Thank you for a successful Year
With the school year coming to a close for most of the U.S., Nic and I wanted to send a big thank you to all the Edmodo users that have helped make Edmodo a success. It has blown our mind since launching in September of 2008, 37,786 students and teachers have signed up for Edmodo, created 6,799 groups, and posted over 320,000 times.
I really don’t want to reflect that much on our past year as one’s past does not dictate the future. There are lots of exciting changes coming in Edmodo and that’s what I’m going talk about below.
Edmodo going forward
Nic has been hard at work coding version 3.0 which we hope to release in a few weeks so you will have a chance to play and get accustomed to it before the new school year starts in the fall.
The biggest change for the end-user is how replies are handled. Replies will be handled inline underneath posts instead of being treated as a new post and going to the top of the stream. If your familiar with comments on Facebook then you will have no problem adjusting to the new reply system on Edmodo. This has been our most frequent request since launching Edmodo.
The next biggest change is the right hand side panel for Alerts, Assignments, & Events with be going away in favor of a Spotlight area which will highlight anything new in your Edmodo stream, including replies, assignments, upcoming events, and more.
Another thing that you may notice is a much speedier experience. Nic has been hard at work on a new caching system that will eliminate the need to hit our database as much navigating your streams.
One question I have been asked a lot is how we are going to monetize. Edmodo is a free product without any advertising. Now is the time for us to begin answering this question. The Edmodo that you know and love will continue to be free, but we are going to be adding premium applications and features that will be able to be added on top of the free product. Our goal is start off with at least 3 premium applications for the fall and continue to add more throughout the year.
- A full featured grade book application with export capabilities
- An attendance application
- A lesson planner which will automatically post assignments to edmodo when the date comes up
- A simple group page where persistent resources and information can be stored
- A quiz/testing applicication
We also want to release a version of Edmodo that individual schools and districts can purchase to integrate with their existing IT infrastructure.
Edmodo Goals for 2009-2010 school year
- release Edmodo 3.0
- release premium features
- release a version schools can run on their own servers
- release a web based mobile version
- release a native iPhone application
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