CMS HiEd/Int’l Monthly Meeting

April 2012

Peter Chapman

April 25, 2012

Agenda eText Release Updates

Analytics Update

Digital Library Walk Through

It will be a Digital World…

eText Update eText v4.5.1 - Hot Fix deployed

Fixed Whiteboard icon in Elementary Skin

eText 4.6 - In QA Internal release to support PCL and DL projects Improvements to the Toolkit

eText v4.7 - Development almost complete Targeting late-June Server federation Flex Bookshelf migrated to HTML – Demo Ability to control underline and transparency of hotspots in Authoring on an

individual basis Bug fixes

eText v4.8 - In Planning Targeting BTS RUMBA version of LTI (S11) for International

eText for iPad and Android eText for iPad v1.1.1 development underway

Targeting a release in early June Improved display performance for all iPads including iPad3 Will require minimum iOS v5.0

eText for Android v1.1 In final QA for SMS RUMBA and eCollege versions to follow

eText for iPad/Android v1.2 Targeting release for summer Planned features include:

Support for federated servers Support for transparent/underline hotspots Support for full multi-tasking Two-line display of Book title (iPad) Forced landscape (iPad) Limit 2-page display (iPad)

eText LTG Analytics Proof-of-concept underway

22 titles for School and HiEd

Targeting v1.0 for BTS

Business Units can learn: What pages are users viewing and in what order? How are users personalizing their books? What interactive elements are they clicking? What search and glossary terms are they looking

for?

eText LTG Analytics

Early test reports using limited sample data

Integration Update No S11 integration with MMND this fall MMND supports S1, S5 and S6 Contact Paul Sheppard for info RUMBA LTI

Will enable bi-directional linking Requires LMS to provide course construct Targeting BTS 2012 timeframe for Int’l

Pearson Digital Library A planned new CMS platform for BTS 2012 designed to address the need of

students and instructors to search, preview, purchase, and then manage their ebook and digital media content. Search or browse through a large collection of Pearson eText titles and media content Access the Digital Library using a personal computer‘s web browser or mobile device Business Units can pre-defined collections or allow individual users to expand their

bookshelf by subscription PLS can created custom libraries for sales to institutions

Initial release will be guided by the requirements of the US and Canadian Teacher Education and Canadian MBA teams, as well as the Nursing/Ready Point teams and focused on eText titles

English, Sociology and History are looking to integrate DL with their MyLabs this fall. Other Softside teams anticipate availability for Jan 2013. Int’l HiEd has also expressed interest in using DL in 2013.

Future releases will include searching for Pearson media assets, collection personalizations and more.

User Scenario 1Enter directly to an

Institution-specific DL Logon

Navigate from institution’s web page

An institution-specific Sign In

View complete Digital Library

View your personal library

Search for words in eText

Search results screen

Preview and launch eText

Launched eText

Click stack to access MyLab list

MyLab collection

User Scenario 2Enter DL via MyLab

Portal

MyEducationLab marketing page

MyLab Sign In

MyLab portal page

MyEducation Digital Library

View complete Digital Library

A quick word or two re Digital… CMS is working across PENA to standardize XMLs CMS is conducting an investigation of CS6 as a

digital composition tool CMS is rolling out the new Workflow for HiEd now

and School in 2013 A integration between the Media Server and

Documentum is planned. Planning is underway to support a number of Digital

Extensions to the Workflow including a new re-flowable eText in 2013, nicknamed “NextText”.

Questions?

Next Meeting Wed May 16 10AM EDT

PPT will be posted to NEO site https://neo.pearson.com/groups/etext Become a member!

Peter Chapman617-671-3124