The Institute for Learning’s 2017 Conference, Designing for Difference, featured outstanding workshops and presentations. It was also the first such event in which DialogeX participated and it will not be the last.  I was impressed by how many of the fellows and partners with whom we met were already familiar with the online professional development projects that DialogeX and IFL are pursuing.  Further, several IFL fellows are now deeply involved with our technology partner, NexPort Solutions, to develop features and functions to make IFL online offerings come alive (virtually speaking…).  I must say that in 30 years of training and education experience, I have seldom encountered such an incredibly engaged group of professionals.

Several of this year’s conference topics spoke to opportunities for creating voice and agency among student populations.  However, what about those instances when the “student population” (i.e., the participants) is comprised of professionals?  Perfunctory “one-shot” solutions at professional development seldom provide opportunities for voice or agency.  DialogeX is working with IFL to provide such opportunities and to enhance the online experience.
 
DialogeX’ technology partner, NexPort Solutions, is working directly with IFL fellows to identify their needs, values, opinions, passions, and ambitions for the NexPort Campus online platform (i.e., voice).  Experienced software developers will tell you that it is from these user stories that great user experiences emerge.  This is resulting in a set of features and functions that will enable IFL to act upon the online environment that delivers their programs (i.e., agency).  Here are some examples:

• Independent, pair, and small-group assignments.  Coaches and facilitators can introduce unique  assignments for specific students or small groups on the fly, allowing participants to work independently,  in pairs, or in small groups.
• Video coaching.  Participants can upload their own task-based videos (even from their phone or tablet) to NexPort Campus where master coaches will provide review and comment.  The upload, processing, and notification process is contained entirely within NexPort Campus and provides automated email notifications to participants.

This effort yields two significant results.  First, DialogeX can  provide workshop participants with a collaborative program that allows them to address their interests, challenges, and goals.  Second, workshop participants are empowered to meet where and when their schedules permit, using devices that they use every day (e.g., login when your schedule allows and collaborate with your peers with a Smartphone or tablet).  
The bottom line is that educators can now choose to act with a purpose, pursuing an online professional development experience that addresses their needs rather than enduring a one-shot “death by PowerPoint”.

NexPort Solutions is pleased to announce the release of NexPort Campus version 5.7.6. This is regularly planned point release that includes several bug fixes and a single enhancement.

We are excited to announce the release of NexPort Campus 5.7.0! This release features many new features, enhancements and bug fixes that our partners have requested. Notably, in 5.7, all media assignments now use a mobile-ready video player that works on both desktop and mobile devices. All videos uploaded to the NexPort media library will be automatically converted into a web ready mp4 format.
Other enhancements include the addition of waiting periods to test attempts, ordering of test questions, API enhancements and many more. A full listing is provided below. 

NexPort Reporting Services (NRS) version 2.0 will include many enhancements but top among them are enhancements to the dashboard functionality. In NRS, users have been limited to only displaying grid reports in dashboards. With the release of version 2, NRS will introduce a full spectrum of graphs, charts, pivots and visualizations. All of these will be tied to existing reports, including aggregate reports. Additionally, these dashboard widgets will allow users to visualize a snapshot of the report or a trend over a user defined period of time. 

​Check out this video preview made by our senior NRS engineer, Brette Forinash.

In order to continually improve our user's experience, we release updates to the NexPort software on a regular basis. ​NexPort Campus version 5.6.5 addresses several issues found to cause intermittent outages as well as a bug in the rendering of HTML Media Assignments.

If you experience any problems please contact our support team.

NexPort Campus version 5.6.3 was released on 2 Aug 2016 @ 11pm CST. This is a point release and fixes several minor bugs in NexPort Campus. This release contains no breaking changes.

The NexPort Campus 5.6.2 point release was pushed to production tonight at 11pm CDT. 
The 5.6.2 point release focused primarily on enhancements to improve test item reporting through the web api.

Here is a breakdown of the cases resolved:

​Have a great day!

One feature that we are very excited about in NexPort Campus 5.5.0 is the addition of Conditional Prerequisites for assignments. In previous versions NexPort has allowed curriculum developers to assign prerequisites to assignments. These prerequisites allowed the developer to control student progress by blocking an assignment until another assignment(s) was completed. 

This feature has been a part of NexPort for several years. Prerequisites in current versions only allow a student to progress if the prerequisite assignments are both completed and passed. The new prerequisite system will allow developers to define under what condition the prerequisite is passed. Including Passed/Completed, Failed/Completed or In-Progress.

NexPort Campus 5.5.0 is expected to be released in Mid-January, 2016. Check out the video below for more details.

NexPort Solutions Group, a division of Darwin Global LLC, is a systems and software engineering company that provides innovative, cost-effective training solutions and support for federal, state and local government, as well as the private sector. 

NexPort Solutions is currently servicing students in partnership with the following organizations: Smart Horizons Career Online Education, Florida Department of Corrections, Cengage Learning/Gale/ed2go, Advanced Systems Technology, Smart Horizons, Cameron University, Hondros Learning, Walmart, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and the State of NJ Library System. 

For more information on NexPort Solutions, please visit http://www.nexportsolutions.com/. 

NexPort Solutions is proud to announce that we have release version 5.4.0 of NexPort Campus. This release introduces a number of performance enhancements as well as enhancements to the NexPort WebApi and the NexPort WebHooks. We have also expanded the flexibility of our system by introdcuing custom enrollment fields that can be defined at an organization level and used to collect your organizations unique information requirements for each enrollment. 

In previous versions a mastery score could be defined for each assignment. In 5.4.0, curricullm developers can now set a mastery score on an entire section and the system will obey that mastery score when grading a completed enrollment.

5.4.0 continues to improve upon our exceptionally friendly user interface. We've made the classroom view friendlier for students on mobile devices by seperating the assignment listing into it's own scrolling area. With each release we intend to continue to refine to user experience for mobile students.

Finally, NexPort Campus 5.4.0 introduces many bug fixes for minor problems. We continue to make our partner's and student's success our first priority and look forward to many more successful releases. Please look below for a full listing of enhancements, new features and bug fixes in 5.5.0.

OKLAHOMA CITY  - Sep. 22, 2015 – NexPort Solutions released several minor enhancements with today’s release of NexPort Campus version 5.3.3.

Version 5.3.3 includes additional fields for use in both certificates and site-wide VTL templates (group pages, assignment descriptions, etc) as well as additional information display in administrative listings for sections and catalogs. 

The new fields include:

• student.FullAddress or currentUser.FullAddress: The full address of a student in a single line.
• All date fields now have three helper properties for timezones:

Example: 2009-06-15T13:45:30 -> Monday, June 15, 2009 1:45 PM CST
VTL: enrollment.completiondate.fulldate_tz
Certificates: enrollmentCompletionDate.fulldate_tz
        
Example: 2009-06-15T13:45:30 -> 6/15/2009 1:45 PM CDT
VTL: enrollment.completiondate.shortdatetime_tz
Certificate: enrollmentCompletionDate.shortdatetime_tz

Example: CDT
VTL: enrollment.completiondate.timezone_abbr
Certificate: enrollmentCompletionDate.timezone_abbr


The new data in listings include the addition of the Unique Name in administrative listings of sections.


This point release is the result of NexPort Solutions dedication to Continuous Improvement and our desire to meet our customers evolving needs.