Thursday, December 21, 2006

Milestone 18 Highlights

StudyTag Milestone 18 had over 46 features and enhancements to the basic environment, 7 of the larger enhancements included:

1. Added a new check box setting to settings page for Premium Account: [x].
Accounts only have the "my students" menu selection if this box is checked.
Student accounts do not have this option.


FAMILY are all of the other students accounts under the same parent.
FRIENDS OF PARENT are people a parent makes thier personal friend.

2. Supported privacy settings "Full profile and trophies only visible to friends".

3. Supported privacy setting "Only Approved Members Visible."

4. Supported parental approved content setting "Only approved content is visible." If selected for a student then it only displays approved lessons and courses in searches for that student. Published lessons and groups created by friends and family are automatically approved (but not STAFF unless they have been added as a friend). Students cannot run unapproved lessons. A parent may selectively unapprove of a lesson that was automatically approved because it was certified.

5. Added course certification for Staff. When a course is certified, all of the lessons in the course are automatically certified. If a course is uncertified all of the lessons in that course are NOT UNCERTIFIED.

6. Supported parent/teacher Assign/Unassign pop-up for students. If a user has students then the "Assign | Unassign" menu selection displays a pop-up window so they can assign and unassign the lesson to their students.

7. Changed the menu item "Groups" to "Courses."

The next milestone will take some time, but it will have a major impact on how courses are created and used. After the next milestone we will be officially launching the site!