Shika in Marathi means ‘to learn’. It is a Joomla Learning Management System (LMS) from Techjoomla that makes e-learning easy as well as intuitive. Shika has been structured to solve a variety of learning needs with inputs from teachers, corporate clients as well as e-learning content development companies
A Power-packed Learning Management System by Techjoomla!
Features
Organization and Search
Multi-Level Categorization
Tags
Search
Course Manager
Category Title on Course pins
The course price range on course pins
Auto-Enrollment to free courses on launching any free course lesson
HTML5 files as sample/example for HTML5 lesson type
Revamped Courses Menu
Addition of description and image parameters during module creation
Module for courses that shows My Enrolled Courses and any courses from single/multiple categories
Ability to create a new Menu type to link to a specific Course.
Drag and Drop Course Management with Modules and Lessons
Eligibility Criteria to define specific learning paths
Joomla ACL for Courses
Associated files for Courses
Field and field group for courses
Buy Now, Enroll and Continue button layout on course pin view
Shika configuration for course image size for course detail view
“Course layout” while creating courses
Introduced two new course layouts as “Compact” & “Extended” and renamed the default layout as “Legacy” in Shika config
Tag-based course display
Hierarchy based assignments
Assignment reminders
Authoring
Drag and Drop HTML Course Authoring
Standard Joomla WYSIWYG
Lesson Types
Quiz as lesson
Exercise as a lesson
Feedback as a Lesson
Supporting lesson layout
The event as a Lesson with JTicketing Integration
Link as Lesson
Joomla article as a lesson
New resume module with upcoming lesson information and Continue button to access the last lesson viewed
Introduced the “Reader View” config in “Link As Lesson” on lesson level
HTML5
SCORM
Powerpoint PPT/PPTX
Documents PDF/DOC/DOCX
Simple HTML
Video (Uploaded and Youtube)
Audio
Quiz Builder
Support for Sections/Question grouping
Assessments for Exercises & Quiz
Central Question Bank
Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Response Questions
Manual Quiz Builder
Rules-based automated quiz generator
Server-side validation for quiz
Dynamic Random Quiz Generation from Question pool sets
Question types introduced are File upload, Subjective-TextInput, Subjective-TextArea and Rating type
Question and Answer Shuffle
Jtext support for question bank fields
Added unique ID field in the question bank
Automated Checking
Resume support
Ecommerce
Course Subscription System
ECommerce Dashboards and Reports
Multiple Payment Plugins
Free Sample Lessons
Subscription renewal after the expiry
Manage enrollments & assignments in an easy to use view
Show Coupon used count on the Coupon list view
Course Specific Coupon
New plan names for subscription plans
Google Analytics Ecommerce integration for online payments
Social Integrations
EasySocial
JomSocial
Likes, Comments, Notes, and Lists
Recommend a Course
Reports
Improved user report with Joomla user group filters
Course Report
Course Category Report
Student Report Card
Compare spent time vs ideal time for lessons for reports
Single Course Report
Category Report
Course Owner/Teacher Reports
Frontend access to reports
Paid course report
Course Gradebook report
Students Courses Gradebook report
Google Data Studio integration for TJ Reports
Report Access Control
Report Configuration
Ajax based reports
Certification
Certificate Generation
Certification Criteria
Brand new Certificate manager
Unique Certificate ID per certificate
Certificate expiry
Show total time spent in course on certificate
Support for Easysocial Fields in the Certificate
Addition of Certificate PDF generation parameters
Decide Certificate Orientation
Tracking and Scoring
Ideal time for lesson
Multiple Attempts
Multiple Scoring Methods
Media Storage
Amazon S3 Integration
Dashboard widget for total ideal time
Teacher Tools
Course assignment and goals
User Group based Assignments
Enrolled users list shown in pop-up for course TOC
Support for CSS, JS Overrides
Support for AltaUserPoints
Collapsed modules by default for the courses in the frontend.
Integration with Academia v3.0 template from Themexpert
REST APIs for Get Courses, GetCourse & Get Lessons
Enrollments for paid courses from Admin panel.
New lesson type plug-in “PDF-Viewer” (Alpha)
Improved JTicketing integration with Shika with Event as Lesson and Event category as lesson
Email Manager with TJ Notifications support
Ability to Add User Specific timezone while creating users via Import CSV
Dashboards for Users & Admins based on the new TJ Dashboard Infrastructure Extension
GDPR compliance
Edit Quiz/Exercise Questions in Lesson creation interface
View submission in assessment pending period
Media-based question and question options with Shika
Specific file size while uploading file & Character count config for text area type questions
Addition to EasySocial and Joomla user group after course enrollment
Ideal time on the lesson playlist
Safe Exam Browser Integration
Display all sections in a single page and question review(with question navigator)
Quiz randomization
Report changes
Improvements to the Easysocial groups’ integration with Shika courses
DigiStore24 integration with Shika
