JoomlaLMS 1.0.7 upcoming release Featured
YWS is happy to announce that the elearning component JoomlaLMS 1.0.7 is on the way! The release is scheduled for the end of July 2010. The upcoming version is going to have many significant and long-awaited improvements and functions that you suggested implementing. Just take a look at the brief roadmap that lists only the major innovations:
1. 'Organizations' feature for JoomlaLMS (PRO edition only) – a possibility for different user groups (or sets of groups) to work with the LMS independently from each other, with their own users management, courses management, reporting etc.
2. Recurrent payments (PRO edition only) will be available for PayPal payment processor. Recurrent payments can also be effected as payments by installments.
3. VirtueMart integration – you will now be able to sell JoomlaLMS courses via VirtueMart and use any payment method available in VM. Thanks to the smooth integration your users will receive access to JoomlaLMS courses immediately after completing a payment.
4. Integration with JomSocial – JoomlaLMS will be integrated with JomSocial so that all LMS-related information about users will be shown in their JomSocial profiles.
5. Time-released content – all types of course content will have an option of becoming available not directly after the course enrollment, but in a specified period after the enrollment.
6. Export possibilities for all reporting/info/statistics tools – support of different export formats, such as CSV, XLS, PDF, TXT.
7. Email notifications - various automatic email notifications will be added for various LMS tools (e.g. on course enrolment, on course completion, on quiz completion, on purchase, on adding a user to a course etc.).
8. jComments and jReviews integration – a possibility to post comments for courses and rate them. This functionality is developed as plugins for jComments and jReviews components for Joomla! CMS.
9. Improved Community Builder integration – a set of plugins for CommunityBuilder to show all LMS-related information about users in their profile.
10. Learning Paths improvement – Learning paths Contents menu will be shown on the left and will have expand/collapse possibilities for chapters and steps, plus usability improvements for populating learning paths.
11. Links tool improvement – a possibility to open links in inline frames or lightboxes.
12. SEF plugins will be developed for ArtioSef, sh404Sef and native Joomla Sef.
13. DropBox tool improvement - it will be possible to use this tool as an individual file repository with a possibility to share files with other users.
14. BackEnd translations – now not only the FrontEnd interface is translatable, BackEnd interface will be translatable as well.
15. Joomla! CMS 1.6.x compatibility. Joomla! 1.0.x will no longer be supported, however there will be improvements for Joomla 1.5.x native compatibility and Joomla 1.6.x will be supported.
Plus over 100 improvements for various LMS tools - most of the improvement ideas are based on customers' feedback!
YWS is an authorise reseller, installer and trainer in JoomlaLMS.


