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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last month, Lynda.com, an online training platform, was picked up by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion! That’s a lot of dough, and it means two things:  

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.

CMS Expo got off to a pretty good start. The CMS Awards, in which developers were recognized for outstanding work in a number of different categories, were held on the first day… and Guru, our new learning management system for Joomla, won the an award for Best Joomla LMS! We are super excited because a lot of sweat went into this one, and it’s nice to see your work rewarded.

It’s even nicer though to see all the great things our customers have been doing with it. Take a look at some of these examples:

• OSTraining.com
• PhotographersClubHouse.com
• TheOnlineTrainingSite.com

Since Guru’s release nine months ago, we’ve been able to convert it to Joomla 2.5 and to release twelve new versions with lots of new features. Our goal is to make Guru not only the best LMS for Joomla but also the best LMS of any platform. We think we’re getting there. If you haven’t looked at Guru yet, check out the demo and our live learning center.

When we started work on the new version of Guru, version 2.1.0, we asked our customers which new features you’d most like to see. You asked for a student and quiz tracking feature. You’ve got it!

If you're creating video tutorials with screen capture, there's a good chance you're using Camtasia Studio.

In this tutorial I will show you how to mass export your videos into mp4, in high definition. You can choose a lower resolution if your internet connection is not super fast. Once the mp4 files are ready, you can upload them to vimeo.com, youtube.com or your server.

If you’re charging for your Guru courses, you won’t want your videos available for free on YouTube or anywhere else on the Web. Nor do you want people to download them… and then upload them to YouTube themselves.

So what’s the solution? You need to sign up to the right video hosting service, one that has the following features:

Course lessons are always better with videos but where should you host them?

You have two options:

• On your server;
• On a video hosting site such as YouTube or Vimeo.

Thank you for singing up to be a beta tester for Guru! We’re super-excited about this extension because we’ve been working on Guru on and off for three years! We really wanted to create a training system that’s both powerful and user-friendly. It hasn't been easy but I think we did it!