2. EQUELLA Product Strategy and Development
Simon Wilkinson
Director of Product Management
Jennifer Seidenwurm
Product Manager
Cath Fitzgerald

3. Agenda Product Direction Demo EQUELLA 6.1 Product Initiatives
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4. Product Direction Overview

5. Product Direction Overview

6. Product Direction Product Themes
Standards Support
Learning Tools Interoperability Standard
LTI provider 1.1 (EQUELLA 6.1)
LTI consumer compliant 1.1 (EQUELLA 6.2)
Utilising LIS standard for grade book integration (EQUELLA 6.2)

7. CORE Application features
Product Direction
Product Themes
CORE Application features
Metadata Utility – now provides users with the ability to bulk modify the metadata of resources in EQUELLA (EQUELLA 6.1)
User experience (UX) (All releases)
Access controls – We can now generate permissions dynamically from Metadata in the system based on user/group/role (EQUELLA 6.1)

8. CORE Application features
Product Direction
Product Themes
CORE Application features
We now support additional metadata harvesting standards – SHEX/MEX – Sharing Exchange and Metadata Exchange (EQUELLA 6.1)
Searching – We have added features to improve the power of our searching and the usability of the management of results (EQUELLA 6.2)

9. CORE Application features
Product Direction
Product Themes
CORE Application features
We are looking at improving the reporting functionality of our application:
SEER integration
Reporting APIs
Separate reporting Database

10. Product Direction Product Themes
Integration Support
We have a new integration experience that currently works on Moodle, Blackboard and Fronter (EQUELLA 6.1). We are looking to extend the supported (and tested) list LMS vendors. It includes:
DnD functionality
Less clicks

11. Product Direction Product Themes
Integration Support
We now have a plug-in framework for including additional plug-ins into TinyMCE (EQUELLA 6.1).

12. Product Direction Product Themes
Integration Support
Support for Echo360 – Lecture capture solution (EQUELLA 6.1)
“Echos” are contributed automatically to EQUELLA.
“Echos” are tagged with metadata and linked back to the Echo360 platform

13. Interactive Assessment
Product Direction
Product Themes
Interactive Assessment
We are looking at including support for interactive assessments (EQUELLA 6.2):
Question and Test Interoperability (QTI 2.x)
SCORM tracking – Integration with Icodeon
Grade book integration

14. Product Direction Product Themes
REST Services
In order to continue to extend EQUELLA and allow for rich integrations with third party tools and applications we see the continued extension of our services framework (REST) as being crucial to this success.
Administration APIs
User Experience APIs
Reporting APIs

15. Product Direction Product Themes
Client Java Support
The Removal of Java will dovetail with the extension of our REST services to allow for an Administration console to be rebuilt in EQUELLA.
We have already started to move functionality away from Java by implementing HTML5 replacements for some of the key controls.
This is inline with our mobile strategy and our general move to reduce technical overhead.

16. EQUELLA 6.1 User Experience (UX) enhancements
General UX enhancements
View attachments from the search results page
View thumbnails from results/summary pages
Bulk clear notifications
Multiple file drag and drop functionality in the file uploader
Floating Save button and components in the contribution wizard
Full-width portlets
Group and role selector wizard controls
Previous and Next buttons on Resource summary page

17. EQUELLA 6.1 User Experience (UX) enhancements
HTML Editor
Third party plug-in ready – tested and certified with:
After the deadline
ICE
WIRIS
Additional options for HTML Editor configuration:
Perform advanced editor customisations
Edit the CSS file to add styles to the HTML Editor
Add or remove buttons from the HTML Editor toolbar
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18. EQUELLA 6.1 Core enhancements
Bulk metadata management
Find and replace
Set text
Add node
Execute script
Comment identity options
Configure the identity shown when comments are added
Dynamic metadata ACLs
Enable the creation of permissions dynamically, based on User, Group or Role Ids stored in the resource metadata
HTML5 Player

19. EQUELLA 6.1 Integration enhancements
Echo360 integration
Directly publish Echos into EQUELLA
Harvester enhancements
SHEX (Sharing Exchange) and MEX (Metadata Exchange)
Ability to select source update behaviour
LMS integration screen
Drag and drop capability
Ability to view and select attachments from the results page
Browse capability
Ability to add resources to multiple course sections in one selection session

20. Customer engagement initiatives
The EQUELLA Product team is seeking to engage more effectively with our clients and partners. Some of our initiatives are:
yourEQUELLA - the website that allows clients and partners to enter, vote and comment on feature requests.
Focus groups - topic-specific forums for both consultants and clients to discuss their requirements, and contribute ideas for EQUELLA’s future direction.
Beta program - enables our users to test and provide feedback on features prior to release.
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21. Product Group initiatives yourEQUELLA
Launched March 2013
91 client registrations
198 feature requests
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22. Product Group initiatives Focus groups
Ongoing Customer Engagement Initiative
Feedback will help us prioritise features for future releases
Consultants and Clients - All Regions
First series - 6 topics:
Workflow
Reporting
Assessment
Integration
Copyright/CAL/Licensing
Content Exchange
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23. Product Group initiatives Beta program
6.0 Beta - 35 Signups, 10 Participants
8 clients (7 from Australia, 1 from NA)
2 EQUELLA consultants (1 from Australia, 1 from NA)
6.1 Beta - 32 Signups
Phase 1: 16 Participants
9 clients (6 from Australia, 3 from NA),
7 consultants (6 from NA, 1 from Australia)
Phase 2: 11 Participants
6 Clients (4 from Australia, 2 from NA)
5 Consultants (all from NA)
6.2 Beta - Coming Soon!
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