Fronter Y is the new naming convention for release numbers of Fronter, whereby Y10 means Year 2010. Fronter will have one main release per year in the summer but will in addition release new functionality during the year in point releases. New functionality will by default be turned off to allow administrators to decide when they want to introduce new functionality to its users.

 

Goal module

The new goal module replaces the existing learning goal functionality. Administrators can use a national goal structure or create their own self-defined goals. The new module includes matrices and visualisations, making it possible to track progress in multiple ways. Within a room, the goal module can make use of general goals e.g. nationally defined goal structure, school defined goals or custom goals defined by the teacher. Students can access an overview of all goals assigned to them, with their evaluation and the chance to feedback on their personal progress..

 

 

 

 Individual learning plan (ILP)

The ILP is a tool for teachers and students enabling individual follow up and tracking of a student’s progress through school. The ILP provides a simple interface for teachers to organise individual meetings, parent meetings, collection of progress reports from subject teachers and self review from students.
Teachers who have shared responsibilities for a course, subject or a class, can enter their assessments of the student in this tool and have easy access to work that the students have carried out. Parents can easily follow the student evaluation from the Parental login, and then give comments back to the teachers.


 

Embedded video to a Page

 

To add video to Fronter page, we have improved the MediaConsol with an interface to paste embedded code from for instance YouTube.

 

 


Background colours to Articles and Pages

A new colour picker to set background colour to Articles and Pages is now available.

 
 

Container configuration tool

 In the Page tool a new container configuration allows users to set border thickness, container colour and text background colour on each individual container within a Page, Article and Learning path.

 


 

 

 

 Espresso support (UK customers)

A new feature which allows the user to insert Espresso content directly in to a Page.

 


 

Online reporting (UK customers)

Fronter’s Online reporting system enables schools to meet UK Government targets for providing information to parents. Parents can access key data from the schools MIS system as well as information on the child’s learning from within Fronter.


 

 

Scorm courses

A completely new backend for Scorm courses has been built in order to give better performance, better search of data from a Scorm course in the Portfolio.


 



Forgotten password 

Users who have forgotten their Fronter password can request for a temporary password, sent by sms or e-mail.  (SMS requires purchase of SMS service)


 

 

Multiple users 

Fronter has added an option which prevents a user to log in with the same username/password simultaneously. This prevents students from sharing accounts and from unknowingly leaving sessions open.

 

 Template room

Create a template room and assign to an org.unit. All automatically created rooms from a room import will be a copy of the template room.

 


 

 

Start of Year improvements

The functionality for End of Year/ Start of Year to support transitions between school years has been improved with new features that enable administrators to

  • copy or merge new rooms on behalf of teachers
  • differentiate archived rooms with the same name
  • separate archived rooms in disk storage statistics.

 


 

 Open API improvements

More features have been added to the Fronter API to support easier integration with 3rd party applications.

 

 


 


 

 Resource Gateway

Fronter has now integrated with the Resource Gateway tool provided by Pearson. The Resource Gateway offers primary schools access to over 80 digital titles to use within their Fronter platform, and comes complete with over £400 worth of content to use straight away. With the Resource Gateway you can: 

  • Find resources by keyword, subject or by objective 
  • Play resources within your platform
  • Preview all resources for free 
  • Save links to resources in your rooms
Visit www.resourcegateway.co.uk to find out more.
The Resource Gateway is implemented as a room tool, using the Fronter Open API.

 

 

User Administrative System (UAS)

Fronter UAS is a user administrative system, where all user administration for Fronter and other systems is handled. It is possible to automatically generate usernames and passwords for imported users and to manage authentication methods such as Shibboleth and Feide (Norway).


 


 

 Fronter Navigation

During Fronter Y we will start introducing a new and improved navigation for customers to test. This will include tab based access to multiple open rooms and tools as well as other work flow functionalities.

 

 


 


 

Other

  • SMS log - A new improved SMS log interface for sent text messages.
  • Copy page - A new option to choose either to include any linked resources when you copy a page or point to their original location.
  • Content providers (for Norwegian customers) - new content providers have been added to the External search tool (LRE): NDLA, NRK and Aschehoug.
  • Help system – the Fronter help files have been updated in English, Norwegian and French, other languages will follow.
  • Fronter in 3 new languages- Three new languages have been added to Fronter. If active in your installation they can be selected whilst logging in or from the Today page.
    - Brazilian Portuguese
    - Turkish
    - Japanese