Exciting MVA Improvements now live!

For 2013, we have some new innovations on Microsoft Virtual Academy we just rolled out:

  • New Top Students of the Week /Month
  • New MVA Video Experience ready for feedback
  • Expanded RSS feeds to keep up on new courses and live events

Top Students of the Week /Month
Some of you may have noticed our new Top Students home page banner now features weekly and monthly point leaders for both your local market and globally. This was done based on member feedback asking for more ways for recent member accomplishments to be featured more often. We have also updated the Top Students leader board so you can compare yourself to top students in your country by week, by month or by all-time. We hope this allows more amazing MVA members all over the world to be featured.

New MVA Video Experience

We are also continuing to improve the site experience. Our goal is to make it easier to find and experience the courses that are important to you and give you new ways to share and compare your progress.

This week we launch a totally new MVA video experience we would love for you to try. This is designed to make it easier to navigate a course, skim the various course modules, find supplementary materials and take self-assessments.

We want your voice involved as we improve the MVA experience. Please try this new MVA video experience by taking one of our recorded Jump Starts here and send us your feedback to “Tell The Dean”. Tell us what you like and more importantly what we need to improve before we roll this out for all courses.

Improved Course Description Pages
To make courses easier to read and discover, we have revamped the course description pages to make course and module descriptions easier to read.

New expanded RSS feeds
In order to provide more ways to discover what is new on MVA, we have expanded RSS feeds for members on the:

  • Most popular courses,
  • New live Jump Start events you can attend
  • And new recorded Jump Starts you may have missed

You can check these out on the home page and our new Jump Start section.

Thanks for your terrific support of Microsoft Virtual Academy and we look forward to sharing more exciting innovations over the coming months.