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Velocity5.0

Learning management system for schools and higher education

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Ten months of accessibility debt and legacy retirement, with SCORM now a line item

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◆Current state
itslearning ships one dated digest a month, and the contents are consistent: interface conversions (frameless layouts, refreshed icons, font selection, a rebuilt permission system, a rebuilt personal Files area), a long fix table, and features funded by the German Development Project with four German states. Across ten months of updates nothing adds a new capability category — the work is making the existing platform accessible, faster and less iframe-bound. The one structural move is subtraction: legacy subsystems are being retired on published deadlines.
◆Where it's heading
The retirement schedule is the actual roadmap. Test 2.0 loses editing from summer 2026, the Icodeon SCORM player is stripped from inactive sites and swapped for Rustici on active ones in August, and small legacy surfaces like the project Links page are deleted as cleanup. Net-new features trace back to the GDP partnership rather than a general product thesis, which means the roadmap follows a funded customer bloc; expect frameless conversions and accessibility passes to keep filling most of each monthly digest.
◆Prediction
The next digest should confirm the Rustici cutover landed for active sites, with further frameless conversions and GDP-funded features behind it. What the entries do not answer is what schools that decline the paid SCORM add-on at renewal are expected to use instead.

◆Recent moves

  1. 16d ago

    Fixes for assessment scrolling, course copy and page errors

    A fix-only digest: scrolling in the assessment record, a course-resource copy failure, template card images on integration imports, and a page that broke entirely on one bad image. Nothing ships; this is the maintenance floor between the larger monthly releases.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Personal Files area rebuilt for accessibility and Office editing

    The personal Files area gets the treatment the permission system got in February — a redesign and accessibility pass, with Office Web or Collabora editing in place and file-picker reuse across the platform. It extends the modernization grind rather than what the platform can do, and the warning to administrators about storage quotas suggests usage is expected to climb.

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  3. 1mo ago

    SCORM player swaps to Rustici and becomes a paid add-on

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    The SCORM swap is the sharpest edge of the same retirement program that covers Test 2.0 and the project Links page — but this one changes commercial terms, not just code. Font selection shipped alongside it as routine accessibility work.

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  4. 2mo ago

    Links page retired from projects in a code cleanup

    Removing the project Links page is cleanup — the vendor cites very limited usage and one less surface to maintain. It is the same subtraction impulse behind the Test 2.0 and SCORM decisions, at much smaller scale, wrapped around the usual fix table.

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  5. 3mo ago

    Information Hub adds a non-academic course type

    Information Hub is a course focus for communication and resource sharing, defined mostly by what it removes — no plans, no task lists, no reports — and existing courses can be converted into one. With the Personal Menu icon refresh alongside it, the pattern holds: reshaping existing surfaces rather than extending the platform.

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  6. 4mo ago

    Notification preferences arrive for teachers and admins

    Users can now filter bell notifications by category or by course, and mute individual courses entirely. This closes a gap an established LMS is expected to have covered rather than opening a new direction, and it fits the run of control-and-comfort work across the year.

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