Guru 5 Stable Version Is Here!
Great news! We just released a stable version of Guru 5, our Joomla LMS! After one beta version and 3 RC’s, we feel that it’s finally ready for prime time. A big thank you for those who submitted bug reports!
So what’s new in Guru 5?
Look And Feel
Categories And Courses
We’ve completely revamped the look and feel of course categories, lists of courses and course pages. They look so much better!
Great-Looking Quizzes!
We figured that quizzes shouldn’t be mean and scary, so we gave them a major makeover too. Check it out…
Guru 5 Quiz with Media
Beautiful Lessons
Lessons now open in an elegant window that’s easy to use. The list of lessons and the module are on the right, and students can move easily between lessons, make comments and see the lesson description.
Adding Media
Adding and editing media design always did need some love. They got it!
Adding media now looks a lot better!
Better Usability
We put a lot of work into improving the usability of Guru 5. We really wanted to raise your conversion rate and bottom line by making Guru easier for users… and you should find that your life as admin has got a lot easier too!
A BIG Call To Action
On the front end, we’ve put a call to action button on cover photos and we allow newly registered members to continue the purchase process.
A big button to buy the course is now present on the course cover image
Free courses have a more accurate message, lessons have descriptions and quizzes now allow for retakes right from My Quizzes page.
Removing Students from a Course
On the back end, you can now remove a student from a course, and we’ve added “save and new” button when creating lessons.
On the back end, you can now remove a student from a course, and we’ve added “save and new” button when creating lessons.
Categories Module
The Categories module now shows an icon of your choice for each category. It looks great.
Improved Teacher Interface
The teacher interface now looks and works much more smoothly. A new menu item even allows teachers to view, rate and comment on essay answers. Very useful!
New Shopping Cart Design
We’ve completely re-designed the shopping cart, here’s how it looks like:
See Guru 5 In Action!
We’ve installed the stable version of Guru 5 on our learning center. If you want to see how the front end looks, you can check it out now.
Upgrade Guru Now!
If you have an older version of Guru installed, please ugprade it to enjoy this fantastic new version! You can upgrade in one of two ways:
- Using iJoomla Installer – SUPER EASY! Simply click the update button
- Uploading the new version – EASY! Simply download Guru, and install it on top of your current version.
License Expired? Get 20% OFF!
When you renew your Guru license, you get it for 20% off of the original price! For only $237, the brand new Guru is yours! Visit our downloads page and click the renew button!
Don’t have Guru?
Guru is a fantastic Joomla LMS that will transform your site into a full-fledged learning system similar to Udemy or Lynda.com.
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Ghazaly
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Hi Merav,
Thanks for the update…. this is great news! I think many of us have been waiting for this release. Can you please consider to include an Affiliate feature in the next update? Or, at least make Guru able to integrate with one of the existing Affiliate systems out there…. that would be a killer feature!
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Merav Knafo
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I’ll make a note of it Ghazaly!
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Gh
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Thanks Merav!
Another thing that I would like to have a is a promo/coupon code (e.g. 50% discount) that is applicable to all of the courses that I have. However, I want to allow each user to be able to use the coupon only once. Total usage of the coupon is unlimited on any course (i.e. unlimited number of users, but each user can only use it once).
I believe this feature is currently not available, right? To me this should be a basic feature for the “Promo Codes” feature don’t you think? I’m sure your team can whip this up in a moment and have it appear in the next point update… 😉
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alex
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thank you for update.but in digistore guru light still in version 4.0.12 and not updated.
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Merav Knafo
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Alex, that is correct, it will take us a few more days to finish the light version
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alex
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thank you very much Merav.
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Merav Knafo
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Hi Alex, Guru 5 light was released!
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Torgrim Sandvoll
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What integrations does Guru 5 have? EasySocial? JomSocial? EasyBlog? AcyMailing? EasyDiscuss and other forum extensions?
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Merav Knafo
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Hi Torgrim, JomSocial and Kunena are both integrated, check out these articles:
https://www.jomsocial.com/blog/jomsocial-guru-integration-4-plugins-available
https://guru.ijoomla.com/blog/entry/new-feature-kunena-forum-integration-comments
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Jan
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Hello, same question, its a great release a should be compatible with all other great extension as acymailing jcomment easydiscuss .. You should know that many and many of your clients arr frustrated with this limitation with jomsocial and kunena. Clients must have choice to choose between their preferee extensions. Thats my point of view as client 🙂
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Merav Knafo
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We are actually planning our own commenting system, so please stay tuned!
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Jan
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Why invite new solutions when a very strong and popular ones exists .. Not fair play, i understand now why you wrote the joomla end article !
Merav Knafo
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Jan, every time we develop integration with other solutions we are dependent on them. If they make changes everything falls apart. Sometimes it makes a lot of sense and sometimes it makes more sense to simply do it ourselves, because it’s not a very difficult task and it will be easier to maintain long term. Also, if any of these extensions go out of business, you will be safe. I hope it makes sense.
David
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Looks great but I can’t use any LMS without having SCORM compliance.
Is this anywhere near?
Cheers
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Merav Knafo
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Hi David, unfortunately implementing SCORM will take a very long time and will stop us from doing all the other stuff we want to do (new features), so we’ve put it aside at this time.
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Yours
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Great release but we still far from other LMS even on wordpress, please check this one, perhaps’one day we can get a similar one :
http://themeforest.net/item/wplms-learning-management-system/6780226?s_rank=60
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Merav Knafo
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It’s a very nice set up that’s built with MANY different plugins to make it all work. I looked at their features and I see that we have 99% of their features and then some. We are missing ratings and reviews and that’s next on our plate. If you see anything else that’s missing, please write a reply and let me know.
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alex
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is any program to integration with jcomment ?thank you
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Merav Knafo
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Hi Alex, we will be adding our own commenting system on the next version 🙂
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Namy
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Next year 🙂
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Merav Knafo
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Before hopefully 🙂
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