Watch the video of this session: https://youtu.be/1NA57MTSn7A?t=1s From identifying a niche gap in the market to powering an entire industry, Learnosity has gone from strength to strength in a short space of time. But it’s your insights that help drive our innovations. Join us as we take you through our planning and development process. From client feedback to story selection, get the low-down on how (and why) the Learnosity product evolves. So sit back, relax, and learn about how it all comes together.

1. 4:00 – 4:40pm
Neverending Story:
Learnosity’s ongoing
product evolution
Kirsteen & Michael

2. Michael Sharman
Director of Product & Engineering
michael.sharman@learnosity.com
Kirsteen Eydmann
Director of Delivery
kirsteen.eydmann@learnosity.com
Presenters

3. 1. Product strategy
2. Design and development approach
3. Roadmap – A year in review
4. Roadmap – A look ahead
Outline

4. Deliver a product that meets real world needs
for multiple clients, is customizable and does the
heavy lifting so you don’t have to.

5. Product ideas
Client Ideas Internal Ideas

7. What should we build
Value vs Complexity Quadrant Feature Impact Assessment

8. What we will build
Client Ideas Internal Ideas
Roadmap
(2–4 months)

9. Collaborative research
● Talk to clients
○ Gather end user requirements
○ Talk to DES, DEV and marketing
● Synthesize research
○ Determine the problem and value
● Define scope
○ MVP
How we build

10. You want something, but…
● You might not want us to build it
● All our APIs are extensible!
○ You want this!
○ Almost unlimited flexibility to build on top
○ You can preserve your IP or USP
Build it yourself?

11. Roadmap – A year in review

12. 450 features and product enhancements
Last 12 months

13. Recent deliveries – Questions API
6 new question types
● Hotspot
● Fillshape
● Long text v2
● Student file upload
● Image annotation
● Gridded

14. ● Accessibility
○ Huge focus on Section 508 and WCAG AA/AAA
● Branching
○ New model to set up branching assessments
● Responsiveness
○ More support for narrow screen widths
● Performance
○ Faster rendering on all devices
Recent deliveries – Assessment Player

15. Recent deliveries – Assessment Player
● Assess API regions
○ Flexible approach to player
component placements
● Dynamic content
○ CSV to derive many questions
from a single item
● Workflow with simple features
○ Autoplay audio, disable navigation

16. Recent deliveries – Other
● Learning Management Systems
○ LTI
○ Assessment and reporting
(Authoring coming soon)
● Offline
○ Added support for the
assessment player

17. Recent deliveries – Authoring
● Simple authoring
○ Support for teachers
● Activity builder
○ Available via the Author API
● Safer and simpler authoring
○ Tag browsing
○ Shared Passages
○ Duplicate Item

18. Recent deliveries – Analytics/Reporting and Data API
● Aggregate reports
○ District level reports
○ Drill down to school, class and
student
○ Longitudinal
● Live status report
○ Proctoring including proctor led
● Bulk asset uploading

19. Roadmap – A look ahead

20. New question types
Responsive design
Mobile performance
Offline assessments
Functionality partners
Scorm
Activity builder
Tag browsing UI
Simple authoring
- Targeting teachers
Greater levels of access
control
Submit paper-based
assessments
Aggregate report
- by tag
Item analysis
- Bank reporting
- Item health
Audit trail improvements

21. Conclusion

22. 4:00 – 4:40pm
Neverending Story:
Learnosity’s ongoing
product evolution
Kirsteen & Michael