UK school holiday period to accelerate their updates to our innovative learning platform:- My Learning Suite.

17th August will see a number of new features and upgrades being applied to all our clients. These micro-patches will provide subtle enhancements to popular tasks and include over 30 new updates.

You can now embed 3rd party videos and content directly into the learning platform, and we support nearly all of the popular video sharing websites. More details will be announced on August 18th.

Transcoding now released

Say goodbye to incompatible files! My Learning have released their built-in file converter to all schools.

What is "Transcoding".

Transcoding is the process of changing the format of a specified file from one format to another. It can be useful when you wish to make files more compatible with other systems. For example, an AVI (video) file which runs for 5 minutes may be 100mb in size. By transcoding a file from an AVI to an FLV (web format), the size of the file will be reduced dramatically. This represents a massive reduction in file size, and bandwidth. It also means that the file will be more web compatible.

File type support

Videos
AVI, MOV, MPEG and MPG files will be converted to FLV

Images
GIF, TIF, PSD, EPS, SVG and BMP files are converted to JPG

Audio
WAV and WMA files are converted to MP3

Please note that if this facility is enabled, it will be in effect for all users of the system. We recommend activating the transcode feature for users with lots of files who wish to create their own content. A short delay is experienced when a file is uploaded, whilst the material is transcoded.

Improvements and additions

We have been busy recently adding features requests from users to our range of learning platforms. See below for a few of the additions:

•  NEW: Teachers can now write to entire Class Groups and Learning Spaces
•  NEW: A new upload guardian will detect users trying to upload viruses
•  NEW: Improved summary screen for regular users
•  NEW: An enhanced to-do list for new users of the system
•  NEW: Copy and paste files using the new file clipboard
•  NEW: Teachers can now send video popups
•  NEW: Users can now upload new files whilst directly editing a file
•  FIX: A handful of minor display bugs were found, and squashed.
•  FIX: Overhaul of improved support for Internet Explorer 8 (and upcoming 9)
•  FIX: When creating messages, leaving the subject blank would lose your message
•  FIX: Unable to edit your title from your user information page
•  FIX: When creating courses, your name would not honour your formal/informal setting
•  FIX: Lists of students and teachers now have less detail, and show more entries per screen