Nfomedia Blog

Improved Quizzes/Exams

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:07:27 -0500

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.

Coursestreet.com

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:15:33 -0500

Did you know that all of your "data" is also available at the website Coursestreet.com?

http://coursestreet.com

Coursestreet.com is a "carbon copy" Web-application of Nfomedia.com (owned by Nfomedia), which has existed online for more than one year. The features on Coursestreet match the features on Nfomedia identically. Furthermore, we would like to inform everyone that both Nfomedia.com and Coursestreet.com will be maintained equally and continue to run as parallel websites in the future.

Import Content Feature

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:48:20 -0500

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.

Dashboard Widget

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:27:34 -0500

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


[[dashboard]]

Dashboard - Web View

Edit Course Icons

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:00:16 -0600

We're pleased to announce to our Prosite subscribers the option to edit course icons in place of the default university icons. For those instructors with multiple courses, this is particularly useful, helping with quick identification of feed events from each course. You can change the course icon on the 'Course Title and Description' section of the 'Course Settings' page.

Connect with Facebook

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:42:11 -0600

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).

How To Make a Content Page Full Screen

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:41:28 -0500

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

Prosite Professor License

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:11:42 -0500

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.

Introducing Content Widgets

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:56:03 -0500

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

A Change to Prosite and Global (free version)

nobody@nfomedia.com (Nfomedia Team) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:39:42 -0500

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.