ThinkQuest

August 22, 2008 Changes

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My Home - My Class and My Site become My Home.
My School - New Portal Schools now have a unique portal. The portal combines school projects, school directory, people online from your school, administration into one area. It will make creating and managing accounts easier.
World - Go beyond your school and interact in a global environment. Work on global projects and meet people from another country.
Competition - The current ThinkQuest competition. It will be integrated into the environment.
Library - Access a wealth of knowledge drawing from over 6,500 projects.
Help - One stop shop to provide help and support as well as teaching resources.

NEW: One location for all school activity
NEW: Student (display only) access to school setting and people
NEW: Sub-navigation scheme that allows for jumps within school without leaving school
NEW: Active projects connects user's with projects that are relevant and not just new
NEW: Distinguish Teacher's online from Student's online
Integrate admin tools within my school
Integrate people online within my school
My School Projects take center stage in the new second tab access (instead of people)
Categories: Replace sub-categories with actual projects
More buddies (remove limit)

NEW: Ability to see all accounts in one view
NEW: Display last login date
NEW: Ability to narrow selection based on multiple criteria: alpha, level and login
NEW: Display user account level (admin, teacher, grade)
NEW: User counts
NEW: Search
NEW: Highlight expiring accounts (in red, 12 months without login)
Consolidate Manage Accounts with Directory

NEW: Schools Online - Promote the global community & connect with active schools
NEW: Access to active/relevant projects (same as school)