We're pleased to announce to Prosite administrators that we've added two configuration choices when creating Exams.

First and most importantly, we've added the ability for students to answer questions in any order (moving forward or backward) when taking the exam.

Question sequence

Option 1: Forward & Backward - Questions may be skipped and answered in any order
Option 2: Forward Only - Each question must be answered before moving to the next

"Option 2" is the old method for taking exams.

Second, we've added ability to display the exam score on the student's My Exam page (apart from also displaying the entire exam, question by question).

Display score--Display the exam score on the student's My Exams page

Option 1: Never
Option 2: Once grades are recorded
Option 3: Immediatlye after finishing exams

Both new configuration choices appear on the first step when creating exams.

We're pleased to announce that 'Content Import' is now available to course administrators under the Settings page. To our Prosite subscribers, 'Import Question Banks' is also available. Thanks to our users who reported issues with Import in the past. Those problems are now fixed.

Now administrators can easily display course statistics on any content page using the dashboard widget (including homepage). The dashboard shows classmate count, announcement count, Blog entry and comment count, and topics and message count. Administrators can enable Dashboard using the command below.

Dashboard - Syntax

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Dashboard - Web View

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 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'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 Nfomedia has upgraded it's servers exclusively to Apple Xserve and equipment has been moved to a data center in Dallas TX with bandwidth speeds of 100 Mbps (more than 50x faster than before).