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New Release of CourseMill LMS Adds Multiple Tweaks

• By Dian Schaffhauser
• 08/15/13

A company with a learning management system (LMS) primarily used for professional development — but also in standard higher education classes — has updated the software to improve reporting and management. Version 6.8.2 of CourseMill from Lectora delivers a number of new enhancements:

• Single sign-on through support of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML);
• Use of an "exempt student" status in the gradebook module;
• Re-enrollment notice — when the system re-enrolls a student, the action is noted in the gradebook module and appears in the student's transcript;
• Denial notification that sends students who have been denied enrollment a message;
• Automatic addition of an e-commerce shopping cart image when that type of implementation is being used; and
• Easier access through the LMS to functionality in other Lectora programs, including Talent Management and Mobile.

CourseMill provides standard LMS features, such as discussion forums, real-time chat, the ability to host videos, audio, and documents. It also includes:

• Mobile support, giving students access to LMS features from their smartphones;
• Blended learning support, automatically placing course information about faculty-led instruction directly into students' calendars;
• Multi-language versions, including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, and Mandarin;
• The ability for students to self-register and unregister; and
• Multiple instructor support for a single course.

The software is available as an on-premise program or as a cloud-based application. It has been used by instructors at Michigan Virtual University and Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.