
TCS iON Digital Learning
Theory concept and practical knowledge go hand in hand
Feature: Hands-On programming activity in Digital Learning courses.
Description: Introducing a new type of activity as Hands-on Programming Interface. This activity helps the faculty to assess the learners in their technical programming skills as a part of the course and provides score and grading based on it. With this activity, learners can also practice coding and equip themselves technically along with theoretical content of courses.
To configure Hands-on Activity in organisation, the organisation admin must configure the External Vendors for Hands-On in Preferences screen. Now, add Hands-on as a component while Course creation.
You can create Hands-on Activity once the Hands-on component is added in the Course.
The options include:
a) Creating Hands-on Activity with Eclipse Che IDE (No configuration required for anything).
b) Creating Hands-on Activity with configured External Vendor selection.
In case of either selection, the participants can view the Activity on Course Launch. The selected Hands-on Mode (either Hackerrank/Katacoda/Eclipse Che) displays against the Activity name.
•Key benefits: Learn theoretical concepts along with practical knowledge.
Course and community creation demarcated for user clarit
Feature: Upload supported documents for admin action to create Community or Course
Description: Now, when you create a Community or Course, it requires the invitation of two administrators. In case, if it is not a Force Invite option then, the invitation request must be accepted by the Admin to activate the Community or Course.
Additionally, the invited moderator of a Course/Community can upload the supporting documents in My Actions screen for the Administrator to review and accept the invitation to administer the Course or Community.
In Moderator View, you can View and Remove the uploaded file.
In Administrator View, the admin can view an eye icon to review uploaded documents, based on which the invitation is accepted and rejected.
Key Benefits: Objective behind Course or Community creation gets clear to the administrator.
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Introducing Post display on timeline with Admin approval
- Feature: Configuration to display post on timeline with admin’s approval.
- Description: Now, you can display Enablers on timeline with admin’s approval, in iDL. With this feature, once you create a post, it displays with a tag Pending for Action. Once the admin approves the Post, it displays to others on timeline. The Post does not display to others until the admin declines or does not take any action on it.
You can view the options related to the Post such as Vote up, Vote down, Comment, Favourite, Share with/Copy link and so on once the admin approves the Post.
The admin can view the community Posts along with the buttons to approve or decline the post, on timeline.
Admin can also filter out all post, which are pending for action on the timeline using the icon provided.
- Key benefits: Admin can filter out any offensive or objectionable post before they appear on timeline.
Highlights of the month
Introducing upload supported documents for admin action to create Community or Course
- Feature: Upload supported documents for admin action to create Community or Course
- Description: Now, when you create a Community or Course, it requires the invitation of two administrators. In case, if it is not a Force Invite option then, the invitation request must be accepted by the Admin to activate the Community or Course.
Additionally, the invited moderator of a Course/Community can upload the supporting documents in My Actions screen for the Administrator to review and accept the invitation to administer the Course or Community.
In Moderator View, you can View and Remove the uploaded file.
In Administrator View, the admin can view an eye icon to review uploaded documents, based on which the invitation is accepted and rejected.
Key Benefits: Objective behind Course or Community creation gets clear to the administrator.
Introducing Face Verification and System Authentication for course Access
- Feature: Face Verification and System Authentication in courses for participant access.
- Description: Now, the course admin can configure Face Verification & System Authentication to access the TCS iON iDL courses. Course Admin can enable this feature.
Here, the course Admin can select the required participant data for Registration and verify the data captured during Registration, at the time of authentication.
Perform authentication in two ways:
- Course Admin can authenticate by providing the access code to launch the course. You must enter the access code after clicking Launch to launch the course.
- You can authenticate to yourself by capturing your photo through the webcam-enabled system, at the Course Launch, which once verified allows you to access the Course.
In case, if the authentication fails, then the course admin has the option to Generate Access Code forcefully for the user.
- Key Benefit: Admin can authorise the Course content access using this feature.
Introducing new ODRs for logs of Course or Activity launch
- Feature: Two new ODR added in Report and Communication solution
- Description: Now, you can find Community or Course launch logs details and Course or Activity Launch Stats using two newly added ODRs in Report and Communication solution of Webtop.
Following are the two new ODRs:
- Community/Course Launch Logs ODR: The Course Launch details of a user are available in this ODR with details like System IP, browser used, device used for Course launch and launch date.
- Course/Activity Launch Stats (Daily) ODR: You can track the launch count details of a Course or Community through this ODR. These details include Launch date, activity, entity type, entity title and launch count.