These are some systems and functionalities on the long term roadmap with the Core development team. These have come out of community conversations as well as whiteboard sessions with the team. It is subject to change but can help inform the scope of each tool and why something lives where it does. They are also loosely in order based on how much work has been put into them and what we'd consider each at this time.

The Core Architecture: ELMSLN is a package deployment intended to run on its own server. There are also future plans for running "fractal networks" which span servers. The core architecture has been running relatively unmodified since Fall 2013 and is considered very stable.Status: Production

Versions

The closer we get to a 1.0.0, the more people will adopt the platform. We’re currently keeping things at 0.x.x branches to imply that we’re still heavily in development.

1.0.0 - The system has all the capabilities that people think of in an LMS but without being one by any means due to the architectural superiority of the platform.

Production ready parts of ELMS:LN

Course content outline (mooc / courses) - Instructional outline, pacing of the course and textbook replacement type of material. Enhancements in creation workflows and usability are happening regularly but it has been used in production since 2012.

Course Information System (cis / online) - Hub to route all data through to power the learning experience. This has a lot of data that a traditional LMS structures everything around but CIS uses this to influence the course experience, not determine it. This has been used since 2012.

Media / Asset management (elmsmedia / media) - An asset management system to allow for the easy uploading, cataloging, and embedding of assets in course content. This is built on an award winning methodology for keeping media separate and tightly integrated from content / the rest of the setup. Status: This is still gaining functionality and Usability improvements as well as integrations currently only available in the 6.x version (3playmedia specifically). Beta.

Studio (cle / studio) - Place for students to submit images, media, links and be able to get feedback / critique / community. The studio is based on an award winning concept of open critique. This has been used since 2015 and was reimagined in early 2017.

Interactive Course Object Repository (icor / interact) - This is similar to an asset management system but think of a separate system for more complex, sticky types of assets. For example, a timeline. Not a flash / file that you upload to have embedded but that you actually assemble the timeline in ICOR by stitching together dates (content you create) and then are given an embed code you can put anywhere. Similar to ELMSMedia on the surface, but once you start making things in it it's clear that this is different. Some other things this does: Polls, a zip file that's unpacked for embedding for complex things that are interactions of their own. Anything that's overly specific and complex but still sorta media, goes here. Beta

Innovate (ulmus / innovate) - We all have great ideas, but we don't all have the skill sets necessary to bring them to life. Innovate seeks to change that by empowering users to build whatever they want in Drupal as a site builder. Innovate is built on something we call "ulmus" which is a meta-distribution / system, it's the base-line that ALL of our tools share in common. We use this as the branching point to make any new tool in the network, and so we didn't want to be the only ones able to do it. Anyone who can request a course space, can request an innovate space which will create a blank slate ELMSLN tool which has sections, will sync w/ the CIS like anything else, does all the crazy web-services, enables all the modules, makes the roles, etc. We've automated the boring so you can rapid prototype on top. Surprise us, surprise yourself, build the future. Production

Editorial / Journal / Blog (editorial / blog) - A journaling / blog system. This could serve as a blog for the course for the student (or instructor) to make postings throughout the course, or as a way for the student to keep things in a more private journal area to reference / learn from for later. Status: Gaining functionality actively as it will be alpha in Fall 2015. Beta

Compliance (ecd / comply) - Compliance is important for legal matters but shouldn't be hitting you in the face throughout the entire authoring experience. Compliance is a system dedicated to the process of quality, accessibility, authorizations and copyright. This helps provide a paper trail for the rationale behind giving a non-student access to a course (for example a staff member). Status: Needs additional integrations / nightly routines and some streamlining of capabilities but the core functionality is in place. It can automatically issue access overrides to users at a system and course network level. Alpha

Discussions (discuss / discuss) - traditional forum conversations as well as embeddable conversations in the context of other systems. For example you could embed a discussion at the bottom of a page of content in the content system but it's actually taking place in the Discussion engine. Status: Built on top of Harmony Core, this has a lot of raw capability and is stability but needs a usability audit. Alpha

Inbox (inbox / home) - Learner hub. Inbox, Calendar, course overview / dashboard, badges, XAPI learning paths (not statements), progression, analytics (displays, not data) all this is currently envisioned here in some capacity. Status: White-boarded and written down, lots of conversations but no movement yet. Some of these capabilities DO live in a vendor deployment though the code still needs vetted for primary project inclusion. Dev

Assessment (grades / assessment) - The ability to assess work from anywhere (both in and out of network). In network this would make it easier to pull in the information to display but by detaching it from the rest of the systems we can not only throttle permissions / access controls, we can allow for association to things NOT in the system (like participation external to the system, new forms of interaction not currently supported, etc). Status: Needs flushed out fully. There are assessment, rubric and grade-book work that's been undertaken (a lot of it actually) but it hasn't all come together yet. Placeholder only

Program Hub (hub / eph) - This system allows you to produce complex program hubs to either market or unify courses in a program area. This is heavily influx but being developed for an online degree in which we'll want alumni of the program (in the future) to be able to login and talk to current students. It's the cross-section of communications, resources, course lists, advisors, faculty, student interest groups, alumni, everything related to a specific program. These program hubs will be able to be created from CIS when a program is produced (future functionality). Status There is currently thought and design work going into this but not functionality is there Placeholder only

Live Questions (lq / lq) -- Live questions is a tool that can be used for synchronous classroom settings. Think of it as a backchannel that you'd project on a screen next to a teacher, or something TAs can use to more easily field questions. It's intended for classroom augmentation and making conversations easier to have in person by leveraging online without asking students to use social media platforms (which they hate being asked to do). Status A pilot has run of this in a classroom with success though it has not yet been ported over to the LQ system that's found here. Placeholder only