Version 18.1

Refurbishing UX/UI

Mobile apps:

Homepage: 

• Presentation optimizations
• New section "My training courses", which presents the training courses the learner is following (started, but not finished)

Profile page:

• New presentation
• Access to the list and description of badges unlocked and to be unlocked on started training courses
• Direct access to the training course from the list of badges of this training course

Side menu:

• Fusion of "Catalog" and "Search" features in "Catalog"
• Deleting the page "Training path"

Webapp :

• Complete redesign
• Disappearance of the home banner and the included menu
• Setting up a vertical menu on the left of the screen
• Redesign of pages: homepage, training course, ranking, training activities (compared to 17.4), profile.

SUSHI GAME

New association activity, it allows to assign a list of words or images to their respective categories (2 or 3 categories). Fully customizable graphically.

Compatibility Badge, Score, Shake'n'Learn: yes
Live! : Yes
Usable media: images (.jpg, .png)
A correct answer reports a point - A wrong answer removes a point

BRAINSTORMING

Compatibility Badge, Score, Shake'n'Learn: no
Live! : exclusively
Usable media: no
Webapp compatibility: yes

Template activities allowing the author to prepare the questions

Mission Center: Live interface! so that the trainer can:

Before the activity

• choose the question
• choose the response time (unlimited, 1, 2, 3 or 5 minutes)
• launch of the activity
• manual stop of the activity

After the activity

• display the learners' proposals sorted by "likes"
• manually add / delete proposals
• consult the activity report

Mobile / web activity:

• addition of proposals
• deletion of proposals (done by oneself)
• "like" proposals from other learners

"RIGHT-TO-LEFT" LANGUAGES

Support for right-to-left languages (eg Arabic, Hebrew), only in training activities contents. Right-to-left languages are not yet supported in the App interface or in communications.

CUSTOMIZATION OF THE HOMEPAGE

Communications:

• List the available communications in the home banner for the learner
• Access a given communication (access to the standard screen of the article, or access to the standard screen of the training course or opening of the link)
• Go to the standard screen of the learner's wall

Profile:

• List basic information of the learner profile
• Go to the standard screen of the learner profile

Shake'n'Learn:

• Whether or not the learner has access to at least one Shake'n'Learn activity
• Launch the Shake'n'Learn action

Others:

Access the following information

• Server version
• Version of the application
• learner's email
• first name of the learner
• name of the learner
• language chosen by the learner
• unique identifier of the learner
• learner login
• version of the operating system running the App
• learner custom fields (metadata)

WEB ACTIVITIES

General

It is now possible to create learning activities in HTML/CSS/JS: video games, augmented reality, virtual reality ...

To know:

• the web activity is downloaded to the Mobile App along with the training course that contains it
• the web activity is playable offline, provided that it does not refer to a link to content hosted on the Internet (a streaming video, for example)
• the data generated by the web activity (score, time, progress ...) are stored locally on the phone until an internet connection is available to be sent to the Mission Center

SCORM compatibility

Web activities support the SCORM 1.2 and 2004 formats and manage time, progress, score and success. Here are the details of the variables supported by Teach on Mars:

SCORM 1.2 :

• Data written by the content:
• cmi.core.session_time
• cmi.core.lesson_status
• cmi.core.lesson_location
• cmi.suspend_data
• cmi.core.score_min
• cmi.core.score_max
• cmi.core.score_raw

Data read by the content:

• cmi.core.total_time
• cmi.core.lesson_mode
• cmi.core.student_id
• cmi.core.student_name
• cmi.core.lesson_location
• cmi.suspend_data

SCORM 2004 :

Data written by the content:

• cmi.session_time
• cmi.success_status
• cmi.completion_status
• cmi.location
• cmi.suspend_data
• cmi.score_min
• cmi.score_max
• cmi.score_raw
• cmi.score_scaled
• cmi.progress_measure

Data read by the content:

• cmi.total_time
• cmi.mode
• cmi.learner_id
• cmi.learner_name
• cmi.location
• cmi.suspend_data
• cmi.progress_measure

Teach on Mars JS Library

Teach on Mars implements its own JavaScript library that allows the web activities you create to interact with the App.

The library can handle the following variables for reading and writing:

• time
• progress
• success
• score
• points
• "suspendData"

It also provides access to the following information:

• Server version
• Version of the application
• learner's email
• first name of the learner
• name of the learner
• language chosen by the learner
• unique identifier of the learner
• learner login
• version of the operating system running the App
• learner custom fields (metadata)

Finally, it allows the following actions:

1. disable the sleep mode of the phone
2. reactivate the sleep mode of the phone
3. closing the web activity

NEW STATISTICS

General

Moving the content of the "Training courses reports" page to a "Reports" page, available in the "Training courses" section

Homepage > Instant penetration rate:

• Funnel format
• Filterable by: training category, user custom fields.
• Displays:
• Number of registered learners
• Number of learners having started at least one training course
• Number of learners having completed at least one training course

Home page > Historical penetration rate (in evolution over the period):

• Linear format
• Filterable by: training category, custom user fields, period.
• Can be displayed in absolute value or in percentage.
• Adaptive scale (depending on the period selected, the information will be displayed by day, week or month).
• Displays: 
• Number of registered learners
• Number of learners having started at least one training course
• Number of learners having completed at least one training course

Homepage > Historical Retention:

• Diagram format (configurable period)
• Filterable by: Training Category, User Custom Field, Period.
• Displays:
• Number of new learners (learners connecting for the first time)
• Number of coming back learners (learners who have already connected at least once in the past)
• Percentage of learners coming back every day compared to the number of learners connected

Training courses > Reports > State of your training courses :

• Not filterable
• Displays, in absolute value, the training courses number:
• total
• never published
• published but accessible to no learner (ie no access rules have be created on this training course)
• published

Training courses > Reports > Average of training courses for learners:

• Filterable by:training course category, learner custom field
• In absolute value, displays on average per learner his/her number of training courses:
• accessibles
• not yet started (the training course is accessible but no time has been sent)
• started (the training course is accessible, time has been sent, but progress is not at 100%)
• finished (the training course has been completed)

Training courses > Reports > Top / Flop tables:

• Filterable by: training course category, learner custom field
• Indicators of the 5 best / 5 worst training courses in terms of average time, average progress, rate of deployment
• Historically present on the "Training Reports" page and now moved to this page.

Training courses > Rankings > Most popular training courses:

• Filterable by: training course category, learner custom field, period
• Displays the ranking of the 20 best training courses according to 3 criteria
• Number of learners having started the training course
• Number of learners having completed the training course
• Time spent in the training course
• The first 3 are displayed in podium format
• The 20 training courses are then displayed in diagram format

Training courses > Rankings > Rankings per custom field:

• Filterable by: training course category, learner custom field, period
• For a given custom field (for example, the country), it is possible to know the ranking of user groups according to 3 criteria:
• Number of training courses started for all learners (eg France 156, UK 122, Germany 98)
• Number of completed training courses for all learners (eg Germany 92, UK 88, France 33)
• Total time spent in training courses for all learners (eg Germany 30h, UK 27h, France 9h)
• The first 3 are displayed in podium format

Learners > Rankings > Learners top 20:

• Filterable by: user custom field, period
• Displays the top 20 learners, according to the following criteria:
• Number of points obtained
• Time spent
• Number of started training courses
• Number of completed training courses
• The first 3 are displayed in podium format
• The 20 learners are then displayed in diagram format

Communications > Reports > Social networks, key figures:

• Filterable by: user custom field, period
• Adaptative scale (depending on the period selected, the information will be displayed by day, week or month).
• Displays :
• Number of Likes
• Number of Shares
• Number of Communications
• Number of total Likes over the period
• Number of total Shares over the period

Communications > Learners ranking > Most active learners:

• Filterable by: user custom field, period
• Displays the 20 most active learners on the Wall,according to the following criteria:
• Number of Likes
• Number of Shares
• The first 3 are displayed in podium format
• The 20 learners are then displayed in diagram format

NEW AUTHORING INTERFACE

• Reordering and redesigning items on the page for clarity
• Options (badges and certification) and information (Title, keywords, description) directly available on the authoring page
• Display of the activities number per module
• Proposal of an update message when creating a test version

AND ALSO...

Application side:

• Possibility of a fourth answer in the Quiz Game (necessary columns added in the activity template )
• Ability to activate the correction mode in the challenges. At the end of your game, you can consult the expected answers.
• The SAML connection can now be done in an external browser (not just in the App Browser)

The user can take advantage of his/her current SAML session without having to log in again to access the App.

Mission Center side:

When creating a manager, it is now possible to give him/her access to one or more categories. Once logged in, he/she sees only the categories to which access has been given, and those containing the training courses to which he/she has been given access.

A manager can now (if he/she has this right) create other managers accounts, and assign them rights (within the limits of his/her own rights).

Improved search engine for training courses (full text, title and reference code search, translation) and learners (full text, name search, first name, e-mail, login).

For a given communication, the administrator can activate separately the options "Share" and "Like", for a better control.