CourseDirector news New Year 2012
January 3rd, 2012 // 9:15 am @ admin
Firstly and most importantly “Happy New Year” from Dan, Mike, Aleh and all at CourseDirector and to say here’s to a successful 2012 for all! When we launched CourseDirector in the Google Apps Marketplace back in March we couldn’t have imagined that we would get to work with educators across the world, from London down to Nairobi, and from Bangkok across to Anchorage. It’s been a great journey and we’re excited about where we can take CourseDirector in 2012 to continue our mission to develop a simple to use LMS with the highest possible integration with Google Apps.
With the growth of CourseDirector we have started to build up a great network of EdTech professionals at forward thinking schools and colleges and we’ve had a lot of requests for introductions to other CourseDirector admins. To facilitate this we have created a closed Google group for CourseDirector admins to connect with one another and to share things like course templates and tips with each other. All CourseDirector admins will receive an invite in January and CourseDirector staff will actively participate in the discussions.
Now available for Google Apps Standard Edition
We are delighted to announce that CourseDirector is now available for Google Apps ‘Standard edition’, not just the ‘Business’ and ‘Education’ editions. The reason for the delay in releasing this is that Google restricted the API’s on the free ’standard’ version of Google Apps, but have now opened them up which is great news for us. It will allow small companies and institutions to use CourseDirector, as well as allowing educators to evaluate the system on their ‘Standard edition’ test domain. To expand this further we are working on making CourseDirector allow you register students who are not set up on your domain via their individual Google Account.
Customise the look and feel of CourseDirector
A lot of schools have requested the ability to customise the look and feel of the main screen so we have listened and rolled out several customisation options for admins this week. All the changes below can easily be made in the admin screen:
Firstly a lot of schools have requested the ability to have their own logo on the CourseDirector screen instead of our logo, so we have added this feature now. It’s also now possible to disable the links to help and pricing etc. so students don’t see them.
We also went one step further for our power users and it’s now possible for admins to completely customise the look and feel of CourseDirector with CSS!
CourseDirector welcomes…
We are delighted to welcome the London Academy of Management and Business to CourseDirector. LAMB is part of the University of London system and offers programs ranging from short courses through to Masters degrees and has training centres in Russia and China.
In K-12 we are really happy to be starting cooperation with the Babylon School District in New York. We are working there together with our partner company LogicWing who are an expert Google Apps consultancy and highly recommended for any schools on the East Coast looking for any help with any aspect of training, set up and support on Google Apps.
New services
We have also expanded our general Google Apps services for schools making the initial move to Google Apps, providing low cost set-up and data migration of email and other data from all legacy systems.
As we are a company founded by Google Apps EDU Certified Trainers we are now expanding our service to schools by offering an ‘enhanced support package’ with many additional features to assist schools with all aspects of using and administering Google Apps. Of course all our existing clients looking to take advantage of this additional service will receive locked in reduced pricing.
Finally for our trial customers just a reminder to sign up before the end of January for permanently locked in discounted pricing, the same as for our initial clients. Once more a great 2012 for all!
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