Today we're pleased to announce support for Facebook Connect allowing users to link their Facebook account to their Nfomedia account. By connecting your Facebook account, you will be able to log in at Nfomedia quickly using the "Connect with Facebook" button. Also, a link to your Facebook profile will appear on your Nfomedia profile. You can expect more features to come from Nfomedia enabling sharing your identity from other social networks with your classmate/colleagues (i.e. Facebook, Twitter).

Sometimes the information on a content page justifies Full Screen mode (i.e. hide the menus and increase the width of content area). This can be accomplished by using a new editor command. Simply enter the following command anywhere on a page to enable Full Screen mode (NOTE: works on any page EXCEPT the home page):

Full Screen - Syntax

[[fullscreen]]

Full Screen - Web View



You can read more about how to enable Full Screen mode in the Help Center at the link below.

http://www.nfomedia.com/fullscreen.nfo

Today we're announcing the Prosite Professor License which includes up to 10 course sites for a single administrator for one year. The cost is $350, which might be attractive to those faculty teaching full-time including summer. You can purchase Prosite Professor License in the Nfomedia store:

http://www.nfomedia.com/store.nfo

If you have already purchased single site licenses for the Fall semester and want to purchase Prosite Professor for the year, please contact us to apply those payments toward the new license.

We've added the ability to include dynamic course information within content pages using Content Widgets. Inserting a widget is a simple editing command. Currently widgets include "Recent Announcements", "Course Feed", and "User Welcome". You can read more about how to add widgets in the Help Center at the link below.

http://www.nfomedia.com/widgets.nfo

We would like notify administrators that starting August 1 Student Journals will be part of the Prosite feature set. This underscores our commitment to providing Prosite to those faculty who require to instruct extensive/full online courses. Our free version will otherwise remain the same. You can read more about the Prosite vs. Global feature comparison at the Web page below.

Prosite vs. Global (free version)

Thank you for your understanding. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

Big thanks to Lorena Suarez for creating 12 new themes available to our Prosite subscribers (a few previews shown above). Also at this time, we're please to announce 1-month free of Prosite to all administrators. You can activate the free trial via the upgrade page on each course ? this only takes a few clicks. We'd also like to send a warm thanks to those already subscribing, which in turn supports the Nfomedia.com product.

Nfomedia is now on Twitter. So if you're a Twitter user and have a question/comment/suggestion, send us a Tweet! http://www.twitter.com/nfomedia

Nfomedia is pleased to announce its new 'Feed' feature which provides you with up-to-the-minute information on all course changes — including changes to blog, announcements, message board, gradebook, journals, exams, etc. Please look for the 'feed' link on the top left menu bar. You can also subscribe to course feed using an RSS or Atom reader by clicking the links at the bottom of the page.

We're pleased to announce Nfomedia for the iPhone offering quick access to areas such as Grades, Blogs, Nfo Mail, and Message Boards (more areas to come). Just go to http://www.nfomedia.com and iPhone will automaticallly detect mobile Nfomedia. You can expect support for other mobile devices very soon (e.g. Blackberry).

We've added two graphic displays to the course grade book (viewable only by a course administrator). The first represents a ranking of grade averages from highest to lowest and color coded by letter grade (A, B, C, D, F). The second is a distribution of grades (color coded by letter grade).

We're pleased to announce Nfomedia Graphs which uses dynamic images (no plug-in required) to provide fast, real-time overviews for Personal Homepages and Prosite Courses. Currently, graphs are available for Web Traffic and User Activity. You can expect more graphs in the future including a series dedicated to Gradebook.

We're pleased to announce that Web Badges are now available to Course Sites, Personal Homepages, and User Profiles. Web Badges are for promoting your Nfomedia pages elsewhere on the Web (e.g. Facebook, Blogs, University pages). The embed code for your Web Badge can be found on the Site Overview page of your Course/Homepage or at the bottom of your Profile page. Here are some examples:

We've added mobile blogging to Personal Homepages which allows you to easily publish photos and/or text directly to your blog from your mobile phone. Simply go to Blog Settings at your personal blog to obtain your Mobile Upload E-mail then save this to your Address Book on your mobile phone. Now you can easily send camera phone pictures directly to your blog. You can also change your mobile e-mail address at anytime by clicking the reset button.

Nfomedia has a new look! The HOME, BLOG, NFOMAIL, MY SITES and NFOMEDIA menus have been moved to the top of the course home page -- making access to them quick and easy.

Also, professors and course administrators can now add a custom BACKGOUND to their course websites and personal homepages.  Simply click on Site Settings and chose Background.  Features include (1) background color, (2) background image, (3) image alignment, and (4) repeat image.

Professors and students who have created Personal Home Pages can now enable their own personal chat room where they are talk in real time with any registered Nfomedia user. To activate the Chat Room on your Personal Home Page, simply click on ?Site Settings? and select ?Feature Settings & Link Course Sites.?