{"id":570,"date":"2016-06-02T10:20:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.collaborator.biz\/?p=570"},"modified":"2021-06-03T13:29:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:29:50","slug":"collaborator-v1-21-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-v1-21-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborator v. 1.21.0 &#8211; Chat in elearning portal, group and personal communications channels \ud83d\udcac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-v1-21-0\/#Chat\" >Chat<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-v1-21-0\/#Course_%E2%80%93_customize_finish_page\" >Course &#8211; customize finish page<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-v1-21-0\/#Various_improvements\" >Various improvements<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>New features in Collaborator v.1.21.0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chat\u00a0 &#8211; group and personal channels of communication.<\/li>\n<li>Course &#8211; customize finish page<\/li>\n<li>Numerous improvements:\n<ul>\n<li>Reports. Show statistics by tasks participants.<\/li>\n<li>Tasks list. Number of unchecked answers in tests task.<\/li>\n<li>Resources. Allow to download original documents, that was converted in HTML-pages.<\/li>\n<li>Polls. Who voted for that?<\/li>\n<li>Polls 360\u00b0. Managers have access to reports of competency assessment his employees.<\/li>\n<li>Course edit page refactoring<\/li>\n<li>The lock print option for web-portal pages<\/li>\n<li>\u201cExternal ID\u201d in User Profile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>solved more than 70 tasks of development, optimization and improvement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chat\"><\/span>Chat<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Those who already know Collaborator, discussion about educational resources in the Forum is commonplace. This is live communication. Messages appear in the moment when they are sent, and the discussion runs in real time. Therefore, you can get answers almost immediately.<br \/>\nBut to discuss business issues and objectives the forum is not very convenient tool, and that&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Forum need for group discussion about one particular theme or about global issue. Discussion will be able to see any users for propose their opinions and their solution.<\/li>\n<li>The discussion takes place in a calm pace. Nobody expects from topics participants an instant answers and they have time to prepare it. The forum topic always can be found by context searching of Knowledge Base\u00a0 and continue this discuss..<\/li>\n<li>It is impractical for every small question to create a separate forum topic. On simple question may be one concrete answer that solves everything and does not require long discussions.<\/li>\n<li>The forum isn&#8217;t usable for personal correspondence. But for solutions to operational issues or to advise students, simple quick dialogue is important.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In Collaborator version 1.21 we present new function &#8211;<strong> Chat as an alternative to Forum<\/strong>. Now you can create group or personal communication channels.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_114713.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-601\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_114713-1024x447.png\" alt=\"2016-06-07_114713\" width=\"604\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChat uses two types of communication &#8220;Channels&#8221; for group communication and &#8220;Direct messages&#8221; &#8211; for personal correspondence.<br \/>\nWhen you create a chat Channel to choose its members. The\u00a0members list can be edited at any time. Access to Channel appears for each member in the Chat page where they can join to conversation.<br \/>\nPersonal communication channels are created in a similar way \u2013 only enough to find someone with whom you want to communicate. After you create a channel your colleague will have to accept your invitation. In the &#8220;Direct messages&#8221; list\u00a0 will be available the user whom you invited to chat.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static2.mailerlite.com\/data\/builder\/2443465\/20160607181428278_540_246_1_0.png\" width=\"540\" height=\"246\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAll correspondence chatting persists even after removal of the channels. So if for some reason you accidentally delete a personal channel, and then restore it again &#8211; all correspondence will be restored.<br \/>\nChat, like everything in the Collaborator, works with all devices \u2013 desktop computer, tablet PC or a mobile phone. You can discuss questions regardless of your location and time of day.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.mailerlite.com\/data\/builder\/2443465\/20160607182536193_300_182_1_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"162\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static2.mailerlite.com\/data\/builder\/2443465\/20160607182549187_300_182_1_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"162\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s the first version of chat that have only basic functionality. But we have a lot of ideas that will be implemented. Follow to updates \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Course_%E2%80%93_customize_finish_page\"><\/span>Course &#8211; customize finish page<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Training Course, just like any task in the Collaborator, may be finished successful or failed. This specifies the option to set a &#8220;Threshold passing&#8221; for task.<br \/>\nIn Collaborator version 1.21 you can create custom finish pages for courses. There are two &#8211; one is shown when the user successfully completes the course, the other when it fails. They edited a built-in WYSIWYG editor. This means that you can use templates, animation effects, videos and more HTML elements.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_155506.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-602\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_155506.png\" alt=\"2016-06-07_155506\" width=\"925\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Various_improvements\"><\/span>Various improvements<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>1. Reports. Display statistics of tasks participants<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAll reports in Collaborator able to adapt to the filters that we set when viewing. For example, with their help, we can easily get a visual representation of training\u00a0 for managers from city Kiev or get a visual evaluation of testing process for users with the tag &#8220;trainee&#8221;. Each report is accompanied by users activity charts and diagrams.<br \/>\nIn this version for each report of training activities we added some numerical characteristics of user engagement. To the right of activity diagram is shown a small table &#8220;Statistics&#8221;. Depending on applied filters to the report it displays:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of assigned users<\/li>\n<li>How many people have completed the task successfully and how many failed<\/li>\n<li>How many in progress<\/li>\n<li>How many have not even started execution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_173950.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-603\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_173950-1024x361.png\" alt=\"2016-06-07_173950\" width=\"604\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>2. Tasks list. Shown the number of unchecked answers for test-tasks<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nTraining manager works with tasks list where are created and assigned educational activity. Usually it does or educational portal administrator or tutor-coach who leads his own courses.<br \/>\nTimely check up responses is important in the e-learning process . Free response type questions is often used in tests. With help such questions type user can send answers or files to teacher. Check of such answers is only performed &#8220;manually&#8221;.<br \/>\nWe have added a badge with unchecked answers number in row with the test in tasks list. Clicking on it you can quickly jump to checking the answers on the selected test, that speeds up the trainers work.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_181718.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-604\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_181718-1024x436.png\" alt=\"2016-06-07_181718\" width=\"604\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>3. Resources. Allow to download the originals of the converted documents<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nResource in Collaborator it is everything that the user reads, watches or listens. HTML page is most common variant of such a resource. At any time you can edit it online. Also the resource author can use the adaptive layout, insert images, video, interactive, and even add into page other resources.<br \/>\nTo simplify the authors work helps converting files from MS Word (.docx) format\u00a0 to HTML-page. This is a simple sequence of actions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a resource of type &#8220;File&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Loading MS Word file format (docx)<\/li>\n<li>Collaborator will propose to convert file to HTML page \u2013 agree with this<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Then the resource change type from &#8220;File&#8221; to &#8220;Page&#8221;, the entire document contents with pictures and tables will be converted to HTML format, and the author will be able to edit content in online mode and to adapt it under the screens of mobile devices<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_182531.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-605\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_182531-1024x561.png\" alt=\"2016-06-07_182531\" width=\"604\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.mailerlite.com\/data\/builder\/2443465\/20160607152843201_300_354_1_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"189\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nIf you want to allow people who will read this resource page, to download the original document file MS Word, in settings enough to enable the &#8220;Allow downloading&#8221; option. Then will be available &#8220;Download&#8221; button on page when user will view a resource.<br \/>\n<strong>4. Polls. Who voted for that?<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAdded simple and useful improvement.<br \/>\nIf poll is open type\u00a0 (not anonymous poll), then you can immediately viewing those who voted for one or other answers variant in polls report.<br \/>\nIt looks like this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static2.mailerlite.com\/data\/builder\/2443465\/20160607180617342_540_240_1_0.png\" width=\"540\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>5. Polls 360 \u00b0. Managers have access to the competencies reports<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nWe have moved access to polls results by the method of 360\u00b0 into the &#8220;Reports&#8221; category.\u00a0The access permission to reports by his subordinates are allowed and for these reports now.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static2.mailerlite.com\/data\/builder\/2443465\/20160607173108442_540_180_1_0.png\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>6. Refactoring page for course preview<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAuthor when working with course will be able to preview its components faster.<br \/>\nOn title-page of the course available links, which open the curriculum elements for viewing and editing, and available links to edit a Course Materials and a Course Curriculum.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_192327.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-606\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_192327-1024x440.png\" alt=\"2016-06-07_192327\" width=\"604\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>7. Disable the ability to print the portal pages<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nSometimes you want to prevent printing the portal contents.\u00a0Now it is possible enable the option &#8220;Disable printing&#8221; on the system configuration page.<br \/>\nAs a result of applying this option the button &#8220;Print&#8221; will be hidden and will locked browser&#8217;s print function. Nothing is sent to print, the key combination &#8220;Ctrl+P&#8221; not work, etc.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_190523.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-607\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_190523.png\" alt=\"2016-06-07_190523\" width=\"800\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>8. User profile. Field \u201cExternal ID\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nCollaborator allows you to add users manually or with the help of data synchronization with external HR systems.\u00a0Users that appear in the synchronization result, different from manually added users by special code from external system (&#8220;external ID&#8221;). With help of this code is identified by a person, and information about user automatically updated with every sync act.<br \/>\nWe added the editable field &#8220;external ID&#8221; in the user profile.\u00a0And now administrators can include in the synchronization those users that have previously been added manually.<br \/>\nThis applies, for example, in such a situation. Are recruited candidates to work in the company. They are not a staff and therefore cannot be obtained from the personnel system. This interns are added to LMS manually and thus are included in the educational internships process.<br \/>\nWhen one of them will be hired and appear in the list of employees,\u00a0 Administrator will enter it &#8220;External ID\u00bb in the profile. After that for this user will work synchronization function \u2013 when the employee parameters are changed Collaborator will write career history, automatically assign training activities, will open or close access to resources in Knowledge Base etc.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_185221.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-608\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-06-07_185221.png\" alt=\"2016-06-07_185221\" width=\"814\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12,29,34,25,72],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","tag-collaborator","tag-opros","tag-opros-360","tag-resurs","tag-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}