Editure Next Generation Platform

1. Editure Next Generation Platform January 2010

2. Agenda • Introductions • Web 2.0 and Beyond • Service Orientated Architecture • Huxley – Key Concepts • Users • Communities • UI Design / Navigation Concepts • Portlets and Tools • Communities, Groups and Roles • Potential Roadmap • Project Huxley – Alpha Testing / Pilot

3. Introductions • An Education Services and Technology company with more than 25 years specialising in the K-12 market. • We currently provide the MySuite, EdSuite, Learning Point, and SINA products to over 2 million students. • A number of ex-teachers on staff - and many other staff members with education related experience. • We provide turn-key Virtual Learning Environment solutions, Integration and Developer services, and Professional Development and training for Teachers to a global customer base • Jim Yurcevic, Service Delivery Manager • 6 Years at Editure, specialising in Account management and Solution selling • Worked in the IT industry for over 15 years • Chris Trott, Manager Next Generation Products • Management consulting background, specialising in Multimedia and Enterprise learning • More than 15 years in delivering Online solutions

4. Web 2.0 and beyond • Vision of a modern, integrated and extensible learning environment. • Develop a software integration framework and populate it with a set of best-of-breed products that meet user demands and are designed to interoperate. • Recognise that different customers may require different elements for the same function to meet local needs. • Acknowledge that new elements will be needed over time while others will reduce in value, so allow for the integration of new elements. • Prepare for Innovation in education and Technology, and be able to integrate at an affordable price point. • Editure has synthesised such a framework based on its own experience and best practice thinking to refine a Service Oriented Architecture for Education Authorities and Schools.

5. CENET_OctoberBrieifing Portal Framework - Liferay Collaboration Tools - Java Portal Standard (JSR-286) Portlets Content Management - Java Content Repository Standard (JSR-170) CMS Email & Calendaring - Exchange 2007 Business Process & Workflow Management - Intalio (not in Release1.0) • Data Interchange • SIF (SIF-AU) • IMS LTI, QTI & CC, SCORM Internal, User Generated Content External, Import / Search (e.g. TLF, edna, Espresso, Encyclopaedia Britannica) Editure – Education Future Directions Integration Framework Interaction Security / Duty of Care • SAML • LDAP/AD • Anti Virus • Anti Spam • Audit / Logging • Filtering • Cost Control Integration Business Services Applications • Enterprise Apps • Legacy Systems • New Systems • Administrative Services • Denbigh • Maze • Oliver/ClickView • Learning Services • Moodle • Mahara Support Services - Reporting: Jasper Operational Data Unstructured Data Maze/Denbigh Integration External, Import / Search (e.g. TLF, EDNA, Encyclopedia Britannica)

6. Key Concepts - Users • Users can be grouped together into ‘Groups’ (Year 11, Year 12 etc) and can be assigned ‘Roles’ that allow them different privileges within the system. • Our system caters to a number of key user groups/roles, with more as needed in future.

7. Key Concepts - Communities • A community is a common space where users can share information, communicate and collaborate to create learning. • Typically a community is administered by a teacher with students as participants, but a community could also be for teachers Professional Development, or even a school fete. • Communities can be compulsory (Math 2B), or voluntary (Chess Club). Students are able to browse a list of voluntary communities. • Administrators can invite other users or groups, and can even deputize trusted users to perform a subset of admin tasks • For convenience, communities can be grouped into categories (Classes, Extra curricula etc) • Communities can be customised, having their own sub-pages, tools (portlets) and themes. • Teachers can develop pages ahead of time, and have the new pages display after a trigger event (such as a date/time)

8. Key Concepts – Communities /cont. Community Admin After School Care Geography Community Participants

9. Portlets and Tools • Our system comes with over 50 portlets out of the box. Typically, these break down in to one of four categories: • - General Portal Portlets (e.g.. email, calendar, search) • - Learning Portlets (e.g. Assessment, Resource Creation) • - Collaborative Portlets (e.g. Blogs, wikis) • - Admin Portlets (e.g. Portal config, reports) • Permissions can be given to portlets to control how they are used by differently types of users • Our portlets are JSR 286 and JSR 182 compliant for interoperability and to allow new portlets to be added over time. Editure can also build custom portlets to respond to specific customer needs.

10. Communities, Groups and Roles • As with most things in life, there are tradeoffs between well structured technology environments and more open user defined systems, but the good news is that our platform allows a great degree of flexibility for how learning authorities and schools are set up. Policies can be set at a learning authority level or defined at the higher level and then refined down at school, class, group, or user levels. • It is possible to fully configure the class structures, user roles, groups to suit the existing structure, and control to an atomic level who can access information and system function. • It is further possible to allow teachers and communities to share information across schools and communities, and when authorised, to invite others to join their learning group. • We can set things up so only a few critical portlets and simple themes are available, and turn more complicated tools on as the teachers and students become more comfortable with how the system works. • Our new system has a migration path from MySuite, and other learning environments, such as our early learning product that we sell in conjunction with UK based DB Learning. • Our authentication and Indentity components makes it easier to

13. Editure will offer clients the opportunity to Evaluate or Pilot our Next Generation Platform

14. We are developing a standard approach to ensure a successful pilot *Timelines shown are indicative. Integration times may vary according to customer need, integration complexity, our previous experience.

15. What does our timetable look like?

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