Yellowdig Announces Enhancements to Platform

Feb. 1, 2016 - PRLog -- To enhance instructor teaching by easily allowing instructors and students to broaden and deepen their planned course content with real time content from the world, Yellowdig, the leading Instructor–to-Student(s) social learning software, recently announced various platform enhancements within its Social Learning and Analytics Platform.

Accessibility: Substantial improvements to the application as per WCAG 2.0 standards

Data /APIs: Data export feature is sending a live stream of data of events and content as it happens on the platform. We can send this anywhere, but most often it's either to an S3 bucket or another JSON storage destination (such as a database) managed by our customers. Also added other method of extracting data is by pulling data from us on demand

Privacy: Enhanced password security, additional data encryption and access controls

New Functionality: Added frequently requested features such as LaTeX support, weekly maximum points, show on top of feed, board administrators,password less login, trending topics

Shaunak Roy, Yellowdig Founder & CEO says, “We are relentlessly focused on innovating the platform based on faculty and student feedback. These recent enhancements significantly raise the platform’s ability to make online and hybrid learning more collaborative and fun. Increasingly the platform is becoming more differentiated while delivering more value to our customers. Our development roadmap is loaded with further product releases aimed at enhancing engagement outside the classroom along with embedded data analytics dashboards designed to support measuring, learning, and adapting to improve educational experience and outcome for students and instructors.

Scott Barnette, Yellowdig EVP Sales explains, “Our Higher Ed market uptake has been exceptional and across very diverse customer segments. Signing up customer pilots is happening on a rolling weekly basis and with increasing frequency. This unique market vetts suppliers very carefully in terms of product capabilities and management trustworthiness. After institutions complete their brief evaluations involving their faculty and students, we experience a 100% conversion beyond the pilot stage. But the critical foundation to our rapid market acceptance has been the company’s rigorous intensity on value-adding product development and high touch sales & support.”