The new front-end Teacher Interface has been a massive hit. We've received fantastic feedback. People have loved it — and that makes us very happy!

In the responses to our recent survey, one request came up again and again.

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

Creating a great video course isn't easy. You have to really dedicate yourself to producing content that will not only convey knowledge but also interest students. And once you've produced those videos, you have to add them to Guru. That's work.

Joomla 3.3 that was released a couple of days ago, presented a problem with the login/session function of Guru.

The good news: we have a fix for this issue, so please upgrade your Guru to version 3.1.6 ASAP to avoid this issue. Even if you don't plan to upgrade to Joomla 3.3, your site may get upgraded without your knowledge, when you attempt to upgrade to 3.2.4 because of a bug in Joomla, see image below.

eLearning is exploding! Sites like Lynda.com and Udemy.com are already making millions selling online courses. And you know what?

So can you.

Three years ago, we released an amazing eLearning system called “Guru.” This powerful extension allows you to create courses and generate passive income through online education. Guru has evolved very nicely since then, becoming ever more powerful and feature-rich. You can check out Guru’s website to learn more, or try our demo to see just what it can do. It’s very cool.

Are you worried about migrating Guru to Joomla 3.0? Think it’s going to be complicated? Scared it will eat up an entire morning? Frightened you’ll end up gnawing the desk in frustration?

No wonder you’ve been putting it off.

But you don’t need to procrastinate any more!

Just a quick update, we've released a new version of the courses module, with a bug fix. There was a problem publishing more than one instance of the module, now this problem is fixed. You can see it live on our own learning center (look on the right side, you'll see the module showing twice: once for the most popular courses and once for the newest courses.

http://learn.ijoomla.com

Some customers also reported that they couldn't download the latest stable version, if you had this issue, please try to download it now, this issue should be fixed.

New Module! —Publish Your List Of Courses

We’ve started adding modules to Guru and the first one is
ready. This module allows you to publish a list of courses. You can order those courses by:

• Popularity
• Date
• Random

Place the module on different parts of the page and you can show different views.

Easily migrate your Guru data from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.x

If you think that migrating your site to Joomla 3.x is hard and complicated… you’re right. So we’ve tried to make it easier, at least when it comes to moving your Joomla extensions’ data to the Joomla 3.x platform.

We’ve just released a new version of Guru for Joomla 2.5. Version 2.2.14 fixes a few bugs and adds an enhancement of the certificate feature. View the change log here.

New PDF Library:

The main improvement on this version is the PDF creation of certificates. We’re using a new PDF library called MPDF that gives much better results when viewing certificates in PDF format. You’ll get better support for different fonts, colors and special characters. How it works The MPDF library is too large to be included in the Guru package. You must install it manually.

First, we release Guru versions almost monthly. They typically contain bug fixes or small enhancements.

At the same time, we’ve been working super hard on Guru for Joomla 3.x. This is not a small task.

Here’s something that I know will go down well…
…Guru now integrates fully with Kunena!

Kunena is a great forum extension for Joomla. We've been using it on iJoomla for a while and we love it. We knew it would make a great partner for Guru.

We've just released a new version, version 2.2.7. In this version we added a new page for students: My Quizzes/Final Exams.  This page allows your students to easily track all their quizzes/final exams in one page. See the screen capture below, or check out our demo to see it live.

I am happy to annouce the release of a new version of Guru, version 2.2.4! In this version, we added a feature that you all have been asking for since day one: Certificates!

Final Exam is a new feature that was quietly released a few weeks ago. In addition to adding quizzes throughout the course, you can now also set up a final exam built from questions in the various quizzes.

Because you can set an exam as a criterion that students must pass, the Final Exam feature is closely related to the Certificates feature.

In addition to adding quizzes throughout the course, you can now also set up a final exam built from questions in the various quizzes.

Because you can set an exam as a criterion that students must pass, the Final Exam feature is closely related to the Certificates feature. 

Right from the moment Guru was released, almost a year ago, people have been asking us for a feature that would allow them to release their lessons gradually — once a day or once a week or once a month.

Today, we released a new version of Guru that allows you to do just that. Not only can you stop students jumping around on the course, you can now use your course as a marketing machine. Send students an email each time a lesson is ready and you’ll bring them back to your site automatically. They’ll stay on your course and renew their subscription to gain access to the remaining lessons. You’ll get more money in your pocket.

A couple of weeks ago we released a new version of Guru with lots of enhancements to the quizzes feature. Today we released a new version, 2.2.0 with two new quizzes features:

• Now you can export the quizzes results to a PDF document or to CVS format.
• On quiz manager now you can see a new button "clear results". You can clear the results of each quiz by clicking on this button.

A couple of months ago we released a new version of Guru that included the ability to track student participation and follow quiz results. Since then, we've been working on enhancing the quizzes feature to provide greater control and even more flexibility.

This is another great step in the overall vision for Guru, which includes:

• Gradual release of lessons.
• Certification.
• Restrictions on lessons and courses based on quiz results.