Newfeatures
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Please explore the latest DB Primary features:
February 2012
- New Task Marking & Self Evaluation options: Smileys and Traffic Lights New
- Setting the community theme to 'Teacher' and using the file management hierarchy in a teacher themed community gallery New
- Embed Media directly from the gallery, mywork or your computer to a task, blog, or wiki page. New
- Create "Passports" for new users New
- Adding an email feedback form New
- Updates to the Task Markbook including a scrolling view New
- A new theme for your portal Login page - Starter+ Classic New
Website updates:
- Community Websites New
- Increasing the visibility of your website on a Google search New
- Adding an email feedback form New
Other recent features
December 2011
- Picture Login for younger or SEN pupils
- Fairytale style for starter homepages and communities
- Passwords auto-generated from a list of common words on account creation
- Spellcheck in the wiki area for teachers
- Ability to delete one or all instances of a recurring event
Website updates:
- New themes including the Uniform theme and Photo World theme
- Adding a slideshow to your webpages
- Define the number of entries to show in the website blog
October 2011
- A new 'Starter Plus' theme
- A more visual look for the starter calendar
- Extended calendar administration options
- Adding a picture or document gallery to your community pages
- A quicker way of adding pupils to communities
- Pupil-led learning logs or e-scrapbooks
- Teachers now have access to all pupil usage statistics
Website updates:
August 2011
- Bulk Management tool
- Alien Skins for starter communities and starter accounts
- View usage statistics for your school
- Changing the look of your login screen
- A new look Page Creator tool
- Integration with content providers Espresso
- Enhanced Email Monitor
- Notification of Files Awaiting Moderation
- Drag and drop files directly to the My Work and My Files area
- Exporting emails when transferring accounts
- Quick links to online help and support
- Restoring deleted files from community galleries and restoring deleted communities
June 2011
Task Tool:
- Task Markbook
- Attaching files to a task
- Embedding media in a task
- New Task Type 'Any File'
- Creating tasks for existing surveys
- Creating tasks for existing Quizzes
- Adding groups of users to a task after it has been setup
- A 'Mail All' task participants facility
- Providing a link to the task in 'Task Complete' confirmation email
- A 'repeat weekly' option for tasks
- Tasks can be saved for later completion
Staff Email:
- Creation of subfolders for all email folder types
- Sort the order of emails
- Importing and exporting email addresses
- Add addresses from email view fields, including CC field
- Search for addresses from 'Friends' as well as 'My Contacts'
Also:
- Adding skins to the wiki area
- Advanced options for surveys by clicking on cogs
- Advanced options for quizzes by clicking on cogs
Easter 2011
- New Staff Email
- Local Communities including Learning Logs and Parental Reporting
- Creating community types
- New Community Membership Rights
- Adding groups of members to a community and 'Dynamic Groups'
- Setting user access levels in communities
- Creating an archive of a community
- Creating a year-end rollover of a community
- Navigating pupil accounts in the Accounts view of the Administration area
- New Account type: Support Staff
- Glass 'Skin' for Teacher theme
- Blogs: adding 'categories' and receiving email notifications on new blog posts
February 2011
- Adding a blog to your community
- Easy Navigation Through User Accounts
- Adding custom links to the community navigation panel
- Accessing chat logs
- Reorder the position of your community navigation panel quicklinks
- Quick links to content providers from your communities
- Embedding video or audio located in the gallery or 'my work' areas into forum posts
- Embedding video or audio located in the gallery or 'my work' areas into your community pages
- Arranging icons on your homepage by type in the teacher theme
- Uploading files in bulk to the gallery or my work area and maintaining the folder hierarchy withs tags
Christmas 2010
- Chat tool for Improver theme communities
- New Skins for Improver theme communities and homepages
- Picture: advanced drawing tool for Improver users
- Advanced functionality for Improver Email including folder creation and auto-complete
- Starter Email enhancements including a more intuitive email creation steps and a draft email folder
- Content Integration from 'Just2easy': JIT for Infants and J2e for Junior Years
Autumn 2010
