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Archive for August, 2009

IB Virtual Community - First version released

Friday, August 7th, 2009

On June 25th it was announced  that the International Baccalaureate and ePals, Inc. would collaborate to create a customized online learning community for IB students, educators, alumni, volunteers and other stakeholders.

We are pleased to announce that on July 31st, the first release of the IB Virtual Community was launched.

Our testing community has already begun to evaluate features including:

o User group creation and membership management

o Friendship connection requests and management

o Profile and home page content (updates, messages, blogs, wikis and media gallery areas).

Release 0.2 is scheduled for September this year and will build upon the first release by incorporating enhanced features and capabilities that reflect the feedback received from our stakeholder testers.

The following screen shots of this first release will give you an overview of the site development (Adobe Reader required).

Download IB Virtual Community screenshots [PDF, 750KB]

We look forward to updating you as the project progresses. Please direct your IB Virtual Community related enquiries to dsi@ibo.org or comment through this blog.