Learning Management System (LMS) for Joomla
Simplifying ELearning ... One lesson at a time! A Social Learning Management Extension for Joomla. Powerpacked with awesome features for your dream ELearning site
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Shika in Marathi means 'to learn'. Shika is a Learning Management System (LMS) for Joomla. With Shika, our aim is to make teaching and learning online easy and intuitive. Though we are coming out with the public release of this product now, its been in continuous development over the last 3 years and is part of the production learning infrastructure of several of our clients.
Building this application has been a learning experience for us as well and given us a chance to innovate. With inputs from teachers, corporate clients as well e-learning content development companies, we have structured Shika such that we can solve a variety of learning needs. We believe that listening to clients and working with them gives us much more insight and makes products stronger and more tuned to your needs.
Features Overview
Admin Features
MailChimp and ACY mailing integration
To make sure that your mailing is awesomely creative and effective we’ve integrated mailchimp and ACY mailing to make it happen
Associated Data clean up when a course or lesson is deleted
No orphans will be created after deleting a Course or a Lesson. Shika ensures systematic cleanup of the associated data after deletion.
Email configurations
Admin has the liberty to choose which actions in the system should trigger an email
ACL for Backend views
Admin can setup more customized ACL and grant access on a more granular level.
Edit Attempt
Admin has the liberty to change the completion status of any attempt of any lesson / quiz and the score of any attempt of the quiz. And also the power to delete a lesson / quiz attempt. This way he can reset any attempt of any lesson / quiz of a user.
Hierarchy based assignments
Com_hierarchy lets you set context specific hierarchy relations between users which is further used to set training managers for users.
Integrations
Integration with Academia v3.0 template from Themexpert
Shika LMS integrates seamlessly with the beautiful Academia template from Themexpert that is a perfect fit for all educational purposes. Academia also offers 3 homepage variations and 20 built-in pages.
Safe Exam Browser Integration
Safe Exam Browser integration is a popular web browser environment for carrying out e-assessments safely and securely. Safe Exam Browser (SEB) Integration in Shika 1.3.10 brings the ability to conduct exams securely. With this, you can lock down the system to only access the Shika instance and any other application you expressly want to allow. The integration allows you to configure Shika courses that should be locked down for access only through a SEB environment.
Integration with JoomlaShine for JSN eCourse template
Techjoomla has collaborated with JoomlaShine for the integration of our popular Joomla LMS - Shika with the brand new JSN eCourse template from JoomlaShine
Google Data Studio integration for TJ Reports
Shika 1.3.31 introduces the integration of our infrastructure extension TJ Reports with Google Data Studio to create stunning interactive reports using the data collected by Google Data studio from various sources.
Support for JMailAlerts plugins
Users will receive alerts regarding recently added courses, recommended courses, ongoing courses and popular courses.
Email for site administrator when user exhausts the attempts and fails to pass the lesson
Site administrators are sent an email when the user exhausts the allowed attempts and fails to pass the lesson.
Reports - Admin
Category Report
Know how many courses a category has with the category level overview along with the number of students enrolled against those courses and their course completion status
Course Owner/Teacher Reports
With this feature we allow a Course owner to see reports of courses created by them.
Manager reports
Shika 1.2 introduces support for com_hierarchy that allows for manager-employee relations. This has been used in TJ reports to provide the infrastructure for manager reports. Via this feature a user who has users reporting to them in the hierarchy system will be able to access reports for their reportees.
Report Access Control
TJ Reports introduces the ability to set access on a per report basis. You can configure this in the report edit screen and choose which Joomla user groups have ‘View All’ access or have ‘View’ access. Administrators can be given view all access. This defaults to view which means you can view reports of items you own.
Report Configuration
If you are in a mood to explore and do further customisations to reports, TJ reports supports report configuration where you can customise what fields from the report superset load by default. You can do this using the Params section in the report configuration. We will be releasing detailed documentation on this soon. Between this feature and access control, you can create different versions of a single report for 2 different user groups.
Send bulk email to the site users from the user report
Site administrators can update multiple users at once with the bulk email option from the user report.
Feedback-Exercise-Quiz Report
Feedback-exercise-quiz report has a summary report that displays each field that has received at least one response in the form of charts
SCORM Reports
With Shika 1.3.38, we have introduced two new reports-SCORM report and SCORM summary report. SCORM Report displays the user information and user responses vis a vis correct responses etc while the SCORM Summary Report- It displays the user information like correct response, average interaction duration etc
Organisation and Search
Multi level Categorization
Categories can be used to organise your courses and make them easier to find for your LMS users. You can either make a single level category structure or choose to do nested categorisation depending on the kind of content you have.
Tagging
Sometimes a strict hierarchical structure can be restricting to your organisation needs. A tag based organisation can give you a lot of additional flexibility to manage and display your content.
Search
As your LMS grows in terms of content, finding content can get a little difficult with normal organisation based navigation. Search is the best way to find the content you want. Shika extends Joomla Search with a search plugin to let your users quickly find the content they want.
Course and lesson alias
With Alias for Courses and Lessons they’re going to be more Search Engine Friendly.
Course fields support for course filters
Site administrators can add course fields to the course filters.
Course Management
Modules
Modules are used to club together a set of lessons and quizzes together. This allows for better intra course organization and better presentation. With the release of Shika 1.1.11, modules are collapsed by default for the courses in the frontend.
Drag and Drop Course management
Courses can contain lots of modules and they in turn can have lots of lessons and quizzes. Our drag and drop course management tool make it easy to rearrange your content as per your needs.
Prerequisite to define specific learning paths
In some cases, it is necessary to enforce a certain flow in which a user can access a lesson. The order in which you want the user to go through the lessons in the course is called a Learning path. Learning paths are created by setting prerequisites against a lesson. You can set one or more lessons as the eligibility criteria to access a lesson.
Associated Files
You can support lessons by giving additional study material or notes using the associated files feature. Multiple files can be made available against each lesson and are offered to the course with the lesson.
Joomla ACL support
Whether you are deploying a LMS in a large organisation or you want to restrict access for your specific workflows, ACL can be a great help. Joomla ACL support for courses lets you simple as well as complex ACL scenarios to restrict or allow access as required.
Dashboard Widgets
Amazing Dashboad widgets like:
-My Liked Lessons - This widget makes sure that you have the freedom to directly launch your favorite liked lessons from the dashboard
-Total Time spent - With this you can view total time spent directly on the dashboard
-My Groups - You can view all the groups you’ve joined directly on the Dashboard. (For both JomSocial and EasySocial)
-My Group Discussions - You can view all the discussions you’ve been participating on the dashboard directly. (For Both JomSocial and EasySocial)
-My Liked Lessons - This widget makes sure that you have the freedom to directly launch your favorite liked lessons from the dashboard
-Total Time spent - With this you can view total time spent directly on the dashboard
-My Groups - You can view all the groups you’ve joined directly on the Dashboard. (For both JomSocial and EasySocial)
-My Group Discussions - You can view all the discussions you’ve been participating on the dashboard directly. (For Both JomSocial and EasySocial)
Module for courses that shows My Enrolled Courses and any courses from single/multiple categories
A module that displays the list of courses, total number of enrolled users, start date and type for the courses.
Ability to create a new Menu type to link to a specific Course.
One can create a menu item for a single course, from backend menu manager.
Time spent column on pop-up view of attempts for course TOC
Time spent column on pop-up view of attempts displays the time taken to complete the course for that attempt.
Revamped Courses Menu
The Courses menu now offers new filtering options. Now you can choose to display courses from all or a specific category and also choose All, liked, recommended and enrolled courses. The Layouts offered also have expanded configuration and you can choose number of courses to show in pin layouts based on device size.
Added description and image parameters during module creation
Site administrators can now add additional details like module description and image during module creation and also to the already existing modules that enable the developers to build custom layouts for course table of contents views
Plugins for Joomla User Group & EasySocial Group Addition on Course enrolment
Using the Integration plugin structure, we have now introduced the ability to add a user to a Joomla User group when they enroll for a course. Also, the older EasySocial groups integration feature is now refactored as a plugin.
Module for tag-based course display
With the LMS course display module, users can display all the courses having the same tag(s) on a single page.
Course price range on course pins
Shika 1.3.30 introduces the course price range on course pins depending upon the different subscription plans.
Category Title on Course pins
With Shika 1.3.30, instead of filtering the categories to search for the respective courses, users can easily identify the courses belonging to the specific categories.
Shika configuration for course image size for course detail view
To improve the look and feel of the course details page, we have introduced the Shika configuration to set the course image size as small, medium or large.
Buy Now, Enroll and Continue buttons on course pin view
With Shika 1.3.30, users can buy new courses, enroll for new courses and continue with their existing courses from the course pin view
New resume module with upcoming lesson information and Continue button to access the last lesson viewed
Users can view the upcoming lesson information and directly navigate to the last viewed lesson using the “Continue” button. Users can also track the progress of their existing lessons.
Auto Enrollment to free courses on launching any free course lesson
Shika 1.3.31 release enables users to auto-enroll to any free course once they launch any lesson from that course.
Card Plain Style layout
Card plain style layout for courses with a black overlay for the course name and course category.
Behaviour Mode: Suggested,Upcoming,Completed,Not Enrolled Courses
Course users can have information regarding completed courses, not enrolled courses, upcoming courses and suggested courses.
Copy course configuration
Using save as a copy option, the current course information will be copied. Note that lesson copy and module copy is currently not supported.
Tick mark for completed course modules
A tick mark is displayed for completed course modules along with the completion date.
Authoring
Standard Joomla WYSIWYG
This tool offers the standard Joomla WYSIWYG as a course authoring tool. Simple flexibility to create any kind of content you need with the option to switch to hand coding html if you need to.
HTML Drag and Drop Course Authoring Tool*
This tool is offered with the view of making content authoring drag and drop easy ! With a beautiful UI and lots of ready to use elements like drop in headers, footers, body content styles, google maps videos and much more, this is the fastest way to author content that looks polished and complete.
Lesson Types
Scorm
SCORM is a set of technical standards for e-learning. It brings standardisation due to which you can use a course created using any popular SCORM authoring tool with Shika. Shika tracks completion, scoring and all critical parameters monitored in SCORM. Shika supports SCORM authored content using iSpring.
Documents - Word, Powerpoint, PDF with Box API integration
Authoring learning content is one of the biggest challenges teachers face. The simplest way of authoring courses are traditional tools like Word, Powerpoint and PDFs. We have created an awesome lesson player by integrating the Box API which makes learning using these traditional document formats - PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX as well as PDF a breeze. With Shika 1.1.13, we have updated Box API integration useful for rendering document type lessons.
Simple HTML
Another comparatively easy authoring language for teachers is HTML. HTML content can be created by a variety of desktop as well as web based applications. To make it even easier we offer HTML Authoring tools in Shika which can make authoring HTML courses lots of fun !
Video Content
Video learning is one of the easiest ways to produce content with great software available to do screen recordings, voice overs or direct video recording. Plus learning with audio visuals is much more engaging than static content and is thus much more effective. Shika offers multiple flexible options for video learning. You can choose to upload your own videos or embed videos from Vimeo or Youtube.
Audio Learning
In some cases, learning can be simply about plugging in headphones and listening to audio content. Again pretty simple to produce, teachers can record the audio content and upload the mp3.
HTML5
HTML5 lessons can contain rich interactive content and even games. This will typically need you get content developed from a HTML5 developer. To make HTML5 content work in Shika, you just need to ensure that your content has an entry file named index.html and the file and course assets are packaged in a Zip Archive. We also offer our own tracking API if you want tracking for your non SCORM HTML5 content.
Support for LTI Providers (External Tool)
LTI or learning tools interoperability allows for adding content from external learning content providers who support the LTI standard into the LMS. This is introduced as a new Lesson type called 'External Tool'.
Note: Please note that this feature is still in Alpha and has only been tested with a limited amount of LTI Providers
Note: Please note that this feature is still in Alpha and has only been tested with a limited amount of LTI Providers
Youtube plugin
Integrated the IFrame API for YouTube videos. YouTube plugin is introduced as one more Lesson type in video section
Event as a Lesson with JTicketing Integration
Typically Learning management systems are associated with 'On Demand' learning. With 'Event as a lesson' support with JTicketing we introduce the ability to add 'Scheduled Training's' into your Shika courses. This is just a start to the various 'blended learning' combinations that you will be able to achieve with Shika in the future.
Since JTicketing now supports online training now with Adobe Connect integration, these 'Events' can be online or offline !
Since JTicketing now supports online training now with Adobe Connect integration, these 'Events' can be online or offline !
Link as Lesson
Link as lesson allows you to compile information from the internet and set it in the right context. You can use links from any site that allows iframe embedding.
Joomla article as lesson
A lot of our customers wanted to re purpose Joomla articles for their learning content and also get benefits of using the plethora of 'Content plugins' available for Joomla for creating content. Joomla webmasters thus need to have no new learning curve to create learning content now ! Just like HTML lessons, we track time spent on these lessons too !
Event category as lesson
Shika 1.3.4 introduces event category as lesson. The events would be marked as completed when the event attendee attends the specific event(s)
Lesson layout
Users are provided an option for selecting lesson layout and also users can design their own layout.
Mandatory question for exercise and feedback lesson types
From Shika 1.3.15, we have added mandatory questions functionality for exercise and feedback lesson types. The mandatory questions are displayed with an asterisk mark in the course.
HTML 5 files as sample/example for HTML 5 lesson type
With Shika 1.3.30, we have added sample HTML 5 files for the HTML 5 lesson type.
"Reader View" config in "Link As Lesson" on lesson level
With a view to facilitating better readability, we have introduced the reader view configuration for the “Link as Lesson” lesson type. Reader view strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast, and layout for better readability.
Verdana font in drag and drop HTML builder
Verdana font in drag and drop HTML Builder for ‘Text&Media’ lesson type.
Assessment with Quizzes
Central Question Bank
Shika lets you maintain a Question bank of questions that you can use to create your Quizzes. Any new questions you create are automatically added to the question bank for reuse later.
Multiple Choice Questions
Shika supports creating questions with multiple choices as answers with multiple correct answer support.
Manual Curated Quiz or Rules based Rule based Quiz Generator
Shika lets you curate Quizzes by using Questions from the question bank or create questions on the fly. Alternatively you can use the intuitive rule based quiz generation tool to generate a quiz and then modify it as needed.
Automated Checking and Results
While creating a question for the quiz you have to provide the correct answer for that questions. Based on this the quiz is automatically checked and the results are generated and stored.
Answer Sheet Display
Optionally show the answer sheet to the user after he or she completes the Quiz to aid their learning.
Optional Resume support
If someone has attempted a quiz and left it incomplete, they can continue the quiz from where it was left off. This can be done for quizzes where they are used to aid learning. For serious exams, it should be turned off.
Ability to Delete Questions
You can delete questions from the Question Bank. However if the question is associated to any of the quizzes it will not be deleted and an error message will be displayed.
Commenting for the Answers
While creating a question admin can now add a comment against the answer which will be shown while the quiz is been reviewed after the completion.
Dynamic Random Quiz Generation from Question pool sets
With this feature, its possible to define a Master Pool of questions from which a random quiz is generated for each student.
Question and Answer Shuffle
This will randomly shuffle the order of rendering of questions as well as the order of answer options as per the configuration.
Assessments for Exercises & Quiz
Shika 1.3 introduces the brand new assessment feature for exercises and quiz. Course creators can assess the users based on 5 parameters-Star, Yes/No, Text Input, Checkbox and DropDown. Assessors can enter the marks to be alloted to every parameter.
Support for Sections/Question grouping
Shika 1.3 introduces support for sections for grouping the various questions in a quiz.
Media based support for question and question options
With Shika 1.3.6, site administrators can now add the media type of their choice to both question as well as question options while question creation.
Character count configuration for text area type questions
Course creators can set Maxlength and Minlength for the answer text. Note that the Minlength should be greater than or equal to Maxlength.
Preview files uploaded for file upload question type for exercise and quiz
Assessors can also preview files uploaded for file upload question type for exercise and quiz during assessment using Google Viewer or Microsoft viewer.
Support for Large Exams
Support for large exams with new UI, ability to flag and skip questions with a brand new question navigator. A Question navigator provides a quick overview of the questions you have attempted, skipped and flagged and also allows you to jump to any question with a single click. This feature is vital for competitive exams, Distance education and also In Lab exams where a large number of questions need to be answered.
Logic change for random pool based quizzes to generate a new set per attempt
In the previous versions of Shika, our random pool based quiz did not give a new set of questions for each attempt, the questions repeat on repeated attempts. With Shika 1.3.12, the random pool based quiz should work in such a way that for every new attempt, the user/student will get a new set of questions. The student attempting the quiz will get a different set of questions for every new attempt from the question pool.
Rating label for rating-type questions
While creating a Rating type question, it can often get confusing when you have a scale of 5 or 10 what each node of the scale or rating means. With the Labels, you can make it clear what each rating means
Hide/show the 'Print' button for quiz on the answer sheet
With Shika 1.3.34, site administrators can decide the printing of the answer sheet for quiz for course users.
Summary of quiz taken on thank you page
Users can identify the areas of improvement based upon the feedback for the respective quiz section or question category.
Tracking and Resume Support
Time Tracking for all lesson Types*
Time spent on learning is an important assessment parameter in many countries. Shika tracks the time spent down to the second for all types of lessons. Traditionally this was seen as a feature only available to SCORM courses, but Shika has made it available to all kinds of lessons.
Scoring and Certification
Multiple Attempts support
When creating a lesson the teacher or admin can choose how many attempts to allow for the course. Using this you can offer the user more chances to enhance learning. (Note that multiple attempts support is not allowed for normal Quizzes in the initial version.)
Multiple Scoring Methods
You can choose how to calculate the score of a lesson across multiple attempts. You can choose if you want to use the best score, average or the latest attempt score among others.
Certification Criteria
When you create a course, you can set the certification criteria. Only when these are met, a certificate for the course shall be awarded. You can choose from Pass all lessons, Complete all lessons or No Certificate. In addition you can choose on a lesson level if that should be considered for passing.
Certificate Generation
You can certify your course by providing a certificate to the student. The certificate template can be designed in the backend using the template editor and replacement tags available.
Brand new Certificate manager
Now create multiple certificate templates and choose which template you want to use when you create a new Course. With Shika 1.1.9, you can select the orientation for the course certificate template-portrait or landscape.
Unique Certificate ID per certificate
With this feature every certificate that is awarded via your LMS gets a unique ID which makes it easy to track authenticity.
Certificate expiry
When creating a course you can now also set a certificate expiry after which the certificate becomes invalid. Both this and unique certificate id feature are extremely useful if you are doing CPD (Certified Professional Development) type courses which expire after a certain period.
Show total time spent in course on certificate
Lets you output the 'time spent' by the user in the course as a replacement variable in the course certificate.
Support for Easysocial and JomSocial Fields in the Certificate
Personalize your certificate by using select EasySocial and JomSocial fields in your certificate template.
Addition of Certificate PDF generation parameters
Shika 1.3.3 allows you to create great looking certificates by experimenting with different page fonts and different page sizes.
Course’s custom fields(Joomla Fields) on the certificate
With Shika 1.3.8, course creators can add custom fields to the certificate template in addition to some pre-existing tags.
TJ Certificate integration
With the TJ certificate integration, a unique certificate will be issued to course users with a verified unique ID upon course completion.
Ecommerce
Course Subscription System
Shika lets you sell access to your courses. You can choose to set course access subscriptions in terms of Days, Weeks, Months or Years and set pricing accordingly. You can have multiple duration and pricing options for your courses.
Ecommerce Dashboards and reports
The Ecommerce Dashboard shows you a quick overview how your course sales are doing with a quick revenue display as well as a monthly sales graph.
Multiple Payment Plugins
Our extensions are powered by the 'Joomla Common Payments API'. Your Subscription comes with free support and updates for the following plugins.
-Paypal
-Authorizenet
-2Checkout
-Pay By Check
-Pay By Purchase Order
-Alpha User Points
-JomSocial Points
-Stripe (via Third Party Developer Faster Joomla)
All plugins listed on this link will also likely work. However, they are not covered under the support subscription. https://github.com/techjoomla/joomla-payments/tree/master/code/plugins
-Paypal
-Authorizenet
-2Checkout
-Pay By Check
-Pay By Purchase Order
-Alpha User Points
-JomSocial Points
-Stripe (via Third Party Developer Faster Joomla)
All plugins listed on this link will also likely work. However, they are not covered under the support subscription. https://github.com/techjoomla/joomla-payments/tree/master/code/plugins
Ability to give Free sample lessons
Free samples are the best way to let your users try your course content hands on ! You can set one or more lessons as free samples in a paid course.
Manage enrollments & assignments in a easy to use view
Easy to manage enrollments and assignments along with the respective start date and due date along with user notification. CSV format has been changed for appending the users to the multiple user groups with Shika 1.1.11.
Show Coupon used count on Coupon list view
Now easily find which coupons are working better for you with a 'Use Count' display which shows how frequently a coupon has been used in the system.
Course Specific and Subscription Plan Coupon
This allows you to now create coupons that are specific to a course along with subscription plan specific coupons. It also lays the foundation for 'Vendor-specific coupons' that will come in later versions when we bring multi-vendor support.
Enrollments for paid courses from Admin panel.
Shika 1.1.8 introduces enrollment of users from the backend for paid courses
Google Analytics integration for online payments
Shika 1.3.21 introduces the Google Analytics plugin for integrating all eCommerce reporting capabilities powered by Google Analytics
Learning Tools and the Learning Toolbar
The Learning Toolbar
The Learning toolbar is available when you launch any lesson. It provides easy access to various learning and social tools in a quick and intuitive way.
Notes
Users are given a slick interface to take notes while they are viewing a lesson. Part of the Learning toolbar, its very easy to access your notes and do that without interrupting your lesson.
Lists
Lists are a easy way to organise lessons across the system in a way that makes it easy for the student to find. Think of them as Gmail Labels. Each student can create their own and add any lesson to one or more lists.
Learning Dashboard
Every student has their own learning dashboard that gives a quick view of their learning activities, recommendations and activity charts to the user. The Dashboard quickly shows the user their Enrolled courses, progress across courses, activity stream and graphs, group discussions etc in one quick view.
Extensible Dashboard Architecture
It is possible to add more rich and useful widgets and content to the dashboard using Dashboard plugins. It opens up a new opportunity for 3rd party developers to join the Joomla learning revolution we are starting with Shika and contribute some snazzy Dash plugins.
Teacher Tools
Course Assignment
Teachers and admins can assign users to one or more courses in the system using this feature. Assignment indicates that its mandatory for the user to take that course.
Course Assignment and Goals
In a corporate environment you want to be able to assign courses to students and have them complete them in a specific time frame. With course assignments, admins and course owners can assign courses to students and set start and due dates. Students can also set courses as 'Goals' with due dates for themselves.
This is powered by jLike transparently in Shika and is an excellent example of the seamless integration goals we have set for integrating products with each other. This comes with an improved back end enrollments view with better filters. We are also shipping an Alpha of 'jLike based reminders' with this release which you can try in jLike.
This is powered by jLike transparently in Shika and is an excellent example of the seamless integration goals we have set for integrating products with each other. This comes with an improved back end enrollments view with better filters. We are also shipping an Alpha of 'jLike based reminders' with this release which you can try in jLike.
Reports
Course Report
The course report helps teachers and admins get a quick overview on a course level. Which includes details of people enrolled for the course, people who have completed and who have not. So the teachers can keep a track of their course.
Student Report Card
Students report card gives a student level performance report across courses. It contains the number of attempts taken per lesson, score and status.
Lessons Report
This report covers extensive details about the lessons. Like start date, end date, attempt, status, time spent and more..
Users Report
Get all the insights of the user from details like number of courses he has enrolled in, contact details, pending and completed courses etc.
Multi purpose Ajaxed reporting tool
This awesome Reporting tool gives you control on what you want to see in reports, set filters and also choose what columns to show and hide. You can also save your own custom reports.
Configurable Date format for reports
Admin can set the Date format to be used for reports and other areas.
Improved User report with Joomla user group filters
Now filter the user report using Joomla user groups. Very useful if you are using Joomla groups to setup departments in a company.
Compare spent time vs ideal time for lessons
The attempt & lesson reports get an upgrade to let you compare Spent time vs Ideal time. `
Lesson and Activity stream report changes
In Shika 1.3.12, we have added course id and user id for the lesson and activity stream report respectively. By introducing User ID, users are now provided with an option to hide personal user data like Name and Email ID.
Paid course report
WIth Shika 1.3.14, we have introduced a new Paid Course Report. Paid course report gives a summary of the different users enrolled in the different paid courses.
Course Category Report
With Shika 1.3.18, we have added the course category report. Course category report gives a complete overview of the total courses in each category along with the total number of enrolled users and total completed courses for the different categories.
User Interface
Multiple Course Layouts
You can choose between a blog view, a Pinterest like variable height view and also a fixed height pin view to show your courses. You can choose to create a menu common for all categories or have category specific menus.
Responsive
Shika is completely responsive and brings an awesome learning experience to you whether you are using a desktop, laptop, tablet or a mobile device.
Rich Course Page
The Course page gives a quick look at what the contents are all about and also shows you your progress and other user specific course metrics if you are logged in. A Table of contents, your progress and attempts on each lesson, overall course progress, Social information like group discussions, group chat and other members enrolled in the course is shown in a nice intuitive interface.
Developer APIs
Native Joomla MVC and overrides
We use native Joomla MVC throughout the public views of Shika. This means you can use Joomla template overrides to easily override the output and give Shika your own custom look.
Plugin Triggers
We have built Shika to be easily extendible by making a host of plugin triggers available across the Shika codebase. This makes it easy to intercept and modify data, extend features and add your own twist to Shika. (See the API Documentation for full details.)
Lesson Player Plugins
Shika supports a host of lesson types like Video, Documents, SCORM, TinCan, HTML5 and Live. Each of these lesson types is supported by lesson player plugins that support each type. Our plugin API allows you to write your own Player plugins. (The Live lesson method is for having hangouts and webinars as lesson types. These are not available now and will be introduced in upcoming versions.)
LRS Plugins
TINCAN relies on using a Learning Record Store to store all learning metrics. Currently Shika ships with SCORM Cloud Public LRS plugin integrated. The LRS plugin API allows you to add your own LRS integrations to Shika.
Keep a watch on all important things like total number of courses, students enrolled, pending enrollments, revenue and much more. Detail analysis of these things with activity and sales graph with the e commerce dashboards and reports.
Keep a watch on all important things like total number of courses, students enrolled, pending enrollments, revenue and much more. Detail analysis of these things with activity and sales graph with the e commerce dashboards and reports.
Common Payments API
Shika uses Techjoomla’s common payments API to power its payments. You can develop additional payment plugins for Shika and other supported products using the Common Payments API.
Your Subscription comes with free support and updates for the following plugins.
-Paypal
-Authorizenet
-2Checkout
-Pay By Check
-Pay By Purchase Order
-Alpha User Points
-JomSocial Points
-Stripe (via Third Party Developer Faster Joomla)
All plugins listed on this link will also likely work. However they are not covered under the support subscription. https://github.com/techjoomla/joomla-payments/tree/master/code/plugins
Your Subscription comes with free support and updates for the following plugins.
-Paypal
-Authorizenet
-2Checkout
-Pay By Check
-Pay By Purchase Order
-Alpha User Points
-JomSocial Points
-Stripe (via Third Party Developer Faster Joomla)
All plugins listed on this link will also likely work. However they are not covered under the support subscription. https://github.com/techjoomla/joomla-payments/tree/master/code/plugins
Product News
- Shika 1.3.41 is here with several improvements & bug fixesPosted 19-March-2021
- Shika 1.3.39 is here with free text input questions, course prerequisites, external training records and more!Posted 18-January-2021
- Shika 1.3.38 is here with SCORM reports and SMS support for TJ NotificationsPosted 11-November-2020
- Shika 1.3.37 is here with TJ Fields compatibilityPosted 08-October-2020
- Fresh off the oven - Shika 1.3.35 & 1.3.36Posted 21-September-2020
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Summary
Latest Version
1.3.41 Stable
Extension Type
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Joomla Compatibility
3.x
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Social Learning and Integrations
Native Sharing on external Social Networks
The Learning Activity Stream
Course Likes, Dislikes*
Course Commenting*
Recommend a course*
Course Groups & Discussions
3PD Social Networks
Profile & Avatar Integration
Activity Stream Integration
Points Integration
Badges to show off your Achievements
Shika integrates with EasySocial Badges and these can be awarded using the same criteria for certification. If you select a EasySocial badge to be awarded against a course, then the badge is awarded automatically when the certification criteria are met.
Integration plugin for adding course-specific EasySocial points during course creation