We are delighted to announce our major release Schoolbox v16.5 GOLD is complete and ready for install on all servers. A big shout-out to our active user community and their contributions in our ideas forums. Thank you for helping to guide our product journey.
You will be pleased to see we have completed a major re-engineer of the LMS to support project-based learning (PBL) and personalised learning (PL). We have improved the submission and assessment workflows and have some great new user interface updates.
Introducing your team to the new features
To support your school community through this upgrade, we will be providing guidelines and documentation. These are ready for you here.
Fixtures
- Set up, administrate and manage school sports, activities and events.
- Keep team members and their parents notified and updated of all important details or changes.
- Fully integrated into the calendar, team home pages, google maps and notification system.
Projects
- Flexible course delivery in the classroom to support project-based learning or personalised learning.
- Added layer of assessment by containing tasks, quizzes or due work into a project with a summated grade.
LTI Support
- Extend the capabilities of your platform and enhance the learners' experience by integrating with an array of industry partners and educational tools.
- Seamless access for students to utilise 3rd party tools without the need for extra set up or configuration.
Navigation
- Customise and configure your own navigation areas. You decide what is relevant and important to your users or roles, and can now easily set the display or links in-house.
- Link directly to your personal classes and groups through a new dashboard component. Quickly view stats, marks or analytics from the tile too.
Other changes and features
There are additional changes to the Schoolbox Interface, minor new features you’ve voted for and some important things you need to know. This information and the full release notes are available on Schoolbox Help.
Next Steps
Easy! - all you need to do is open a ticket via the Support Desk and book in a time for us to perform your upgrade. But, before you do, make sure you are comfortable with and have read the:
On premise customers can then schedule this at a time that suits. Our ticketing system determines the order in which upgrades are performed, so get in early! Any development servers not yet updated, will automatically receive v16.5.
Walkthrough Webinar v16.5RC video
Watch the recorded v16.5RC Walkthrough Webinar by James Leckie, Co-founder, to get a sneak peak at the new features and improvements.
Enjoy! - The Schoolbox Team.