A range of additional lookup facilities (‘Student’, ‘Activity’ and ‘Result’) are available from within the Grid view.

This new grid can significantly reduce the time it takes to enter student results.

H.O.D Activity Management
This new facility allows Heads of Departments to access all assessment criteria for all subjects within their department. This applies to activities that have been setup to utilise TASS.web objectives. This tool gives HODs greater control over mandatory assessment material for the subjects that they are responsible for.

If you have been defined as a Head of Department in the TASS.web Student Administration System, you will now have access to the other subjects and classes in your department for selection when nominating criterion for Activities in eduKate.

Student Photos
Student Photo’s are now available from the assessment area of eduKate. Now, when drilling down into the student ‘Assess Activity’ screen you will be presented with a photo of your nominated student.

Student Photos are also available using the toolbar icon in the new ‘Activity Assessment Grid’.

H.O.D Activity Assignment – Class Teacher Responsibility
The new ‘Class Teacher Responsibility Flag’ allows you to assign an activity across multiple classes and automatically make the assessment process the responsibility of the appropriate teacher.

If you have been defined as a Head of Department in the TASS.web Student Administration System, you will now have the ability to assign the assessment responsibility to a teacher within your department with one mouse click.

Statistics
Learning Object statistics have been added to the ‘Administration Console’ view of eduKate. This new console area will allow you to retrieve and analyse usage statistics of the eduKate application at your school.

Various filters exist to analyse your Learning Object data by Resource Type, Faculty, Year Level and individual Staff members.

Enhancement to TASS® Objective Integration
To make it easier when assigning activities to classes, eduKate now checks which classes the objectives have been applied to in TASS. Only the classes that belong to the TASS Objectives you have used when setting up the activity will be available.

This means that it is less confusing and it reduces the chance of mistakes being made.

Enhancements to Activity Views
Additional information has been added to the ‘Activity View’ and ‘Usage View’ including TASS® Subject, Year Group and Class and the name of the teacher who has Assessment Responsibility.

‘Activity View’ icons have also been added to the ‘Assignment’ screens to provide you with important information whilst allocating activities to your students.

Sequenced Activities

eduKate now offers staff users the option to assign activities in a sequence. Multiple Activities can be assigned as a sequence to a class, user or group. Each Activity in the sequence must be completed in order, with the next Activity in the sequence assigned automatically once the previous has been completed.


Assessment Grid Export

A new ‘Export to CSV’ function is now available in the Assessment Grid (Class and Student views) allowing staff users to export completed student assessments by class and individual student results, to an Excel format. The export includes the marks each student has received plus Teacher and Student Comments.

Bulk Upload

A Bulk Upload feature has been added to the existing ‘Create Resource’ screen to allow staff users to upload more than one resource at a time. Users are now able to upload multiple Resources from a designated folder for the same ‘Faculty’, ‘Year Group’, ‘Topic’ and ‘Source’, minimising the time for staff to create new content.

Teacher and Administrator Online Help

Online Help features are now available from the eduKate toolbar and Administration Console. Comprehensive documentation has been released with guides to each function within eduKate including dynamic movies.

eduKate™ Version 2.8.2.0 is due to be released in August 2007 with new features and enhancements to the eduKate™ Administration Console.

In summary, the new features and enhancements being released in this version of eduKate™ are:

Enable/Disable Public Access Sharing

The ability to make Learning Objects publicly accessible through the Sharing function can now be enabled or disabled by Administrators in the eduKate™ Administration Console

Enable Assignment of Resources and Discussion Forums for an Entire Year

The ability to assign Learning Objects for an Entire Year and view Discussion Forum areas for an Entire Year is now available. This new function will allow teachers to assign resources and forum areas to students and still have the information available to their students regardless of changing semester or subject codes.

This new parameter can be enabled or disabled by Administrators in the eduKate™ Administration Console.

Delete The Le@rning Federation (TLF) Objects

The ability to delete The Le@rning Federation™ (TLF Objects) after they have been imported into The Le@rning Federation Repository is now available.

The Le@rning Federation Objects can now be reviewed and removed from the system by Learning Federation Administrators

Bulk Transfer of Learning Objects to another eduKate™ User

The ability to transfer a portfolio of Learning Objects between one eduKate™ user and another is now available.

This function is available to “staff” users of eduKate™ and allows an eduKate™ Administrator to “transfer” ownership of all Learning Objects within a users Learning Objects Repository to another user from within
the eduKate™ Administration Console.

Bulk Delete of Learning Objects for an eduKate™ User

The ability to Delete all Learning Objects owned by an eduKate™ user is now available. This new function allows an eduKate™ Administrator to remove all Learning Objects from a users’ Learning Objects Repository.