1. eText School Monthly Meeting March 2011

2. Agenda Release Calendar v4.3.1 CD Hotfix - March 17
v4.3.3 eText - March 26
v4.4 CM - End of April
V4.4 - Early June
eText Portal Integration Update
iPad Update
Q&A

3. v4.3.1 Hotfix and Outage Hotfix issued March 17 PROD2 outage March 10
Fixed CD ROM Mac launching problem
Issue was caching of Flex framework file
New masters cut for two teams
Providing Customer Support with workaround for in-field issues that arise
PROD2 outage March 10
Caused by lack of disk space
New policy to prevent future occurrence

4. v4.3.3 Target release date: March 26th Bug fixes
Adds new integration (S11) for HiEd
Release notes will be added to Wiki

5. Content Manager v4.4 Content Manager only Target date: late April
Focused on usability and productivity improvements such as:
An interface to facilitate partial ingestion of individual pages and page ranges
An interface to facilitate entering information without having to download and directly edit the XML
No customer-facing downtime

6. eText v4.4 Target release date: early June Planned enhancements:
Support for RUMBA authentication
Watermarks for printing
Y coordinate
CCNG Support for HiEd
New language support:
Turkish
Traditional Mandarin
Norwegian
Bug fixes

7. eText Portal Integration
Product Type
User Registration and Access*
Note sharing and eText personalizations
PSN course
Users can obtain two logins:
PSN
RUMBA
Standard PSN reg with access codes
RUMBA teacher self-reg for eText for iPad
For “live” eTexts, teachers can share notes with students using eText on Mac/Windows
eText for iPad is an extra copy that can not share notes and highlights with Mac/Windows view
PSN+ course
RUMBA teacher self-reg
Same login for Mac/Windows and iPad
Teachers can share notes with all students (Mac/Windows or iPad)
User notes, bookmarks and highlighting are viewable from both Mac/Windows and iPad
Institutional Standalone
Portal will provide:
Pages for teacher/student register
Instructions to download iPad app
eText access – TBD
Teacher can not set up a course and share notes with students
Users can add personal notes, bookmarks and highlights to their eTexts
*In any registration scenario, teachers are responsible for adding students.

8. iPad Update Demo titles using HiEd app New School app
12 titles now available
26 titles in process
Contact Jenn McDonald for access
New School app
Development scheduled to be complete by June
Can’t be accessed until Portal is released around July 1st
Will migrate Demo titles to PROD2
Updates to Wiki documents
PPT
Q&A

9. Second Half of Year Development of a non-iPad, mobile eText solution
Your input is welcome!
Integration of eText with Documentum

10. Visit our Wiki: http://cmsna.pearson.com/groups/etext/
Questions?
Jane Stanhope
Phone:
Visit our Wiki: