We’ve implemented some of the most requested features that people have asked for, and we’ve re-designed it with a new, modern look. It was worth the wait — and it’s out now.

What’s new?

We’ve squished a lot of bugs and added a bunch of great new features. We’ve removed bootstrap and we remade the frontend in UIkit to ensure greater speed, better compatibility and lower weight.

We’ve also introduced course categories let you assign multiple teachers to each course. Pretty good, huh?

The main focus of this upgrade, though, has been on quizzes.

They’re outstanding. If you want to see the changelog, go here.

New Quiz Types

Until now, you’ve been able to create quizzes in Guru in any way you wanted — as long as what you wanted was a simple multiple choice.

Now you have four different options.
<3h>Multiple Choice
One question with several possible correct answers.

Single Choice

One question with just one correct answer among the choices.

True / False

A question with just two possible answers. Student must choose whether the answer is true or false.

Essay

A question to which students have to write their own answer.

While multiple choice quizzes can be marked automatically, essays will need to be checked by teachers themselves. And because they’re more demanding of students, teachers can now give them greater weight in the marking scheme.

Whenever a student completes an essay, teachers are notified by email and can see in their panels any quizzes waiting to be marked. After marking, students receive an email and can check their scores.

New Quiz Features

In addition to new types of quiz, we’ve also enhanced the quizzes with some fantastic new features.

Question Weight

Assigning different weights to different questions lets teachers make some questions more important than others. A quiz made up of five multiple choice tests and an essay, for example, can now be weighted so that the essay makes up 50 percent of the total score.

Media Embedding In Questions

Embed media into a question and you can ask students to watch a short film or look at a picture before you ask them about the content.

Media Embedding In Answers

Put media into the answers and students will be able to choose an image or a piece of film to reply to a question.

New Quiz Creation Design

To make all these changes easy to use, we’ve completely re-modeled the quiz creation process. It’s simple, clean and intuitive.

I need this in my life… and I have an active license!

You’re a winner. Now just head straight to your account on iJoomla.com and download your prize. (It’s Guru 4).

Cool! How do I upgrade?

You’ve got a couple of options.

You can download the package from your account at iJoomla.com then upload and install it at the backend of your site > Extensions > Extension Manager.

Or

You can just go to the Backend > Components > iJoomla Installer and click the ‘Upgrade’ button. That’s just easier.

Aw… if only my license hadn’t expired.

You’re in luck. If your license expired we’ll give you a discount on the renewal. You’ll get 20% off the regular price.

All you need to do is login to your account at iJoomla.com and click the renew button next to Guru.

I need this in my life but I don’t have a license!

Then we’ll give you a license. Okay, we’ll sell you a license but the price will be a giveaway because we’ll take 20% off for you. You’ll need to move fast though, because we’re not going to hold this discount for long.

All you need to do is click the BUY TODAY! button below and use the following promo code:

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Promo code expires on Thursday, June 18th at midnight PST so don’t wait. Get the latest version of Guru now.

Please note that all new features for guru are for Joomla! 3.X versions. New Guru features are not supported for Joomla! 2.X versions.

Thank you

I’d like to personally thank you for using Guru and making this entire project possible. If it wasn’t for your support Guru would be no more than great idea. So, again, thank you for using Guru and I hope you’ll enjoy the latest version.

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And we’re going to give you another 10% discount on those discount bundles!

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We’ve completely revamped the reports, packing in detailed information that’s easy to read and a pleasure to break down both for admins and for advertisers.

The All-New Admin Interface

Log in to the reports page and you’ll now see an overview that provides a quick tour of your advertising program. It’s clear, it’s instantly available and it’s easy to understand. You’ll see:

Active/Inactive Advertisers

Now that you can easily which advertisers are inactive, you can reach out to them and make them an offer they can’t refuse. Bring them back as paying customers.

Active/Inactive Campaigns

See information on inactive campaigns, talk to the advertisers and help them to relaunch.

Active/Inactive Ads

See which ads have stopped running, and dream up incentives to get them moving again.

Revenue Earned Last Month/This Month

A summary of where you were last month and where you are this one. Expect those figures to keep growing!

Most Paying Advertiser

Spot your best advertiser and make sure they keep promoting on your site and contributing to your revenue.

Highest Click Ratio Ad

See which ad won the highest CTR. Contact that advertiser, show them the stats and use their example to boost the click rates of other advertisers. Keeping your advertisers engaged will keep them coming back and paying for more advertising space.

Most/Least Successful Campaigns

Talk to advertisers whose campaigns are failing and offer them some advice. Show them examples of the most successful campaigns and help them create their ads. They’ll see a massive improvement and understand why you’re worth paying.

To see the details of any report just click the report’s number or name. You’ll have all the information you need to keep your advertisers happy — and paying.

A Revamped Advertiser Interface

The Advertiser Interface provides detailed information about campaigns and active ads. All information is specific to the advertiser.

Campaigns

See which ads are doing best; the number of impressions; the number of clicks generated; and even the click ratio. The campaigns view also shows CPI and CPC ad data.

Brand New Graphs

Data is presented in beautiful new graphs. Enjoy a birds-eye view of all an advertiser’s campaigns and ads.

Graphs can be adjusted to show a predefined period (Last Month, Last Week, This Week, This Month) or set to show a custom time period.

Graphs also show impressions, clicks and click ratio. All the information you need about your advertisers is just a click away.

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And that’s not all!

Our designers have also upgraded Ad Agency to the latest Bootstrap 3. That makes for a fabulous design and our new reports take full advantage of it. Clear design equals easy and intuitive use.

Export All Data

In addition to seeing those reports in beautiful graphs, Ad Agency now lets publishers and advertisers export all data as PDF or CSV files. Exported data comes from the tables below the graphs on Overview, Advertisers and Campaign pages.

There’s much more…

I’ve only touched base with this newsletter. In the backend there are so many options that haven’t been discussed yet. Overview is only one part of it. There are also reports per advertiser or per campaign with a total breakdown.

See Ad Agency Demo

Demo site URL: http://joomla35.ijoomlademo.com/index.php/control-panel

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This promo code expires on Friday, 12th of September at midnight PST so don’t miss this amazing offer. Please also note that all new features added to Ad Agency are available only for Joomla 3.X.

Thank you!

Finally, thank you for letting us earn your business. At iJoomla we shoot for the best and we work hard to be able to give you a better product with every release. We hope you and your advertisers enjoy the new reports.

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Publishers wanted a way to let teachers add their own courses themselves.

We thought that was a great idea. (In fact, it was something we’d already started work on even before we’d sent out the survey.)

So we made it happen in this version of Guru.

The Guru Front-End Teacher Interface Is Here!

Your teachers can now prepare whole courses themselves, letting you collect either a percentage of the sales or a set fee. It’s up to you.

Teacher Registration Is Easy

Your teachers can register quickly, receive your approval, then start working on their courses right away. You will be notified when a new teacher requires your approval.

Review, Publish, You’re Done!

When teachers can prepare their courses without the help of the site’s admin, all you need to do is review the course and publish. You’ll have all the time you need to promote the course, bring in students and make money!

Teachers Can Create New Quizzes And Add Media

To build a really comprehensive course, teachers will need to be able to add quizzes and media. Teachers can do that by embedding media, linking to it or uploading it directly to your server.

Stats About Students

The teachers’ interface also gives teachers stats about their students and full access to quiz results. They can see how well students are doing and receive detailed information that shows which students succeeded where — and where they need to work harder.

Mass Video Import And Automatic Lesson Generation

Another very useful new feature is the ability to import whole playlists from YouTube or entire albums from Vimeo. Each video will automatically generate a lesson placed in the module of a selected course. Video titles and descriptions are fetched automatically. This powerful feature will save you hours of work! Read more about this feature here.

Additional Features In Version 3.2.0

In addition to the new teacher’s interface, we’ve included other improvements to Guru:

Quizzes Pagination

Got a big quiz with 100 questions? Spread them over a couple of pages.

Automatic Fetching of Video Content

When you add videos from any of the supported video hosts, you are now able to fetch the video’s title, thumbnail and description easily. You can read more about it here.

More Information About Orders

See which course was purchased on the backend “orders” page.

Organize Lessons Alphabetically

A single click brings order to your lessons.

Change Lesson Access Easily

Change access to lessons in a few clicks instead of editing every lesson individually.

Terms And Conditions For Teacher And Student Registration Process

Use different T&C forms for teachers and students.

And so much more…

Where Can You Get Guru?

Just login to your account on iJoomla.com. And go to my downloads. Or get it from iJoomla Installer.

How To Upgrade Guru?

It’s very simple! After you download the package, unzip it and upload the installation file to your site. Proceed like with any other Joomla extension installation. You can simply install the latest version of Guru on top of your old one. You can also use iJoomla Installer.

See Guru Teacher Interface In Action

Check out our demo site with the Teacher Interface. You can Login here:

http://joomla35.ijoomlademo.com/index.php/teacher-interface/guruauthor/authormycourses/

Login: demo

Password: demo

Guru Is Integrated With JomSocial

With JomSocial, your students can interact with each other and with their

teachers. Read more about it here.

What’s Next?

We’ll keep working on the teacher interface to make it even better, right now there’s no commissions system for your teachers in place. Of course with the improvements to orders reporting you can exactly know how much a teacher earned. But we want to make it not only better but great That is our main next focus.

And After That?

We’ll soon start working on SCORM and Quiz improvements.

Our goal is to make Guru the best LMS available! Thank you for supporting us on this journey. Stay tuned!

Comments? Questions?

Please leave them below.

Import Multiple Lessons At Once

Adding just a few video lessons to Guru is easy. Adding fifty or a hundred videos one-by-one can be strenuous.

Not anymore!

Now you can mass import your video lessons from Vimeo and YouTube. It’s super-easy and fetches not just the videos but also their thumbnails, titles and descriptions.

Here’s How It Works:

1. Prepare Guru for your videos.

First, make sure you have a course with at least one module. You should also have a media category in which to place the video, and if you’re not the teacher, you’ll need to add him or her to your list so that you can set them as the creator of the course.

Imported videos cannot be private so set the videos to ‘public‘ until you have finished adding them. You can change the privacy settings when you’re done.

2. Add the videos

The process differs for YouTube and Vimeo, but it’s always quick. Expect to lose… ooh, about a minute doing this.

YouTube Mass Import

1. Go to Guru’s backend > Media > Add Mass Videos.

   

2. Pick YouTube as the provider and take the playlist ID from the playlist URL.

   

3. You can pick the number of videos to show per page and set the video that starts the course.

   

4. Select the Media category to place the videos.

   

5. Select the lesson and lesson module to place the videos.

   

6. Set the teacher for the course and the lesson access.

   

7. Finally, click the checkboxes on the left to choose any videos you don’t want to import, and click ‘Fetch Videos.’

   

Vimeo Mass Import

Vimeo uses albums instead of playlists, so you’ll need an album ID.

You can also select the page from which you wish to import your videos. The rest of the process is exactly the same as for YouTube.

This is what the course looks like when you import 50 or more lessons. You’ll have saved hours and you can now divide them into modules if you want.

Guru Is Growing

This is just one feature that we created based on your feedback to make Guru even more powerful and user-friendly. We always keep usability in mind and you can expect more great improvements soon.

Comments? Questions?

Please leave them below.