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Velocity5.0

Learning management system for schools and higher education

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Monthly digests of accessibility work and legacy retirement, with SCORM now a paid line item

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◆Current state
itslearning ships one dated digest a month and the composition barely varies: a small number of interface changes, an accessibility pass, and a fix table. September continues exactly that - teachers can permanently delete a content block straight from its More options menu instead of archiving then clearing the Archive, and the global and course menus now stay visible inside a single plan page to satisfy accessibility requirements. Across eleven months no digest introduces a new capability category; the work is making the existing platform accessible and less iframe-bound. The one structural move remains subtraction.
◆Where it's heading
The retirement schedule is still the real roadmap - Test 2.0 losing editing, the Icodeon player swapped for Rustici on active sites in August, the project Links page deleted as cleanup. September's menu-persistence change comes from the same accessibility-compliance driver that has filled most of these digests all year, and net-new features continue to trace back to the German Development Project rather than a general product thesis. The monthly digest keeps shrinking toward a fix table plus one or two compliance-driven interface changes.
◆Prediction
The next digest should carry more frameless conversions and accessibility passes, with any genuinely new feature likely arriving through the GDP partnership. The entries still do not say what schools that decline the paid SCORM add-on at renewal are expected to use instead.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    One-step content block deletion, persistent menus in plans

    A thin digest carrying two real interface changes: permanent deletion directly from a content block's menu, removing the archive-then-delete detour, and global and course menus that stay visible inside plan pages. The second is the same accessibility-compliance navigation work that has filled these digests all year.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Fixes for assessment scrolling, course copy and page errors

    A fixes-only month - assessment scrolling, a course-copy permission error, course templates - with no product updates section at all. This is the floor the feed periodically hits between compliance pushes.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Personal Files area rebuilt for accessibility and Office editing

    The personal Files area rebuilt for modern design, improved accessibility and in-place Office editing. One of the larger interface conversions in the accessibility-and-retirement program, and additive rather than subtractive for once.

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  4. 2mo ago

    SCORM player swaps to Rustici and becomes a paid add-on

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    The SCORM swap is the sharpest edge of the same retirement program that covers Test 2.0 and the project Links page - but this one changes commercial terms, not just code. Font selection shipped alongside it as routine accessibility work.

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  5. 3mo ago

    Links page retired from projects in a code cleanup

    The project Links page deleted as code cleanup, with a fix table behind it. Subtraction on a published deadline is this platform's most consistent form of change.

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  6. 4mo ago

    Information Hub adds a non-academic course type

    The Information Hub added a non-academic course type for communication and resource sharing, suppressing plans and task lists to avoid empty states. One of the few genuinely additive moves in the window.

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