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Just started studying with us? Thinking of studying online? Here are some brilliant tips to make the most out of studying with us from one of our recent graduates Nina-Jane #OnlineLearning #UOD

Just because I share something online doesn’t mean it’s automatically right for you. Whether it’s my AI roleplay projects or my work with xAPI. I share to spark ideas and show what’s possible but never to prescribe solutions. xAPI is a data specification that helps you track and connect learning activity across different tools and platforms. But like any technology, it’s only valuable if it fits your goals and infrastructure. You don’t need xAPI to collect learning data outside of an LMS, and there are plenty of ways to capture data within one too. It’s one option, not the only one but there are extremely good reasons why some teams choose it. The same applies to my Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) session at DevLearn. We’ll explore xAPI together, and one of the end goals is to help you decide if it even makes sense for your organization. We’ll start by discussing what xAPI is, what it does versus other data standards and specs, and where it fits in a data strategy. Then we’ll move into a hands-on activity so you can see it in action. By both discussing and doing, you’ll leave with the clarity to decide whether xAPI is the right fit for your learning ecosystem or if your time and effort are better spent elsewhere. #DevLearn #xAPI #LearningDesign #instructionaldesign #elearning #DevLearn2025

How important is picture proof of delivery (PPOD)? Listen to the latest update from Dave + Amy Byers on this week's episode of Industry Insights with Route Consultant! #pickupanddelivery #ppod #pictureproofofdelivery #fedexdelivery #routeconsultant

Apple’s iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 bring powerful new features to the classroom — and Jamf is ready to help schools make the most of them. Jamf provides same-day compatibility and education-focused workflows to keep students engaged, teachers supported, and IT teams confident. 👉 Read more about the new features and Jamf’s support: https://okt.to/2eG5KB #Jamf #Apple #EdTech #iPadOS26 #macOS26 #Education

“Super reliable. It just works.” That’s how York University summed up their experience with AppsAnywhere. And honestly? We couldn’t have put it better ourselves. In higher ed, IT teams are constantly asked to cut costs, reorganize systems, and adapt to ever-changing student needs. Reliability can be the difference between smooth sailing and daily firefighting⛵>👨🚒. York chose AppsAnywhere to simplify software delivery, reduce headaches, and keep students focused on what matters most: learning. Learning wherever they are, from whatever device they're on, whenever they choose. And in the middle of all the change, one thing stayed solid💙👩🎓. 👉 Read York University’s full story: https://hubs.li/Q03M5H800 #HigherEd #StudentSuccess #AppsAnywhere #EdTech #BYOD #StudentExperience #CloudDelivery #DigtalCampus #SoftwareDelivery #YorkUniversity

𝐄𝐝𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞: 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 a shared environment. This means ten different students can use the same tablet in one day. Each with their own login, learning pace, and privacy requirements. Unlike personal devices, school hardware often runs on limited bandwidth, older OS versions, and tight admin controls. And yet, these setups power thousands of classrooms worldwide. So if you want your app to actually work in real classrooms, you need to build it with a different mindset. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Use strict session lifetimes, auto-logouts, and isolated sandboxes for each user. Implement local encryption for temporary files, and always clear cached data after every logout. This is what keeps students’ personal progress data from leaking into another profile. 𝐆𝐨 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭. Many classrooms in rural or low-resource areas don’t have stable connectivity. Offline-first design (with local data sync queues and lightweight storage) ensures lessons, quizzes, and attendance tracking work seamlessly even when Wi-Fi drops. 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬. Use token-based authentication or QR-based classroom logins. For example, a teacher’s dashboard could generate a rotating QR code for the session, which students scan and join securely. 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. Shared tablets can quickly run out of space if every session stores its own heavy media. Compress resources, preload adaptive content, and cache only what’s absolutely needed. When possible, stream large files from a local school server instead of cloud APIs. 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. Design the app’s permission structure early: which features can a student trigger? Which data can a teacher edit? Which metrics can an admin export? This structure prevents misuse and keeps interactions safe, especially when multiple users share a single screen. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 “𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐔𝐗,” 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐗. In shared classrooms, your app must support both personal learning and group work. Design transitions for teacher-led switching. For instance, from “student quiz mode” to “shared whiteboard mode” with a single tap. #EdTech #EducationTechnology #EdTechStartups #DigitalLearning #ClassroomTech #CustomSoftwareDevelopment 

How do you correct drivers on PPOD? Hear about Dave and Amy Byers' experience with PPOD in this week's episode of Industry Insights with Route Consultant 🎧 #pickupanddelivery #ppod #pictureproofofdelivery #fedexdelivery #routeconsultant

A by-product of the VR/AR/AI brouhaha is that the tools we actually use all day aren't getting any useful upgrades. Style changes, yes. Utility-enhancing upgrades, not so much. Hypothesis: because learning is costly, and because transfer learning makes it hard for us to replace existing tools and ways of working with new ones, the steady stream of updates makes people *less* willing to invest time in getting the most out of their new tools, because these will just be changed again later on anyway, wasting their effort. The photo shows a macOS modal that asks what to do with a mail message that hasn't been sent. Save, Don't Save (i.e. discard, but it doesn't say that), or Cancel. A key issue in this interface design is the lack of color contrast in the "Don't Save" button, which indicates, frankly, that not one person in the design-dev-test-qa chain was able or willing to do the job right, by which I mean "is perceivable", a key success criterion. The style borrows from iOS, and the argument is that modals on macOS need to work the way Action Sheets in iOS do. But where iOS wisely did not replicate interface conventions from Windows-Icon-Mouse-Pointer (WIMP) genres and therefore invented Action Sheets to support user tasks, we are seeing the reverse happen with macOS. A very tricky question here is whether a) Apple is able to sell more computers to new users by re-using interface elements that people might recognize from their phones (instrumental), or whether b) it's more important to use the applicance-oriented interface style found on watches, tv boxes, tablets, etc on _all_ their devices, including WIMP-oriented computers ("ideological"). Because all interaction design is, in the end, a matter of cultural convention (with a little human factors buried deep underneath), we can't really argue that one style, at a global level, is better in some absolute fashion, and must instead leverage instrumental arguments ("easier to get done", "fewer failures", "faster learning", etc) to advance our opinions. But we can argue for it at the local, individual level. What worries me is not that Apple has started making som really odd choices. Just look at Windows 8, where whole teams agreed that moving the start bar was better, only to have millions of people who were leveraging years of muscle memory to use a start bar that was actually never very good, but now locked in via "learning transfer" (look it up, it's really cool) rebel against the slight interface change. In sw for audio / video / CAD / gaming / development you see folks fine-tuning their setups and then fighting tooth and claw against unwanted changes. In most other things (looking at you, knowledge workers), that doesn't seem to be happening as much. Links in the comments.

In Kubernetes, your application doesn’t run alone — it lives inside something called a 🧩 𝐏𝐨𝐝. A Pod can have more than one container inside it. Each container has a different purpose — some prepare things before the app starts, and some help the app while it’s running. Let’s look at two special types 👇 🏁 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 An 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 runs first, before your main app starts. ⚙ Its job is to prepare the environment. Examples:  🕓 Waits for the database to be ready  📥 Downloads configuration files  🗂 Sets permissions or creates folders Only after this container finishes successfully, the main application starts. 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 🎬 Think of a movie shoot — before filming starts, the crew sets up cameras, lighting, and the set. Once everything is ready, the actors (your main app) can start acting — that setup process is what the Init Container does. 🤝 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 A 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 runs 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 your main app. 🧠 It doesn’t prepare things beforehand — instead, it works side-by-side to help the app. Examples:  📊 Collects logs  🧠 Monitors your app  🌐 Sends data or acts as a network proxy 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 ✈ Think of an airplane — the pilot flies the plane (your main app), and the co-pilot (the sidecar) assists by checking instruments and ensuring safety. They work together. 🔁 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩 ⚙ 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 → Prepares the setup before the app runs. 🧩 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 → Works beside the app to add support and extra functions. #Kubernetes #DevOps #Containers #CloudComputing #Microservices

Minimizing and maximizing windows—because nothing says productivity like a perfectly organized desktop—unless you're still trying to find the "maximize" button with your keyboard. This article walks you through the essentials of managing window states in Windows 11, emphasizing quick actions to keep your workspace clean whether you're multitasking or focusing. It provides step-by-step guidance on tucking away or expanding open apps for better workflow efficiency. For a product manager, understanding these small yet impactful UI controls highlights the importance of user-centric design and efficiency in software interfaces, especially amidst a world that demands faster, more intuitive tech solutions. Thanks to Milan Stanojevic for these crisp insights into window management. #UI #UX #Efficiency #Windows11 First published: October 2023