GetSmarter OLC

This is the first official version of our app, made to support your learning experience and offer you mobile access to your Online Campus while on the move.

With the GetSmarter OLC App, you can enjoy the following popular features and functionalities that make online learning collaborative:

● Easily access course content: View course activities and delve into course content at any time.

● Connect with course participants: Quickly find other people in your courses.

● Engage in course activities: Attempt quizzes, participate in forums, and more.

● Submit assignments: Upload documents, audio, images, and other files from your mobile device.

● Keep up to date: Receive instant notifications of forum mentions, calendar events, assignment submissions, and more.

● Track your course progress: Check completion progress in courses for your modules and view your grades for each graded activity.

GetSmarter, a brand of 2U, Inc., partners with the world's leading universities to select, design and deliver premium online short courses with a data-driven focus on learning gain.

WHAT’S NEW

- Discussion forum

New Features

● You can now filter replies by “All replies”, “Tutor replies” , or “My replies” and sort replies by “Newest first”, “Oldest first”, “Likes: Most to least”, and “Replies: Most to least”.

● Ability to sort discussions by “Recent”, “Most active”, “Creation date”, “Subscribed”, and “Most likes”.

● The button to add a new discussion has been redesigned and is now fixed to the bottom-right corner of your screen for ease of use.

● Indentation has been added for nested replies to allow users to follow the flow of a discussion more easily.

● File attachments can now be added to your forum posts

● A rich text editor is available to allow you to apply formats to text in your posts

- Notifications

New Features

● All notifications are marked as read once you visit the notifications page.

- UI improvements

New Features

● Improvements to overall app appearance and design

● Improved formatting of all page and course content

- Calendar

New Features

● Calendar page in the app now supports monthly calendar view

● Ability to create, edit, and delete calendar events in the app

- Accessibility

New Features

● Font size options for the app have been added to the app’s general settings page