Janison Toolbox The inaugural Janison Users Conference was held on November 24th and 25th, 2005, at Novotel Pacific Bay Resort in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. Here are some highlights: Future Directions Seamless learning (portals, integration, learning objects) Technologies Microsoft .NET Macromedia Flash and Media Server Web Services SQL 2005 and SQL Express Releases LMS 6.2.2 – new question types Blogs 1.0 – integrated with courses (free) VIBE 1.0 – video and audio (licensed) Conferencing tool (Debate tool, Whiteboard and Presentation tool) Janison LMS 7 According to the Janison website, LMS 7 will provide a range of new features and will incorporate new Microsoft.NET web technologies. New features due in this release include: Versioned content objects - a range of content management features Subgroups - the ability to control which users in a study group can study which modules and the ability to create workgroups that can be used to provide workspaces for learners working collaboratively Test Sections - the ability to divide a test in to sections and control how the questions are presented within each section New video and audio page components allowing students to save videos and audio in a page Improved framework configuration options and new wizards to make working with frameworks easier Live communications extensions - providing video conferencing, whiteboards, and presentation tools with live video/audio New portal option - an open source web portal with integrated Janison security and a range of portal components supporting Janison components (source code included) Portfolios - a new tool to allow users to create and maintain portfolios of work with integrated tools Provision of a developer framework (SDK), Janison.Toolbox.NET - this will allow developers to build their own LMS extensions using our SDK. In Development How about this one - CD Publishing - export courses to CD including assessment and tracking. CDs can then synchronise back to courses. http://conference05.janison.com