The developers have announced lots of improvements to your Primary Learning Platform, released this week, stating that:
As we start the new school year, we are pleased to introduce a number of new features to make your portal easier to manage, save you time and allow you to monitor usage.
One of the most requested features has been to introduce usage statistics for your users. We have taken your comments on board and now provide access to statistics for your school portal. This will start to log usage stats from today.
We have also introduced a new bulk management tool which will enable you to easily make changes to accounts en-mass such as upload files to multiple people, create Learning Logs in bulk or add a blog entry to a whole class at the same time.
Some of you may have voted for the new theme in one our usergroup communities. We are now pleased to announce the release of the new Alien theme.
A summary of some of these exciting new features is shown below. As always, these enhancements have come in response to requests from our schools using DB Primary so please keep your ideas coming in.
More detailed information on these and other updates can be found on our help wiki here.
The bulk management tool is a great time saving feature that allows teachers to easily carry out tasks on multiple accounts simultaneously, including:
Uploading files
Creating local communities
Adding to blogs
Adding tags to my work and gallery areas.
For example, you may wish to show the children in your class an example of how to complete their blog task or upload and share weekly spellings. These tasks can now be carried out in a couple of clicks.
Viewing usage statistics for your school portal
Superadmin accounts are now able to view the recent activity of users on their school learning platform with a clear indicator of whether the usage was in school hours or not.
Time of login, amount of time spent on the platform as well as any activity a user carries out such as writing on a blog or uploading a file can be quickly referenced.
Alien theme skin for starter communities and accounts
An exciting and colourful new theme for younger pupils:
Look out for additions to the available themes in the near future.
Changing the look of your login screen
Change your school login screen by choosing a background picture.
A ‘Quicklink’ button can be added to any of your communities, providing access to your Espresso content. If you currently subscribe to Espresso (or would like to) and would like to include quicklinks in your platform please email espresso on operations@espresso.co.uk They will set you up and pass your details to us. We will then enable it for you and advise you how to use it.
If you do not currently have espresso home access, you can download the forms direct from the espresso website here
Other new features and improvements
For more information on a number of features new to the platform, please click on the following links for more information:
Drag and drop files directly to the My Work and My Files area
Restoring deleted files from community galleries and restoring deleted communities
