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Shika 1.2.7 is here with more than 20 bug fixes

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We are happy to bring you Shika 1.2.7 with more than 20 bug fixes. We strongly suggest you take a full site backup before updating Shika to the latest version as a best practice. Please read the upgrade instructions and detailed changelog before upgrading. Also, go through the Shika 1.2 release notes and instructions in case you are updating Shika 1.2.7 directly from Shika 1.1.x.

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Shika 1.2.8 is here!

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We are happy to bring you Shika 1.2.8 which is primarily a bug fix release. We strongly suggest you take a full site backup before updating Shika to the latest version as a best practice.

Please read the upgrade instructions and detailed changelog before upgrading. Also, go through the Shika 1.2 release notes and instructions in case you are updating Shika 1.2.8 directly from Shika 1.1.x.

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Creating Rich Personalised Certificates with Shika

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Isn’t it a great feeling when you are rewarded and recognised when you complete a milestone or a goal? Online courses are no different. In fact, for online courses, recognition is even more important as they lack the physical touch points and personal motivation that is usually part of ‘In Person’ learning.  Low completion rates are the biggest bane of online learning. Rewards and recognition is a great way to fight this.

Personalised certificates are just one of the many features that Shika offers to let you reward your users.

A certificate is much more than a piece of paper. It is a recognition of one’s work and gives a sense of entitlement.They are a great way to showcase your achievements & add to one’s academic and work profile.

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Shika 1.2.6 is here with two brand new features and minor bug fixes!

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We’ve done back to back releases of Shika in the last few days - v1.2.5 which was a bug fix and security release and 1.2.6 which fixes a few bugs and introduces 2 new features.

As our endeavour, our security team is continuously trying to make Techjoomla products safer. We recommend you upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible.

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Shika 1.2.3 is here with ajax based reports!

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Shika 1.2.3 introduces an infrastructure upgrade with TJ Reports bringing Ajax to the reporting engine. We have also added a UX fix where now you can see enrolled users in a course in a popup. Besides this, we have 20+ bug fixes. We recommend you upgrade to this version soon.

Read the release notes carefully before upgrading to the latest version. Also, go through 1.2 release notes and instruction in case you are updating Shika 1.2.3 directly from Shika 1.1.x.

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Shika 1.1.13 is here with the new Box API

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We are happy to bring you Shika 1.1.13 which brings an updated Box API integration which is used for rendering document type lessons.

The older version of our plugin was using legacy Box view APIs which will be having their EOL late this year. Hence the older version is being deprecated. You can find out more about the EOL announcement from box here : https://blog.box.com/blog/new-box-view. Make sure you update and migrate your documents to the new BOX API ASAP. Not migrating can break your lessons using BOX in the future. 

This new release is a HUGE step as it opens the doors to several new document types to be supported in the near future as the new API allows for high-fidelity, interactive viewers for documents, images, videos, 360 images and videos, 3D files and dozens of other file types. We will be working on bringing these new enhancements to you as we extend our tracking capabilities to the new file types.

Read on for details and instructions on setting up and migrating to the new plugin.

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Shika 1.2 is here with teacher and manager reports, Bootstrap 3 support and more !

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The wait is over! We are super excited to announce the release of Shika 1.2 which brings Bootstrap 3 support, User Hierarchy awareness and a plethora of reporting enhancements with TJ reports integration. Between TJ Reports and Hierarchy awareness it is now possible for managers to view reports of a user reporting to them. What’s more, the reporting now also understands the concept of ownership and allows Course creators to view reports about the courses created by them.

Please note that this is a major release and involves a migration which is however painless. Also since the layouts have been revamped to support Bootstrap 3, any overrides you have done might need some rework. On installation do not forget to click the ‘Fix’ buttons on both Shika and Jlike Components. Detailed instructions are given in the release notes. Make sure you read them carefully before you upgrade !!

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Techjoomla collaborates with Themexpert for integration of Shika LMS with Academia v3.0

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Techjoomla is happy to announce our new collaboration with Themexpert for integration of our popular Joomla LMS- Shika with the Academia v3.0 Joomla template from Themexpert.

Academia v3.0

Academia is a 100% responsive educational Joomla template, that is perfect for any type of educational organization. It is crafted with 3 homepage variations and 20 built-in pages.

If you are looking for a beautiful template that offers an official Shika LMS integration, then this is the one we highly recommend.

Shika users can use the coupon code ACADEMIA3 to get a 30% discount on Academia. Note that the coupon code is valid till 31st October, 2017.

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Read on to get details of what the integration offers.  

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Shika 1.1.11 is here!

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We are happy to release Shika 1.1.11 with some new features, improvements and bug fixes. We recommend you to upgrade to Shika 1.1.11 as soon as possible. Also don’t forget to read the release notes before upgrading for instructions regarding backward compatibility breaks. Read on for the complete changelog.

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Shika 1.1.12 is here!

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We are happy to release Shika 1.1.12 with feature support for AltaUserPoints and some bug fixes. We recommend you to upgrade to Shika 1.1.12 as soon as possible. Also don’t forget to read the release notes before upgrading for instructions related to backward compatibility breaks. Read on for the complete changelog.

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Shika Roadmap Update !

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If you have been following our blogs and social channels, you will know that we have released several incremental updates in the 1.1x series. In fact we have had to break typical semantic versioning policy in order to push in several small feature updates that could not wait till the next major version. It has also been decided to introduce Bootstr...

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iSpring SCORM officially supported in Shika !

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We are happy to announce that Shika now has official support for iSpring SCORM content. Shika developers and technical experts at iSpring recently conducted compatibility tests to ensure that iSpring content works well with Shika. Authoring good quality SCORM content can be a long and exhausting process. iSpring makes this a breeze ! With iSpring’s...

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Shika 1.1.10 is here!

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We are happy to bring you Shika 1.1.10 with some bug fixes and usability improvements. We recommend you to upgrade as soon as possible. Do read the release notes before upgrading. Read on for the complete changelog.

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Shika 1.1.9 is out with hierarchy based assignments

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We are happy to announce the release of Shika 1.1.9 which is a feature and maintenance release. We have consciously made a decision to do releases in the 1.1x series that move away from the ideal principle of semantic versioning in order to fill feature gaps in the 1.1x series before embarking on the next true major release which will be 1.2. So expect to see more feature releases in the 1.1x branch that make the extension more solid and enterprise ready. 

This release introduces a new feature that has been a horizontal extension for Techjoomla but wasn't released as yet - com_hierarchy. This lets you set context specific hierarchy relations between users. The utilisation for this is mainly to set training managers for users. These 'Managers' shall be able to assign & enrol courses to users under them from the frontend with the new Assignment workflow that is also released in this version. This is also a dependency to our migration to TJ reports which will allow for features like Teacher reports and Manager reports in v1.1.10. 

Besides this major feature, we have also introduced a configuration for Certificate orientation & introduced a spent time column in the attempts view on the frontend. 

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Shika 1.1 released with 20+ features !

Shika 1.1 released with 20+ features !

It's here! Shika 1.1 is out with 20+ spectacular new features that will take learning with Joomla to a whole new level. With Shika its always been our goal to give you a scalable learning management system that's not only simple to use but can also scale and adapt to various learning needs. In this release we take another step closer to that goal.  

When version 1.0 was released, we had decided that for the next few releases we will do less new features per release and release faster. However we ended up having to increase the features planned for the release as we had a lot of merge requests pending from our customization teams. Delaying these merges would have meant complicating things for future releases. So it was decided that 1.1 will end up being a much bigger release than originally planned. 

Shuffling for Questions and answers, Event as lesson, Automatic random quiz generation, Link as lesson, Assignments and Goals are just some of the features that come to you in this release !  The net total if you include all the minor features goes upto 24 or so new features and a lot of bug fixes and improvements.

Please note that this release is a 'Major Release' and thus needs a migration. The Migration is pretty painless but you need to run it in both Shika as well as jLike post installation. Once you install the release, make sure you click the 'Fix' buttons in the left corner on the Shika and jLike component pages. Also make sure you read the release notes carefully before you upgrade !!

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Here's a Surprise offer for you ! Use the coupon SHIKA11LAUNCH to get a 15% Discount when you Purchase Shika or JTicketing ! Offer expires 5th January. 

Read on to see the full list of features and their details...

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